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Repairing skips

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1994-05-12 11:04spbcajk Repairing skips
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1994-05-12 11:04spbcajkOn Thu, 12 May 1994, WILL-E wrote: > Teep wrote: > >hello. . .i had a brush with some bad
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Repairing skips
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On Thu, 12 May 1994, WILL-E wrote:
quoted 9 lines Teep wrote:> Teep wrote: > >hello. . .i had a brush with some bad luck this weekend and two of > >my favorite tracks developed nasty skips in them. . .(my karma is illin) > > I've fixed two of my more precious records that were skipping with a bright > light, a magnifying glass and a sewing needle. I can't remember where I > read it first, probably the BPM list, and I didn't believe it until one day > out of desperation I tried it and it worked. Now that nasty skip is a > *barely* noticeable click.
If this is a CD problem then this obviously (unless you've got very steady hands and a very fine needle! :-) won't work - what I find can be quite successful for mending surface scratches is very fine metal polish (I use Duraglit), which, rubbed gently on the surface, rounds off the edges of the scratch and presumably minimises nasty refraction effects. Sounds strange, but it does work quite often. Cheers /================\ \======\ /====/ # # # # # # # # /========\ /===========\ # # # @@ # # === # /==\ / # # @@ # # # # # # == / # @@ # # # # # \========/ \========/ \===/ \===/ spbcajk@ucl.ac.uk