Cd repair

Alas, I have a few cd's with scratches on them deep enough (or oriented in the right direction) to cause skips in some of my cd players. I have used a CD Repair kit w/ a resurfacing wheel in the past, and was not terribly impressed. Some cds weren't fixed, even though the scratches weren't bad, and it made the cd look horrible. I recently heard that brasso (metal polish) works pretty well on cd scratches and scuffs. However, before I take brasso and a rag to my cd collection, I was wondering if I could get some verification from some of you guys, as to whether it works or not. Some of the rare stuff I have is quite expensive!!! So, if you could lend me your opinions and maybe the proper technique to use, I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

I was in that situation before and a friend of me told to rip the cd with the ''windows media player ''.after you rip it you have the cd in the librery play list .them i burm i cd and made a copy of that ,and you know what.it  sounds just like new .it may be work in your case

I use a service called Scratchbusters to repair my sons' PS2 discs. You just send the disc off in the post with a cheque (I think it's £3.50) and they send it back. It's worked every time so far, I assume it would work for CDs as well. Obviously there is some risk of the disc getting lost in the post...

This is what I do:

Geck0 wrote: I've also heard rumours of toothpaste doing the job, but don't quote me on that, it could be an urban legend.

I tried it once. The CD started to smell like toothpaste and the scratches were still there.

Thanks for the tips. I try some stuf on this crappy Def Lepard cd (really, 1 armed drummer ). I let you guys know what works best, and what destroys it utterly.

Well, I have some results. The Brasso works fairly well on light to light-medium scratches, the toothpaste works on light scratches. I think I'm just gonna see if we have a professional cd buffer machine at work. Those do the job anytime the actual data is not damaged. They are what services like Scratchbusters use. The bad part is that to own the cheapest kind, you can expect to shell out 1500 USD. Judging by the audio equipment thread, however, that may not be much of an impasse for some of the really core audiophiles. If work doesn't have one all I lost was Def Leppard and The Guess Who, so I'm not shedding too many tears.

Ps: They changed the formula of Brasso to make it a cream instead of a liquid. Let me tell you, it was a whole lot easier to use than old kind I had to polish my belt buckle with in ROTC.

I had a horrible scratch on a Thule album - and they are rare! So, from another forum, I tried their recommendation - car polish.