Vinyl Repair?

@vinylvin - Did you mean buy another wife or record?  Cheap to get one, VERY expensive to get rid of one.....or so I've heard. 

Really… Gorilla glue, what’s a little more snap crackle and pop anyway ?

Your disc probably would have been better off if your wife had let it fall.  But catching things you have dropped is a reflex action.

If the behaviour is to become regular, it may be good to ask her to trim her nails.

Seriously, long long ago in the days of hardly compliant suspensions I was successful a few times at re-tracking LPs that 'jumped'.  But the process always left an annoying click.  Admittedly better then a jump.

I surely don't get the sand paper idea, that's just insane.

We are obviously all a little crazy. On a couple occasions I went as far as using a thin threading needle to get rid of a skip. It worked on one album but also destroyed a song on an original very expensive NIN The fragile triple album. Ended up buying a new remastered copy. If you play a lot of albums, it's not if but when s**t will happen. Once while brushing a mint US original of The Wall, I dropped the old style wooden brush and the corner of the wooden part struck the vinyl, badly scratching the entire first song of side 2. Had to fork out big bucks to find a NM replacement for this one. Another time while lifting up Hawkwind's Levitation album (the one with Ginger Baker), the record got caught in the  screw groove of the VPI classic spindle and came back down violently on the spindle badly scratching the end of side one. I found a great replacement copy while vacationing  in Switzerland. All that to say life is too short to worry about a couple of vinyl accidents. I now rather think of them as nice anecdotes in my collection. Do yourself a favor, buy a new copy, the odds of fixing a scratched record completely are close to nil and it's a lot cheaper than getting a new wife. 

There's a digital answer too. I have one demonstration LP that's rare. It has a long scratch across the one side. POP, POP, POP! I recorded the album to my computer and used WAVES audio restoration. The pops were completely gone. I got lucky. Obviously, the reason why this method worked is because with a gouge or scratch, the groove is broken but the information is still intact, restored by the elimination of the gap formed by the damage. You can then play your prefect CDR! Joe