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CD Repair Nitty Gritty

This is a basic breakdown of what types of damaged CD's are not repairable. Even Yoesie can't repair these babies...they're are coasters for sure.

Warping - Warping is when the disc has been bent or physically "distorted" due to heat or damage. Free Ground ShippingWarping usually occurs when people leave their CD's in the sun or have tried inexpensive scratch repair methods. You can generally see the warping around the edges when you reflect light on the plastic side of the disk...and then tilt it back and forth while looking at the reflection of the light in the disc. The reflection will appear distorted or warped.

Dents - Dents are indentations on the foil side of the disc caused by some type of pressure or blunt force...usually by being stepped on or bitten by a pet. Dents may, but many times won't scratch or remove any part of the foil layer. but they refract the laser incorrectly causing that part of the disk to be unreadable. It sometimes looks like a deep scratch on the plastic layer but that is really the reflection of the dent.

Foil Damage or Graphic Side Scratches: Occurs when the foil layer of the disk has been scratched. Foil damage is not easy to spot with the naked eye. One way you may determine foil damage is to hold the disk up to a light source, looking at the plastic or "playing" side of the dark, and if you can see light through the disk...it has foil damage.

Basically, a CD is read by a laser beam sent from the player to the disk, the foil or reflective layer reflects the beam back to the player and translates the information on the plastic, "playing side", to music. So if this foil layer is damaged, the beam will not be reflected back and thus not able to translate the information into music.