Well, I didn't get around to my Brasso test until after Christmas. Just too busy with family doings and such, but last night I finally gave it a try.

I burned a movie onto a test disk and made sure it played on the computer and then I proceeded to scratch it up. I was trying to make it look like my target DVDs, which I figured got scratched up by careless knocking around on desktops. So, I rubbed and slid the DVD around on my not-so-clean desk and even dropped it on the floor a few times for good measure. By the time I was done the software DVD player on the computer wouldn't recognize the disk and the scratches looked approximately like the ones on the target disks.

I placed the DVD upside down in an old CD case and used the Brasso on a cheese cloth for a good five minute polishing, using spiral-type rubbing as well as a lot of radial polishing. After my arm got tired I rinsed the DVD off in the sink and dried it carefully with a towel.

I must say that visually the scratches looked just as bad as before the Brasso treatment and I had added a nice layer of lighter all over scratches to the mix. My hopes were not high as I placed the polished DVD back in the computer and my doubts were confirmed when the software failed to recognize the data on the DVD again.

If anyone that has used Brasso to polish out scratches can tell me what I'm doing wrong I'll be sure to give it another try, but I still think that the Brasso advocates are talking about polishing out single scratches and not the all-over scratch job that I'm trying to overcome.

I'm off to the store on the way home tonight to pick up some Formby's furniture polish for test number two.