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Toothpaste and DVDs...
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In your attic.
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Baninated
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Your username is spelled wrong. Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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This is actually old news. Toothpaste or Turtle Wax have been staples in resurrecting CDs for ages. That the same techniques could polish out or fill in scratches on DVDs is not terribly amazing.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Yamanashi, Japan
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I used toothpaste to fill in holes in my dorm room wall, all those years ago.
Also, old DVDs (or AOL CDs) make great microwave art.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: 46 & 2
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Turtle Wax is the best on discs, it's worked for me every time.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Isle of Manhattan
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Geez, and I've been using 200 grit sandpaper all this time. No wonder my dvds skip. lol
good tip on the toothpaste and turtle wax though.
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"Faster, faster! 'Till the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." - HST
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Anson, TX
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i've used brasso to resurrect a badly damaged CD before...I wouldn't recommend it for regular use as it took quite a bit of material off of the disc. It did help recover the data though...
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: UKland
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Toothpaste saved my old retail Tiger install dvd. phew.
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This space for Hire! Reasonable rates. Reach an audience of literally dozens!
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In your attic.
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Originally Posted by ghporter 
This is actually old news. Toothpaste or Turtle Wax have been staples in resurrecting CDs for ages.
Well excusssse ****ing me for myself and the chick in the clip for being the only ones in the world not to know.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Geeeeezzzzz! I guess I was more curt than I meant to be. I actually HAVE been using both techniques for many years, and it's the kind of stuff that used to be pretty easily found on the Internet when you searched for "scratched CD." Of course we're talking about more than 10 years ago, and the whole world, especially the Internet, has changed.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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