[P1] Scratch on TiBook back

[Stephen Chakwin]

Thanks, Tom.  But sounds a little scary...

On 11/23/02 2:39 PM, "Tom R. no spam" <tr5374 at csc.albany.edu> wrote:

> 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
> . . .