brillo pad's ?

Hi everyone first time poster here,was wondering if someone could advise me on a small problem! on the advice of a good freind of mine i used a brillo pad to give my cd collection a good buff up last night and now not one of the 300+ disks will play would a new cd player be likely to help?if not how much do you think i could ask for the cd's in the buy and sell section? thanks in advance for any help,Tony

 

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Sorry it's not April fools day yet.

 

tony,
obviously you used the ones without soap. you have to use those brillo pads with that barbie pink goo in them. this interacts with the polycarbonate used in cd manufacture to uniformly skim the surface of the cd removing microfractures and other imperfections. some say that putting your cd's and the brillo pads in the freezer overnight also aids this process.
the brillo pad treatment is an evolution of the old toothbrush / toothpaste / baking soda treatment tried by early tweakology poineers in the early years of cd. some tried sandpaper as this seems to work well for tired vinyl styluses however this was just stupid.
currently avantgarde cutting edge tweakologists are experimenting with high pressure suspended particle liquid to 'blast' imperfections from the surface of cd's, however this technology is not perfected as yet and is just as likely to turn your cd into swiss cheese as it is to improve replay.
there are also rumours of top secret research into nanomachines capable of continually scavenging the surface of your cd collection and repairing any imperfection in the surface but these are unsubstansiated and anyone asking questions has mysteriously dissappeared.
cheers


julian

 

Hi Julian,thanks for the in depth reply m8,am i to gather from that lot that giving them a scrub with some colgate wont help then

 

You could try engine 'Gunk' as a cleaner, very good for removing grease marks.

 

Response to Initial post = :ffrc: :ffrc:

Response to Julians post = :ffrc: :ffrc: :ffrc: :ffrc:

 

Are you a greengrocer, by any chance?

 

Bub, butcher's and baker's do it too.

 

Gutted.

You need to examine each disk under a microscope and write down the order of ones & zeros for each track on each CD.

You then need to copy these into a text file on your computer and save it as a .MP3 before reburning it to CD.

 

Did you clean in a round and round motion or from the centre out?
for CDs and DVDs you must scratch from the centre hole out - it is only on vinyl that you use the scouring pad in a round and round motion. I think if you got yourself the TEAC twin box machine (<£15000) the CDs should work fine - I've heard that you can even read lager soaked beer mats and dijective biscuits using the TEAC P30.
Donut

 

Hi, to be honest i only started this thread to see how many people would view a thread with such a stupid heading,221 so far but thanks for your kind responses

 

snoo,
assuming it took 1 second to write down each digit and then another second to type each digit into a text file it would take aproximately 42 years to do 1 cd.
it boggles the mind how trivially we view this kind of thing.
cheers

julian

 

Oh dear, an attention junkie.

 

oh dear, a snide snipey comment junkie.

 

Oh dear....

 

Much longer if you include the time it takes to go through the text file and correct all the bit errors

 

well according to you there wouldn;t be any so you could rip through it couldn;t you?
cheers

julian