Admittedly, 3M polish is not necessarily a green product, it is after all synthetic in its basic composition, but you will need only a dab and quite frankly, there is no natural product that will even come close to the power of this stuff when it comes to resurfacing a badly scratched CD.
The experts tell you to always polish in a straight line from the radius of the center to the outside, rather than polish in circles. While this is good advice for the most part, since small circular scratches have been known to throw off the laser tracking system of a player, most tracking systems today are far superior to the ones we remember from the 90's.
So, if you are willing to let the rubbing compound breakdown to its final stages, circle polishing can work well too. When I refer to letting the rubbing compound breakdown, I am saying the rubbing compound formula essentially contains a grit that is designed to scratch the surface you are polishing, and wear down the deeper scratches until they are closer to the same height as the rest of the CD.
It does this by starting out with a heavy grit, which breaks down over the polishing course into finer and finer grit, until it eventually leaves a mirror polished surface. But this is only if you put enough elbow grease into it. I have found that circular polishing works just as well as radius polishing, but you can follow whatever advice you like, as this is simply a matter of opinion and personal experience. But what if you need to fix a CD right away and don't want to travel out to your nearest store to grab a bottle of polish, in such a case, toothpaste works reasonably well too.
Toothpaste is designed much the same way as a rubbing compound, in that it is manufactured with a gritty substance, which gently scratches the enamel on the teeth, to clean and polish them.
It can offer your CDs the same service, albeit not to quite the extend as the polish, but if the scratches are not too bad, it may just do the job. Start with the most simple toothpaste you can find. I personally like Tom's of Maine Natural Toothpaste as it contains a basic enamel polish, without all the fancy gels, swirls, glitter, and bubble gum flavors.
All you want is a good old fashioned white toothpaste. There is no need for frills here. Squeeze a smidgen of paste on the CD and rub it in using a straight sweeping motion with your finger from the center radius of the CD to the outside. Work your way around the CD using this motion until the CD is completely covered with a thin layer of the toothpaste. If the CD is badly scratched, you may want to rub the toothpaste around the radius of the circle several times. Once finished, let the toothpaste dry to the touch.
Hold the CD under your sink with running water and gently rub the tooth paste off. When satisfied with the cleanliness of the CD, gently dry it with a clean, soft cloth. Call around to the ones in your area. I should say the max number of attempts at a place with a low-end buffing machine was about 4 passes, but that still left about 3 tracks of a 12 track disk unrippable without errors and many similar disks were rippable, but with questionable accuracy. I stand corrected Bottom scratches can be buffed out.
Joined Jun 22, Posts 5 Likes 0. Sometimes scratches in the protective layer on the bottom of the CD can cause problems reading the data layer. If this is the case, polishing can solve these problems. If the data layer itself is damaged, then no, polishing won't help. Fitz Headphoneus Supremus. Joined Nov 12, Posts 7, Likes Sure you can make it look better but do you believe that random coarse buffing would fix serious read errors?!
Joined Mar 24, Posts 2, Likes Normal scratches on the bottom do no damage to the data layer, which is why the disc can be polished or resurfaced to improve readability.
Joined Sep 18, Posts Likes Sovkiller Proved that despite its huge size the CD can be shoved down one's throat. Joined Jul 31, Posts 12, Likes There are a few companies that resurface Cds fro under 3. Try here. Joined Aug 28, Posts 1, Likes Meguair's Plastic Polish and Cleaner. Get it at the hardware store. KeninDC , Oct 4, GerryO and Dynamic Ranger like this. Location: South Florida. It's been a while since I've used them; but, they always did a good job. JPagan , Oct 4, Location: The ATX.
Rubbing the disc on your jeans often does the trick. I've had good results using toothpaste on pretty nasty scratches. Always rub from center to edge, don't circle. Just a pea size dab will do. I rinse the disc first, rub the paste on with a cotton wool ball, rinse off - I don't let it sit with the toothpaste on, I don't quite see the rationale for this as it's the abrasion that you want. Aesthetically, the disc will look like crap afterwards insert joke about "minty condition" here but it seems to remove the micro-debris that causes the problems.
I've tried the game stores near me and none offer disc resurfacing any more. I sent a disc to a mail in service and it wasn't worth the effort, it came back practically indistinguishable from how it looked, still skipping. Oh, and I picked up one of those Disc Doctor devices at an estate sale and didn't get good results with that - it marked the surface without fixing the skipping. I don't really care about the appearance of problematic discs, just their playability, so the toothpaste technique works for me.
Location: Devon, UK. I've had several discs resurfaced. It generally works unless it's a deep gouge causing the problem. And the discs usually look pretty good. And for cheap discs I just want to get working the toothpaste method has worked loads of times. As others have said, as long as you rub in straight lines from hub to edge and wash it off in a few minutes it can yield great results.
It does make the disc look cloudy and smeared though. But apart from with very deep gouges it's worked.
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