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RE: CD/ disc scratch repair (not sure if right forum)

I'm sure, than, you are aquainted with something called an 'optical flat'. We used it to maintain FLATNESS of certain tooling. Putting the flat on a surface and illuminating with a monochromatic light produced an interference pattern. From this you could determine flatness of the inspected object.
The reason I bring this up? I'll bet $$ that a CD is 'specified' as having a certain surface flatness.
The lens which focuses on the 'pits' has an extremely SHORT depth of field which renders a few of the explanations I've heard for some 'digital problems' absolutely moot.

Now that I think about it, I wish I could still get at some of the goodies I USED to have routine access to. A Macbeth densitometer? Surface Profiler? Optical flat? Even a good 'scope, both micro and oscillo.
Those were the days!


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