I like the idea of making copies of CD’s and giving the copies to people who ask to borrow. I wish I had done that a few times. Obviously, some people care for things and some others do not — not even their own things. No one I know plays records anymore — they don’t even have a record player. So I don’t get requests to borrow those. But some still play CD’s. Fortunately, others’ tastes in music seldom match my own, so I get few requests there either.
When I come across a CD that is scratched, but not too severely, I have had success using a method I found on-line: white tooth paste. You want the plain white kind, not the paste with other colors or crystals. I wet the CD with water, apply a pea-sized glob of the paste and rub it in using my fingers, going over any places with obvious scratches. Then rinse off the paste with water, pat dry and play it to see if it still skips. Sometimes I need to go over it a second time. It doesn’t always work, but it usually has.
When I come across a CD that is scratched, but not too severely, I have had success using a method I found on-line: white tooth paste. You want the plain white kind, not the paste with other colors or crystals. I wet the CD with water, apply a pea-sized glob of the paste and rub it in using my fingers, going over any places with obvious scratches. Then rinse off the paste with water, pat dry and play it to see if it still skips. Sometimes I need to go over it a second time. It doesn’t always work, but it usually has.