[P1] Scratch on TiBook back

[Tom R. no spam]

Try--cautiously and gently--to burnish it out?  Like etchers
burnish steel engraving plates, but you'll have to develop
your own sense of what metal is best to rub the titanium,
how hard to rub it, etc.  I've had to do this, and my own
experience was that there's a just-sufficient amount of
burnishing, starting with short strokes longitudinally
along the edges of the scratch, observing how the worst
sticking-up jaggeds respond, which might eliminate the
worst of the jagged shadows from the scratch, without
creating a noticable, wider, smooth track where the scratch
was.  But this was like smoothing brass scratched by steel,
who knows what titanium looks and reacts like.

Or fill it with some epoxy, or wax paste, tinted the right
color?

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Stephen Chakwin wrote:
 . . .
> not a horrible scratch -- it's about a two inches long, a kind of Harry
> Potter lightning mark above and to the left of the Apple cutout on the
> Cover (about a 10 o'clock position).  So much for the strength of titanium
> (at least versus brass).  No functional problem with the computer but if
 . . .