Polishing out scratches: Skip Dr?

...is apparently a hand-cranked device that allegedly polishes scratches out of CDs.

Questions:

1. For those who have experience with the Skip Dr, does it work?

2. If 1=yes, what's a cheap source for Skip Drs, if any?

3. If 1=no or 'I dunno', what's an alternative to effectively polishing scratches out of CDs? (Tried toothpaste method

Better read this first...
http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/print/0,23102,3375597,00.html

Same here. Probably because I've also been smart enough to know whom I could lend discs and whom I shouldn't. Never had a problem. (And I do check.

I don't trust myself with 'prized CDs' and therefore only use cd-r copies Only copies are ever used in the car.

Again, give 'em CD-Rs.

I simply consider any CD or book that I lend to anyone is gone for good. Almost all of them come back unscathed, though.

It indeed does.

Any electronics store will work.

Any grownup who steadfastly refuses to lend to friends.

Any grownup who isn't clumbsy...

I've never loaned any of my CDs out to friends yet over time some CDs start to skip for some unknown reason. If I can see fingerprints on hte cd I used windex and toilet paper which always works, however if it's not a fingerpring nothing has worked for me. Best,

Mark Allen Zimmerman * Chicago

Any grown-up who can spell clumsy correctly or pluralize CD without an apostrophe....