Brasso metal polish for scratched disks?

[motherx3]

Somewhere I read you can clean disks with Brasso metal polish. If anyone knows the steps to use to do it, can you please let me know. I have a couple of disks I can't back up and that is the only thing I haven't tried yet. Sorry if this is in the wrong area. Thanks

[jm1647]

Somewhere I read you can clean disks with Brasso metal polish. If anyone knows the steps to use to do it, can you please let me know. I have a couple of disks I can't back up and that is the only thing I haven't tried yet. Sorry if this is in the wrong area. Thanks

Rub radially from the center out. I don't know about the other additives but
it is an abrasive and would remove scratches, you could try it out on a burned dvd of no value to you and see if it works. It was posted here someone used car rubbing compound and a floor polisher and that worked too. I might try it with a car buffer next time I have a real bad media and try it out.

Store have media machines that clean up cd and dvd's and must use something along these lines.

[tigerman8u]

brasso or a car polish without any abrasives does work at times. If you use the toothpaste way don't use a toothpaste with an abrasive. I found out the hard/expensive way.

[kazaray72]

i have used gumption with a flanel and rubbed in round i had no errors after that burnt the movie no problems just use a little gumption its only a couple of dollars with a little water it realy does the trick.

[jmet]

You can try toothpaste to lessen the severity of scratches.

Yep, just put a small dab directly onto the scratch, use the traditional white variety not the clear gel type. I then use a soft tissue wipe gently in only a radial direction (a straight line between the hub and the rim). Since the data is arranged circularly on the disc, the micro scratches you create when cleaning the disc (or the nasty gouge you make with the dirt you didn't see on your cleaning cloth) will cross more error correction blocks and be less likely to cause unrecoverable errors.

If you continue to have problems after cleaning the disc, you may need to attempt to repair one or more scratches. Sometimes even hairline scratches can cause errors if they just happen to cover an entire error correction (ECC) block. Examine the disc to find scratches, keeping in mind that the laser reads from the bottom.

There are essentially two methods of repairing scratches:


Fill or coat the scratch with an optical material.

Polish down the scratch.
There are many commercial products that do one or both of these, or you may wish to do it yourself with polishing compounds or toothpaste. The trick is to polish out the scratch without causing new ones. A mess of small polishing scratches may cause more damage than a big scratch. As with cleaning, polish only in the radial direction. Credit: cynthia