From Jon Logan Sent Wed, Jun 10th 1998, 22:53
From Jon Logan Sent Wed, Jun 10th 1998, 22:53
I imagine that anything that would change the refraction index of the plastic (i.e. wax, sanding the plastic down) would cause more problems. According to industry specs, a CD with a paper-punch sized hole in it should still play perfectly. Unfortunately, most CD players are not robust enough to extrapolate over this amount of missing data, but there are some good ones out there. A solution, then, is to buy a high quality CD player with excellent error correction. Unfortunately, this is expensive. Many home CD repair methods sound like voodoo to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong, tho! At 4:29 PM +0000 6/10/98, Ernesto Ikerd wrote: >>Can anyone advise me on getting rid of surface scratches on compact >>disks? Are there any products available or any tricks to polishing marks >>out? >> >>I made the mistake of loaning a few favourites to a friend for a party, >>only to have a couple returned unplayably scratched on the read side. >>aaargh! :-( >As bad as this sounds, I have used car wax with a %50 success rate. > >If you get that green bottle 'Turtle Wax' instant stuff that you rub on >(thinly), let dry, and rub off with a CD-cloth.. If the scratches are >bad, Ive even heard of folx using ultra-fine grit sandpaper before the >car-wax treatment but I have not been quite that brave. > >ernie > > >Ernesto Ikerd, (817) 763-4795 >Company Graphics, Dept 17 >Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircaft Systems >Fort Worth, Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jonathan Logan Work: 415 543-2800 UI Droog Home: 415 487-0424 CriticalPath, Inc. Mobile: 415 902-8079 ------------------------------------------------------------------------