Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: CD repairs Message-ID: <2330005@otter.hpl.hp.com> Date: 25 Sep 89 12:50:34 GMT References: <8909192216.AA18618@uunet.uu.net> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 9 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: otter!dps@hplabs.hp.com (Duncan Smith) I have seen results obtained with a mild abrasive such as toothpaste. The idea is presumably that it partly fills in the scratch (Helping to eliminate discontinuities in refractive index) and partly makes it shallower by removing a thin surface layer. Duncan Smith