Cover Discs.

I have about 50 old cover discs - CDs & DVDs.
I have copied the few software programs I would like to keep.
Does anyone have any suggestions (creative or not) what to do with the old discs? Or should I just dumped them?

 

Assuming you don't want to use them as working discs any more... Hang them from string in your garden. The sun catches them and not only is it pretty, it scares the birds away from your vegetables. If you really get into it, you can glue pieces of glass or glitter to them or paint them. They also work as garden markers when you plant, just write on them with a Sharpie.

You could always glue them together overlapping in a circle, add a bow, and end up with a festive holiday wreath. You can also cut them up and glue them to glass balls, or just paint/decorate them as they are, to make ornaments for the tree. Or, cut up, you can decorate pretty much anything with them to give stuff a mirror/mosaic type look.

 

Thank you!
I'll visit my artistic friend tomorrow for some assistance.

 

I used to get some clear Silastic and glue them together in pairs, labels to labels on top of each other, then when dry use them as drinks coasters. The double thickness makes them less likely to blow away when you use them outside on the patio. If you want more weight then glue three or four together.

One of my friends lives in the mountains and he has a long, narrow, steep and very twisty driveway. His whole property is completely enclosed by trees and his drive is cut into the side of the mountain and you drive completely hidden from view under the foliage of the trees. He uses CDs nailed to tree trunks or wooden posts hammered in the ground to mark both the edges of the driveway so it is more visible on dark foggy nights. His system uses two of the silver coloured CDs mounted vertically (touching each other) on every tree or post to mark the left side and just a single gold coloured CD on each tree or post to mark the right side of the drive. He hatched this plan after my wife drove our car off the edge of his driveway and dropped two wheels into the three foot deep drainage ditch to the left of the driveway requiring a tow truck to be called to the middle of nowhere at 11:00pm to tow her out as the car was completely blocking the driveway and couldn't be pushed forward or back. To give my wife some credit the ditches on the left and the right are only 2 feet wide at the top but about 3 feet deep and they can't be clearly seen because there is long dense grass inside both of the drains which is trimmed to the same level as the driveway so it was especially hard at night for her to judge the edges of the drive when she was reversing down the driveway. The CDs as reflectors work very well and if they break or lose their shiny coating my friend has plenty more to nail up

 

I tend to be a hoarder when it comes to software media. When I "retire" something I just put it on a spindle and store it . . . I've got software from 1997 I transferred from floppy's onto CD/DVD media, lol. They don't take up a lot of room, and you never know when an archived bit of software might come in handy . . . but then I do work on a lot of old equipment. I use dud CD/DVD's as coasters in my Den/Basement lair.

I am keenly aware of the possibility I may someday appear on an episode of the show Hoarders, or that I will make national news: "Man crushed by wall of antique electronics . . . film at 11:00"

 

Here's an image I got from my friend.

 

A shotgun and a target launcher.

 

What is the best way to do this? CDs & DVDs are brittle and quit tough.
Will a Stanley knife and a Steel ruler suffice?

Also, what's the best way to drill a hole in them?

 

I have cut them up with big sturdy garden scissors but any strong scissor or maybe try tin snips.

To drill a hole stick masking tape over the area where you want to drill the hole (tape needs to be bigger than hole size) then drill with ordinary drill at high speed. I drilled 2mm holes in the top and bottom edges so my daughter could make a wind mobile for a school project. I used a battery drill on the fastest speed and didn't press too hard when drilling. After drilling peel off the tape and jobs done.

 

Thanks Pete.
Next week my friend and I'll get busy.

 

Eldon....what did you decide to do with those disks?

 

I gave them to my friend.
But she's busy painting acrylic butterflies - someone ordered a lot of them.