Cd Oxidation

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wiepie
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Cd Oxidation

Post by wiepie »

Not sure if this is the right place to post but here goes:

I'm in the process of buying a pretty rare silver bootleg now it turns out the cd has oxidation.
Now I'm a collector for some years now but I never heard of this.
Who in here knows what it is, or if there's something I can do about this.

I've not seen the cd so I don't know how bad it is, the seller told me the cd skips...

Ofcourse I don't have to pay full price but I just want to know if it's worth getting...

Thanks

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jarrur
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Re: Cd Oxidation

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I believe it's also knows as CD Rot
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Re: Cd Oxidation

Post by Thierry »

I've had a couple of CD/DVD's with this problem, I simply cleaned them with hairspray and they've worked fine since then.