I WILL USE GOOGLE BEFORE I ASK QUESTIONS ON HONDASWAP.COM
I WILL USE GOOGLE BEFORE I ASK QUESTIONS ON HONDASWAP.COM
I WILL USE GOOGLE BEFORE I ASK QUESTIONS ON HONDASWAP.COM
I WILL USE GOOGLE BEFORE I ASK QUESTIONS ON HONDASWAP.COM
I WILL USE GOOGLE BEFORE I ASK QUESTIONS ON HONDASWAP.COM
I WILL USE GOOGLE BEFORE I ASK QUESTIONS ON HONDASWAP.COM
I WILL USE GOOGLE BEFORE I ASK QUESTIONS ON HONDASWAP.COM
I WILL USE GOOGLE BEFORE I ASK QUESTIONS ON HONDASWAP.COM
I WILL USE GOOGLE BEFORE I ASK QUESTIONS ON HONDASWAP.COM
I WILL USE GOOGLE BEFORE I ASK QUESTIONS ON HONDASWAP.COM
straight from a UK website, here is step by step instructions on how to do it:
2. Equipment you may need
The equipment mentioned on this site include a selection from:
Soft cloth
spectacle lens cloth, or if you've got nothing else, soft tissue/kitchen paper will do fine. Just make sure whatever you use is clean.
Rough cloth
The best I've had experience with is an old sock. It doesn't want to be too rough, cotton cloths like T-shirt material is good. Good for working out those deeper scratches.
Toothpaste
Yep, no joke, ordinary toothpaste. Contains small bits of grit to help work away scratches. It's not a good idea to use any kind of harsh toothpaste.
Brasso/metal polish
A bit finer than toothpaste, so you can finish off your CDs with this.
Vaseline
Petroleum jelly to fill in remaining scratches to reduce diffraction. This really does work.
And well, that's about the main of it. I'm sure you can find alternatives (or extra things) if you don't have any of those things.
Find a table or similar flat steady surface.
Put a tablecloth over it, or lay some soft tissue down, and make sure the surface is clean. Yes, little bits of dried cornflakes can scratch CDs.
Lay the CD silver side up on the soft surface.
Make sure the CD surface is clean by using wet tissue paper or baby wipes, wiping in straight lines from the inside of the disc to the outside. (BTW, this cleaning may make your CD work now if it was just dust/dirt causing the problem). I heard somewhere that some solvents can damage the CD, but I never had any problems with metholated spirits. However, wet tissue works well anyway.
4. Finally...the step where you actually do something
Ok, so you want to get rid of that scratch you made when you dropped your sister's Spice Girls CD (even though you do try to convince her that the skipping actually improves the track).
So, if you've got this far you should have read the short but important preparation section. Now, to get started on that scratch.
1) Find the scratches. If its not obvious then follow this step. Hold the CD to the light so you can all those little scratches on the surface clearly. The sort of scratches that you're looking for are those deep enough to be easily noticeable and often run in the direction with the track on the surface (parallel to outside edge of CD). If the disc has taken on a cloudy appearance cause by many fine scratches follow the next steps using only a smooth cloth (unless the scratches just aren't shifting) and rubbing across the sections of scratches, working in straight paths from the centre.
Try to estimate through use of the CD where the scratches are likely to be (i.e. If the skipping of an audio CD is in the first couple of tracks, or the game can't get past the loading stage etc. then look for scratches in the centre of the disc). Now you've found what scratches you are going to deal with, move on to the next stage.
2) Get a small amount of toothpaste on the rough cloth (if the crack is not very deep then the smooth cloth might do)
3) Rub the cloth firmly over the scratch. This needs to be firm enough as you feel is appropriate for the severity of the scratch. However, if you rub too hard you thumb will hurt to much to continue long enough to achieve anything, and if you rub too lightly then you'll be there all day. This may take a few minutes depending on the scratch, just keep topping up with a little toothpaste (not too much or there'll be no friction). New scratches may appear as you are rubbing, but as long as they'll only light scratches this won't matter, and we'll be smoothing these off later. When the scratch has nearly gone, or doesn't seem to be getting better, move on to the next step.
4) If you used a rough cloth for the last step, move on to using the smooth cloth. Just do what you did before, until you're bored or too tired to continue. Clean with water and tissue. Then move on to using the soft cloth with some metal polish like brasso. This should smooth out some of the extras scratches you made, but may not be noticeable, so just work at that for a few minutes.
5) Next, clean the CD again using water. Then get a small amount of Vaseline on the end of your (clean) finger, and smooth across the scratch, rubbing it in a bit. It may help just going over any other scratched regions you see on the CD like this, as it will improve reading of your CD,
especially on a console with a weaker laser like the PlayStation. Using some tissue or soft cloth rub the Vaseline off of the CD (in straight paths from the centre). Do not do this too vigorously or the Vaseline will be rubbed out of the scratches.
Now to test your CD. If it still doesn't work, try again from step 2).
If it does work, congratulations. You've just saved your CD. And it cost you nearly nothing.