Putting hairspray on a scuffed CD

Maybe somebody's already done this, maybe I'm just nutty I need to write myself a bill of health with a green stoplight pen, but I was out driving yesterday and really wanted to hear this Stevie Wonder CD that was completely scuffed and minor scratched into Oblivion it was alsi dirty and I looked around my car for some kind of juice and the most volatile substance I had was a can of non-aerosol hairspray. The CD was pretty much trashed so I didn't really care so I thought what the hell? I sprayed it,wiped the grime off with a piece of cloth, sprayed it again with hairspray wiped it off and this CD has never played better. It's a CDR I burned and for some reason it's playing better after being spritzed with hairspray. That's weird.

 

What will that do to your player?

 

Hair spray is sticky. I wouldn't recommend it.

 

Hairspray is polymers suspended in volatile solvents. Nice stuff to sling around in your unit.

 

The laser doesn’t ride the cd. So no contact there. I gave it a spritz, not a pompadour.

 

Exactly what hairspray is this? I will try it on a trashed scratched up record.
I think you should copy that CDR while the copying is good.

 

Wood glue.

Lots of it.

 

You keep a can of hair spray in your car?

 

Lol. That would be my Aussie miracle headstrong volume hairspray. LOL


Good thought about the copying though. Thanks.

 

As a former goth and once proud devotee to the church of Robert Smiths hair, trust me, you don't want to be spraying it anywhere in the vicinity of your vinyl. No good will ever come of it!

 

I’ve had luck gently polishing with toothpaste (and washing it off).

 

I did the same thing with spit! A friend of mine (who leaves his CDs on the floor of his car) was complaining that a certain disc would not play properly in his car player. I ejected the disc and (I kid you not) it was smeared with chocolate.

I turned away from him and with sputum and a tissue I cleaned it and it played perfectly.
He hadn't seen what I did and he still thinks I'm an electronic genius.

 

Don't try to cover it up. Polish the scuff out. Flitz works extremely well and requires less elbow grease. Works great on yellowed plastic headlamp covers too.

 

I don't even use hairspray for may hair.

 

For the occasional unplayable CD I encounter, I have had really good luck fixing the issue by...buying a new copy. But I have to really want it!

 

Pledge Floor Gloss. Which was formerly Future, Pledge with Future, Pledge Floor Care multisurface...

Modelers have been using it to make clear parts shiny with a dip or airbrush for a long time. Filling in the scratches should prevent the laser from being refracted in unintended directions.

 

Pledge contains silicone, the last thing you want near your electronics.

 

It is a hard-drying floor wax that requires ammonia to strip. It is not "Pledge" the lame furniture polish.

 

I've had luck cleaning and repairing CDs and Blu-rays with, first, room temperature water and the smallest drop of dish detergent I can coax from the bottle, cleaning under the running tap with my fingers. Blot dry. Then I apply Armor-All. This has resolved all but the worst gouged discs.

For genuinely gouged discs, I was once able to solve a scratch with toothpaste, although it looked pretty bad when I was done.

As a last resort, I did take a nephew's videogame disc to a videogame store and pay to have it resurfaced. It worked but you can only do it once per disc, I'm told.

 

Hey lighten up Pal, it was just a joke! CD's are great & they're here to stay, it's your sense of humour that's disappearing.

 

Armor-All contains silicone, the last thing you want near your electronics.

 

They used to make those hand cranked cd restorers. Don’t know if they worked though.

 

Yeah, disc doctor or something similar. It worked fine for polishing the cd, and removing dirt or whatever. It wouldn't save a truly trashed cd nor would it help with scratches that were in the direction of the 'grooves' but it did fix minor scratches and such.