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January 7th, 1998

Level: Intermediate
Wipe Out! CD Repair Kit

Audio CDs and CD-ROMs are fairly robust - you can badly abuse these silvery discs and they'll continue to deliver. But occasionally one will acquire a severe enough scratch that it becomes unusable. Or so you may think:

I recently tried a product from Esprit Development Corp. (http://www.cdrepair.com) called the Wipe Out! CD Repair Kit that is capable of bringing badly trashed CDs back from the dead.

To test this mild abrasive I created a series of deep, squiggly scratches across the surface of an audio CD with the point of a paper clip. To ensure that the CD was completely toasted I added a cross-hatched pattern of scratches to the original scratches. I then attempted to play the audio CD on my Mac. Naturally, it skipped more often than an assembly of second graders.

After a couple of applications of Wipe Out! CD Repair, some fairly vigorous rubbing with the included cloth (you're instructed to rub until the scratch disappears), and a rinse and dry, the CD played back flawlessly.

Wipe Out! costs $14.99 (plus $3.00 shipping and handling). Check it out.

Contributed by Chris Breen
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