best way to salvage scuffed cd's?

bell · bell's Garage

title says it all, i was digging through some boxes and found some of my old cd's i want to upload to my stiletto but a few have some scuffs which are making them skip etc.....
without buying a machine what is the best way to try and salvage them?

tangerine911S · 11-16-2008, 11:53 AM

toothpaste

svandamme · svandamme's Garage

ninja skills

Eric Coffey · 11-16-2008, 12:22 PM

www.auraltech.com

bell · bell's Garage

tried the toothpaste and helped a little but didn't get all the tracks.
i just tried some meguires cleaner wax and so far all but one song (the first track) is playing uninterrupted

if it plays all the way through on my comp then i'll just burn a new copy

red911sc · 01:09 PM

Somebody bought us a skip doctor a few years back. It seems to work well when the kids bring us a scratched CD or DVD.

edited - At first I wrote disc doctor but it is skip doctor...

island911 · 11-16-2008, 01:38 PM

A Dremel w/ a buffing wheel worked well for me. Just don't over-heat the surface.

Aurel · Aurel's Garage

3M rubbing compound maybe? The one we use to polish scratched paint...

Aurel

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

Turtle Wax ICE? It fixes all other problems.

SlowToady · 11-16-2008, 02:31 PM

BitTorrent

DavidI · 11-19-2008, 03:29 AM

I recently bought the new "Gears of War II" game for my son. He moved the XBox 360 console while the game was in it. The game CD was scratched badly and would not play. I took it to a local "Games 4 Less" store and had them buff it. It cost $6 and works perfect again.

David

s_wilwerding · s_wilwerding's Garage

I've found that when I receive scratched DVDs from Netflix, putting liquid hand soap on the DVD and buffing it with a cotton towel works well.

I would toothpaste would be bad because it probably adds more scratches.

Willem Fick · 11-20-2008, 07:45 AM

I have had good results from 1500 or 2000 grit wet paper with lots of very soapy water (used dishwashing detergent), followed by a fine buffing compound, and lastly eyeglass polish. Sounds severe, but there's a lot of material that can be removed before you reach the reflective surface of the CD.

john walker's workshop · 11-20-2008, 07:55 AM

i used P21S the other day, with a wad of cotton. polished it right up.

imcarthur · imcarthur's Garage

In the hifi world, a good marine acrylic boat polish is often used for CDs, DVDs, polished piano black speakers, turntable dust covers etc. Basically it works on anything with a high gloss finish.

Ian

Gogar · 11-20-2008, 08:07 AM

LimeWire.

Stanley · 11-20-2008, 08:28 AM

I've had good results with toothpaste too. I've used it 20+ times and every time the cd or dvd comes out better than before.

Heel n Toe · 11-20-2008, 09:42 AM

I have a Skip Doctor also. I know you said you didn't want to buy "a machine," and I don't know if you consider it to be one, but it has never failed to repair any CD or DVD. I have probably resurfaced about 20 discs with it so far.

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/features/hardware/doctor/

Many times, when the playing surface on a DVD from Blockbuster looks like it might cause problems, I'll run it through beforehand because I'd rather do that than get partway through watching it and have to stop and get out the Skip Doctor.

If you read customer reviews at Amazon, you'll think it may or may not be worth your money; after reading about 20 of them, I think the people who reviewed it negatively either got defective units, didn't follow the directions, had discs that had very deep scratches, or had DVD players that were overly sensitive.

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Innovations-Skipdoctor-Repair-Kit/dp/B00005B9W6

gtc · gtc's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gogar

LimeWire.

Like Bittorrent, but with 500% more RIAA goons!