I've modified my metal boxes (after my M CD cracked in half) by sticking
the plastic from a normal jewlcase inside.
After my M CD cracked, I wrote an email to Hardwax, that they should do
something about the desing, and they sent me a new copy for free :)
Jernej
www.octex.si
theREALmxyzptlk wrote:
That could well be the case, but I burned cdrs from my copies right
after I got them and played those, especially when traveling. When I
heard people had cracked discs, I checked my own and three of them were
cracked. None of them were even opened more than a few times.
Chain Reaction figured it out and moved to the uglier 'soft covers'
eventually. And I can't find a few of the CDs I have sitting in stacks
of slimlines.
The notion of a CD banging around on bare metal as packaging always
seemed just this side of the legendary Durutti Column LP that used
sandpaper for the jacket. Interesting aesthetically, but a tad shy on
the function meter (unless you hate Vini Reilly)
jeff
Not that it's either here nor there, but I don't think that at normal
temps, the difference between the expansion rate of stamp metal and
whatever plastic they make CDs from differs that much.
I think it's as much the fact that a plastic CD case's spindle-holder
is made of plastic that bows in when you push on the CD, then pops
back out so that a little lip on each tine of the spindle-thingie
keeps the CD in place. There is little or no outward force on the hole
in the CD.
