Remove laptop scratches

I don't know how you could remove them, and neither does my partner who works at one of their repair centres. He says it would cost more to repair it than to get a new model, but i have a suggestion. It may not be a good suggestion but i'll leave it up to you to decide if you want to try it. In the antiques trade, if you have scratches in your furniture, you match the colour of the wood with a coloured wax and smoothe it down. You could buy a silver marker and fill in the missing colour with that, then carefully blend around the edges with a cottonwool bud with a little nail varnish remover solution on the end which you would wave around before applying in order to dry it a little so it wouldn't run. It seems risky, but if your desperate...it couldn't look any worse.

Reply From: Michelle Gough - Jul 31st 2005

Scratches on a laptop can be very hard to remove.

There are specialist products you can buy at DIY stores that are designed to remove and repair scratches on laptops and watches and other gadgets.

I suggest you go to the store and ask for their advice as for the best product, then try it on a small area and see if it works.

Good luck!

Reply From: Fred - Feb 9th 2006

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