Fixing CD scratches...Anybody Willing To Try This Out?

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creepindeth04

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As the CD's contents are preserved, a scratched CD can be recovered by polishing its plastic surface. If, after carrying out the above cleansing, the CD persists in giving reading errors, just polish the CD with toothpaste. That's right, toothpaste. It works wonders, and you won't spend a fortune buying professional cleaning kits. Polish the scratches with a cotton swab, rubbing gently the paste-imbued swab over the scratches until they disappear or until you notice that you have removed them as far as possible. Sometimes the paste may cause new scratching, but it will be merely superficial and easily removed. After clearing the scratches, wash the CD in water.

If there are still scratches that the toothpaste has not managed to removed, use a metal polish (Brasso) in the same way as described above. Finally, rub Vaseline on the CD, very gently (do not press hard), from moving out from the centre to the rim.
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I know Brasso will work but I dont know about toothpaste. If anybody tries it out, let us know if it works.

Source: Hardwaresecrets.com
 
Yes, I would use it. I don't use the cotton swab. Use a soft cloth that doesn't have particles that come off of it. Like something you use for cleaning eyeglasses. Also, when it says wash it off with water, don't rinse it under the tap, use the same cloth to wipe it down.
 
Ya it works, I had friends that used it for an SSB:M disc. Except the instructions they found told them to hold the disc in the toilet and flush (presumably as a joking way of saying "rinse it") and they took it literally and actually held it in the toilet with their hands and flushed it. :lol

It worked, so whatever I guess...
 
Cool, but Im still wondering how regular toothpaste works. It's opaque. They use this stuff to fix holes in the walls like spackle, so how can it let a laser light through? Or am I overlooking the obvious?
 
It's used the same way aluminum polish works on wheels. The polish gets rubbed into the surface of the metal, stripping off any dirt and debris. Then it's wiped off the wheel, leaving a clean surface. Toothpaste works the same way. It doesn't fix the scratches by filling them in, it just takes any trapped dirt and debris that would cause the laser to deflect. It looks like the scratches are gone, but they are just cleaned out.

Make sense??
 
Dart said:
It's used the same way aluminum polish works on wheels. The polish gets rubbed into the surface of the metal, stripping off any dirt and debris. Then it's wiped off the wheel, leaving a clean surface. Toothpaste works the same way. It doesn't fix the scratches by filling them in, it just takes any trapped dirt and debris that would cause the laser to deflect. It looks like the scratches are gone, but they are just cleaned out.

Make sense??
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That does make sense but the article made it seem that it did fill them in. Or maybe I just read it wrong.
 
Nah. The author probably didn't know that little piece of information. It's common for people to think of toothpaste as a filler because you can use toothpaste to fill holes in drywall.
 
Dart said:
Nah. The author probably didn't know that little piece of information. It's common for people to think of toothpaste as a filler because you can use toothpaste to fill holes in drywall.
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Next thing you know, your walls have minty-fresh breath.
 
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