Bloggers Edition – Video iPod Scratched
- February 3rd, 2006 - 8.35 pm UTC
- Bloggers Edition
- John Pernock
Today we start a new series on World of Apple. The Bloggers Edition will be a collection of posts over the next few months written in a blogging fashion with the aim of making an opinion rather than communicating news. With the addition of the Bloggers Edition Series we welcome a new writer John. Be nice now.
Can the new iPod video stand up to the durability of the earlier models? I take it on a head to head test with the older models.
Overall I have had at least one of every model iPod which I have to admit is a little stupid, but I have noticed something, going towards the more recent iPod releases. They scratch a lot easier than earlier models. Apple has been sued by many angry iPod nano owners which has been noted about because they are scratch prone and all apple did was include a flimsy cloth case, which can even scratch the iPod. They also did this with the new video iPod. I got my video iPod the week after it was released, of which I had to trade 4 iPods in to get it and I listened to it on the train ride back from the city, where the Apple reseller I got it from is located, and I noticed one thing, I had gotten off the train and got into my car when I noticed a scratch. I was infuriated because it was in the case the whole time and it was in my pocket with nothing else in it and I was babying it. Naturally when I got home I tried rubbing it out, using iPod scratch remover, which didn’t work. I eventually got over it and bought an agent eighteen case, which did the protecting job nicely, but then I noticed more scratches under the light. I read Apple’s forums up and down and I heard bad and good things about brasso. So I decided to try it because there was a can of it in the garage. I followed a step by step website I found on Google, which was for a nano but the video is basically the same outside makeup. The gentleman on the site said it took him somewhere around three hours, so I wasn’t discouraged and started. At first it looked like it was working. I worked for four hours on it then let it dry overnight before doing anything, and in the morning I woke up and it was SCRATCHED MORE! I couldn’t believe it! So now all I have to say to people who are trying to use brasso to wipe away scratches on their iPod are taking a risk, not a very good risk, because you can cause more harm to your iPod if you do not do it correctly.
Comments
Adam 15th February 2006, 22.56 pm
hi i also have ipod video 5g black and i read a forum on the ipod 5g and the nano’s scratches and they also recommended that people with scratched ipods use brasso, so i went out to the supermarket and bought a small can of brasso with a cloth thats inside the can that u tear off (this looks like it helps alot more than the other types of brasso) and it worked ok for me, and only took me two minutes. I must say leaving the Brasso’s smear on the ipod might be the cause of the scratching as you are suppose to wipe the smears with a fine dried cloth until it has gone, as for me it left my ipod looking shining new and the one major scratch i had on it has faded. I have to admit it feels dodgy wiping metal polish on your ipod but if you do it correctly it should be fine. I recommended brasso to anyone who is concerned about the scratches on their ipods, especially the peeps with the black ones as the black ipods are suppose to have more noticable scratches.
Einstein 30th November 2006, 04.56 am
Brasso is a VERY BAD idea. I tried in on both an Ipod Photo and two PSPs. The problem is, Brasso contains petroleum distiliates, which not only make your gadgets smell real bad after you’ve applied and then cleaned them (and from what I can tell there is no way to get rid of this smell- they are permanently tainted), but you end up touching these petro chemicals and inhaling them every time you handle your gadget. They make your hands tingle or burn (for lack of a better word) the same way getting gas on your hands does.. it gets under your skin and no amount of washing with remove this feeling. I have tried cleaning the gadgets with liquid soap, and glass cleaner, to no avail… they continue to smell. Considering the high petroleum content of this chemical, I would not even recommend it for polishing metal, such as sinks or faucets, or anything that humans come into contact with.
IsolynC 5th May 2009, 14.06 pm
emm… strange ))
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