[jaclaz]

FaceMouth said:

If I'm going ot spend money on something to repair a disk, it may as well be something designed for hte task.

Well, it is your money, but a rapid google search would show you that a small (8 oz - 236 ml) can of Brasso can be bought for US$4.29 or a 150 ml one goes for GB£2.09
http://www.shop.com/op/~76523_8_OZ_BRASSO_...814?xit_recom=1
http://www.britsuper...log/Brasso.html

(and it can usually be fond at the grocery around the corner)

A CD polishing paste, (first one I found):
http://www.gadgetsuk...te-p-17150.html
costs

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Price: £6.95 (€ 9.73)

for a really tiny tube.

...and with Brasso you can also polish all your other metal or plastic hardware, or repair CD's for all your lifetime, that of your sons, of your nephews, and all other future descendants ....

jaclaz

[an_talpur]

nice tweak dere ..

[Andromeda43]

I'll second this one......

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Or a comercial product that comes in 3 grades of coarseness.

http://www.modernpla...sticpolish.html

I bought this product, all three grades, at a Computer Show,
after I'd seen it demonstrated.

It not only polishes scratches out of CD's, but it did a nice job
of removing the road haze from my plastic headlight lenses on
my car. It works pretty well on scratched sunglasses too.

Good Luck,
Andromeda43

[lex89]

The only way your saliva would break down the cd is if the cd was made from bread. The enzymes in your saliva turn starch into sugar and that's about it.


I'm taking an anatomy class and we're at the digestive system atm

[skywalka]

http://www.om3ga.co....-cds-no-problem

[Freakboyza]

Great info, thanx.

[Hachiman]

old tip. been doin this for years. works 98% of the time. in my experience, the rougher the paste, the better.

[FaceMouth]

Well, haven't been here in forever, so I figured since this is one of my first posts, it would be fitting to add a new reply here. I have 2 new methods for repair (untested). First one is furniture polish, such as Pledge. The second is to use floor wax which is supposed to actually resurface (or fill in cracks) on the disk. Again I have not tried these, so it's at the users risk. good to be back, hopefully I won't drift away again for several months.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

I will vouge for pledge!!!

[neo656]

jaclaz, on Sep 16 2005, 03:22 PM, said:

There is also a "last resort" technique, really only useful to salvage data from a badly scratched CD, that will be thrown away afterwards.

The real problem with scratches is the "sides" of them that "confuse" the reader, by polishng as detailed above, you flatten the scratch, but sometimes the scratch is so deep that it is impossible to do that, so there is this other way, FILL the scratch with a transparent material.

Two candidates:
1) Car WAX
2) Car glass (windshield) silicon/teflon based spray coating

Of course you need to WAIT until the product has completely dried off, BEFORE polishing the CD with a cloth and insering it in the drive.

jaclaz

thnx man.... gr8 tip.....really saved a several cds i was gonna throw.....

[efrain]

Thanks for the Tip!!!