What are the Fire Risks of Burning a CD?

I just throw them in the wood stove, they burn real good.

You would be safer to deep fry a turkey in your living room than to burn a CD in it. Unless you are facing foreclosure and want to get out of your current mortgage. ;)

Remove tongue from inside of cheek! (and preclude the yanking of limbs)

Wrap the CD burner in plastic and secure it with packaging tape.

Put it in the bathtub and submerge it in water.

Now you can burn CDs all day long with no worry of fire.

When you get through the water should be warm enough to bathe in.

Please note: I have not tried this yet, it's just my theory.

Lewis.

Absolutely. Keep it outside, build a concrete bunker around it and run 12" plumbing to a nearby million gallon water tank to dowse the inevitable fireball, just like everybody else does.

I have a CD on my desk here that I popped in the Microwave. It would make a good background for a clock. I wouldn't worry too much about a modern CD burner since new rules require the units to now regulate the laser power instead of the full ten megawatts on and off like the older burners.

TDD

No, no, no. Wrap the CD itself in tinfoil. That's all that is necessary.

What he should worry about is an email marked "Olympic Torch." If you open it, it will unfold a torch that will set fire to your hard drive. I got an email warning me.

After making your CD, put it in the microwave for four seconds to make the recording permanent. It will be there for life, never degrading.

Steve