World's Crappiest Drives (was Re: A&J Microdrive)

From: Jeffrey l Kaneko <jeff.kaneko_at_juno.com>
Date: Thu Dec 7 12:38:59 2000

On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:16:09 -0500 Brian Harrington
<brian_at_sigh.mse.jhu.edu> writes:
> --On Thursday, December 7, 2000 8:47 AM -0800 Sellam Ismail
> <foo_at_siconic.com> wrote:
>
> > Speaking of a witch, what's that method I heard about a long time
> > ago whereby you can sand out the scratches on a music CD to make it
> > not skip anymore? Something about using a real fine abrasive
element?
> >
> > Is this possible? One of my favourite CDs skips terribly on one
> > track and it really pisses me off, especially when I'm supposed to be

> > mellowing out.
>
> Toothpaste, believe it or not, works wonders. I've used regular
> Crest on a couple of occasions to salvage CDs that got caught when the
> tray closed.

I've used furniture wax way back when-- I was able to read unreadable
CD-ROM's after spraying and polishing. Don't know how well this
works on audio CD's.


Jeff


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