Re: [GZG] Re: Model Planets and figs

Doug Evans wrote:
> 
> Andreas wrote on 08/19/2005 02:35:38 PM:
> 
> > One thing I'd like to try is making a ringed planet.  I'd
> > toyed with using a blank CD-R -- cutting the planet in
> > half and gluing the CD-R in the middle, leaving a nice
> > shiny ring around the outside.  What else could we use?
> 
> I LOVE this! I just wish I'd kept the last bad blank we got here at
work;
> the CD doesn't get the shiny layer, just a clear disk. I'd have to try
> scratches to indicate thin rings, even twisted ones!

I have plenty of disks like this. Bulk CD-Rs often come with them
at the top and bottom of the stack. I use them as coasters.

Perhaps the foil could be removed from a blank CD-R in rings, if
it was scored around first with a compass point.

-- 
David Brewer

"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Theory of Scientific 
Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of 
facts." - P.K.Dick (from VALIS)
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