Gene Poon wrote:
Norman Schwartz wrote:

IIRC during the "green pen period" another prestigious manufacturer bathed
the CD chamber with green colored illumination. Another placed a vacuum tube
within clear visibility.(For all I remember they are one and the same.)
Clocks, bricks, pucks, magnets, disc stabilizers, automobile polishes all
cater to the same mentality. Nevertheless a highly regarded manufacturer is
not supposed to stoop to such Tom Foolerary. It only serves to detract from
their credibility and hurt future sales rather than boost them.

I've used automobile polish and Armor All on CDs, as a last-ditch
attempt to be able to play a scratched and no-longer-available CD (while
making an analog tape copy of it, to save if the last-ditch attempt
succeeded). It has worked about once in four attempts,


I use a buffing wheel, and it's worked every time (fine finish polish,
no Armor All). The only time I'd expect it not to is when the scratch is so deep
it actually exposed the metal layer, or when it's a label-side scratch.



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