regalma1;182600 Wrote: > I find that Brasso and other polishing compounds helps with the lighter > scratches, but have not had any luck with the deep ones. I've also > tried Plexus which fills in scratches in polycarbonate. Again, no luck > with the deeper scratches. > > The most luck I've had with the deeper scratches is ripping with > dbPowerAmp and just letting it work away, sometimes for hours ripping > one CD. > > I've even tried various grades of sandpaper. Polycarbonate is tough > stuff.
I use a commercial (and cheap!) CD repair kit on scratched discs. It comes with a buffing compound just like Brasso. Even looks like Brasso although it doesn't have that solvent smell. The kit comes with what I think is 1200 grit wet-dry sandpaper. Use it wet. Works great, but requires a LOT of force in the buffing step, which you go through after you "level" deep scratches with the sandpaper. Just buffing is not enough - in my experience if a scratch is deep enough to cause read errors it must be worked with the sandpaper. Buffing without sanding first doesn't always work. I have never encountered a disc I couldn't fix to AccurateRip bit-perfect status with enough work. -- Mark Lanctot "It's like, you know, a New Age religion, but with better treble response." - Jon Heal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32993 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
