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Brookstone (In Peterborough, NH) sells a product called Mirror Glaze which
is a two step process.  It does a great job removing scratches etc from
all sorts of plastics.

You'll have to order it direct since they don't sell it in their stores
(at least I've never seen it).

Their telephone number is 603-924-9511 or 9541

Steve

You can get Mirror Glaze at most airports.  It was developed for taking
small scratches out of plexiglass canopies.  I wouldn't use it on a CD unless
(a) the scratch was causing the player to mis-track and (b) there was no
possibility of returning the disc.  Remember: always wipe on the radius
of the disc...
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re .1: I don't know about "out east" but Brookstone has opened up mall stores
in the Chicago area. they don't carry everything listed in the catalog, but
when I inquired about a specific item, they said that I could order it from
the catalog, or that they could place a catalog order for me.

Re: .3

Brookstone has one of the fastest shipping departments I've seen.  They
claim to ship everything within 3-4 hours of receiving the order.

Steve

  
  back to scratches...

  I read somewhere about using toothpaste!!  not sure if it was in this
  notesfile or in a magazine..

There is a Brookstone store in the Mall of N.H.
Toothpaste was in this notes file somewhere.

Being the author of the earlier note on toothpaste, I will repeat it here.

This method was used on a disk which was inadvertently dinged, causing a one 
minute loss of tracking, hence was useless. Also the ding was on the only 
track which I did not particularly care for. The point is that, as long as no 
other damage was done, I didn't care wildly if it worked or not.

The proceedure:

1) Coat a Q tip with toothpaste.
2) Working radially, polish LIGHTLY for a few seconds.
3) Rinse with clean, cool water.
4) Dry (radially) with lintfree cloths.
5) Play, if skipping still occurs, repeat from #2.

		Good Luck,
				Bruce

    A couple of my CDs have become scratched.  They play to a certain point
    and then either skip around wildly, or simply stop.  Has the technology
    for resurfacing scratched discs advanced in the last year and a half
    beyond what is described in this note (i.e. gleem)?  I have not seen
    other mention of this problem in other notes in this file.  Of course,
    part of the problem is my D7... but that's another story. 

    Consumer Reports found that Rally car wax worked just fine.
    				Steve

  I've used car wax (brand X, not Rally) to repair a scratched CD. It worked
  perfectly. I tried the toothpaste method first, and it failed.

  Tom

    I was at the Nashua Public Library listening to some of their
    collection of CD's the other day.  I was shocked to see the scratches
    and fingerprints on most of the disc's had no effect on the playing.
    Some of these disc's looked like the had been through a war, but
    they still played fine.  Why???
    

    Re: .11
    
    It's because most of those fingerprints and scratches are not in
    focus at the information layer.  This was a deliberate part of
    the CD design.  Still, if the scratches are severe, then some
    players (particularly older ones) will have trouble.
    
    					Steve

    
    The Nashua library only has ONE bad CD.  It clearly has a 1mm circular
    chip in the aluminum layer.  That's about 1 bad in over 200 CD!
    I can only image the abuse these CDs must take each day.
    
    
    						-Paul