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Can anybody recommend a safe, trustworthy place/business/home address for me to send a DVD or CD disc where it can be "de-scratchified"?
I have certain messed-up discs that are in serious need of repair, and all my efforts to "do-it-myself" have FAILED.
Thank you so much for any help.
-Hukk
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I have had some near impossible to use Cds i forced a copy uning individual tracks, one at a time.
If you just try to image the whole disc, sometimes it fails.
Anyway, i make a CD-R copy and keep the original around too.
I just made a pair of CD-r for Stereolab ABC live at the BBC due to the used discs having a problem.
What methods have you attempted so far?
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Ken Newton
-- Cleaning with MoFi Shine-Ola
-- Aggressive radial-direction rubbing with car polish and micro-fiber car waxing cloth pad
- Same with soap and water
Try some toothpaste. It almost always works for me.
I own a VenMill Skip-Away disc repair machine and it works really well. The machine heats the disc up before polishing it. The cost is maybe a little less than a dollar a disc depending on the length of repair. If the disc is really deeply scratched though you are probably better off just replacing it. Also there is no machine that can fix disc rot. But It will make a lightly scratched CD look like new. It can also make a CD with deeper scratches stop skipping. But the deeper the scratch the more material needs to be removed.
Universal CD/DVD Repair Machine. It will run you $125 to $150 and is really considered to be just a light use model, the real professional machines run several hundred dollars. Stay away from all the el-cheapo models sold in big box stores for less than a hundred dollars. They break very quickly and will just end up costing you more dollars per disc to repair than if you had gone with the better model to begin with. Even with the JFJ machine it is going to cost around $1 per disc in materials and life of the machine to repair each scratched CD disc.
Link to JFJ Easy Pro on Amazon;
Hukk
The only immediate help that I can offer is to the link below.
Thanks for remembering my old post- I have found the Meguiars polish/ WD-40 scheme to work with even VERY badly scratched discs. One followup suggested the WD-40 dried out rather quickly, so get a nice thin glaze on the disc and burn a copy right away.
I'll give that a try. I can use it on my Lincoln Mark VIII too!
Dave
Cheers,
Hukk
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