finally it's a machine that does to cds what the experts on reddit think crosleys do to records
it's the claw cd dvd media destroyer by sanyo ever since recordable cds were introduced
people have been looking for ways to dispose of cds that may contain confidential information
and there are many paper shredders which have a special slot designed to accept cds and dvds
your windows vista disc look at that isn't that nice and
shiny and pretty load this into your machine
but the folks at sanyo decided that it would be a good idea to introduce a device specifically
designed for destroying cds and dvds in fact this cannot shred paper if you try to do so it will jam
i discovered that when i first got this at the thrift store and plugged it in
and the motor instantly started running at first i thought maybe the switch or the sensor inside
it was broken but when i first tried to put a cd into it the cd did run through it but along with
the cd also came out an envelope that somebody had tried to stuff into this and it got stuck
that's because this device does not actually shred the cd
into pieces instead it scratches the cd to such an extent that it's no longer readable
you can see that by this warning message on here saying do not attempt to read a
cd or dvd after it has been scratched you could damage your reading device
on the back we can see the very shiny information sticker it's model cl7 cd dvd media destroyer
it runs on 120 volts ac at 1.5 amps it's ul listed actually there's the full model number csl md120
and as it says before you use it you have to open this tray first
on the back which is where the cd comes out when it's done and actually there's a little
tab here which pops up to help support the cd so it doesn't go flopping over
i'm sure many of you are already thinking of musical artists and groups which you hold in
such high disregard that you would like to see me destroy one of their cds but i'm afraid if
justin bieber is on that list i only have him on cassette i don't have any of his cds
so my first victim will be a cd that already got destroyed accidentally i got this at the
thrift store in their bin of loose cds which they sell for half the price of cds in cases
which is good but what's not so good is that they put the price sticker directly on the top surface
of the cd and if you know anything about cds this is actually the side that's susceptible to damage
not the bottom side so as you can imagine when pulling off a price sticker that was
stuck to the top of the cd if you pull a little bit too hard it'll also pull
some of the cd material up with it rendering this cd unplayable you can see that part of the
cd totally got ripped off and now is see-through so sorry george i accidentally destroyed your cd
so i'm ready to demonstrate the claw
there's this switch on the front which you can use to either turn the motor on manually
or put it on auto which will only run when you stick in a disk i believe this device equally
damages both sides of the disk so it doesn't matter which way you put it in so here we go
and there you can see the pattern it scratched into the disc it's harder to see on this side
if i catch it in the light you can see it also scratched this side so that's what a destroyed
cd looks like and if you want to you can run a cd through multiple times
and then you get even more scratches on it but it also tends to get very flip floppy and
somewhat warped if you keep doing that
so maybe you can see how bent that disc is now
so now definitely if you try to put this in the drive it probably won't even close because it's
so bent it's like a potato chip there's a close-up view of the damage it has caused
i know it says not to but now i'm going to try to play a cd after i've destroyed
it using the claw here i have a cdr onto which i burned a copy of microsoft sam
reading the gettysburg address so i'll play it first so you can hear what it sounds like
fourSOI and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent
a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal
now okay so you can hear that works
so now it's time to destroy this very burnt looking cdr
you can see this browning at the edge it's a very old disc
and we'll see if the cd player even recognizes it as a cd after it's been destroyed so here we go
there's the destroyed cd i'll put it back into the player
close the door
it's trying
is it going to recognize the disk
now it gave up it says zero tracks if i try to play it it's not going to do anything
i'll try one more time
now it gave up again it says zero tracks
so that does prove that these scratches are enough to render
a cd unreadable there's the inside of the claw and it's as simple as it looks it just
squeezes the disc between two big rollers with a bunch of pointy metal teeth on them
and there at the bottom you can see the remnants of all the cds is destroyed in its life
now i'm going to try to operate this thing with the cover open
which may turn out to be a very bad idea so i'll stick in the disk
so when it gets past a certain point
the first sensor which detects when you put in the disk is no longer triggered
but instead it triggers this sensor at the output which keeps it running until the disk comes out
so that's the claw cd dvd media destroyer by sanyo i can't find much information about it
online except that it was introduced in 2008 and is no longer available also there's this amusing
write-up of it on woot.com where it was sold as a woot off deal at some point in the past
sometimes it's better if we don't know what happened to my dvd the claw hey
who broke my beatles album the claw the claw is the new sanyo cd dvd media destroyer designed to
make any cd or dvd unreadable the flip down catch tray holds up to 20 discs
and it permanently destroys your personal or business data
i wanted to see those files the claw hey now i don't have any evidence the claw automatic on
off operation means you don't even have to be in the room don't let them find your files that prove
you knew about all the terrible things you did for the past eight years save yourself with the claw
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