Disc Cleaning - Its really easy

[Pikmin]

I still have this Australian Gamecube demo disk that's badly scratched can you make a video please. I tried getting it buffed three times and didn't help. I know it's a long shot but would still like to try one last time using your method

[tossEAC]

Gamecube are cleanable, that's for sure. Making video that's difficult .

If I can I will try to do a video one day, my bushes have gone on my drill again, just ordered two more sets, won't be able to do any cleaning for a day or two.

The best polishing trick came the other day when I found out about the top layer in brasso, it really makes all the difference, it basically turns shoe polish into liquid shoe polish which I have looked for but you can't seem to get.

I got a Phantasy Star Online for £2 once badly scratched, got it working no problem, without any of my new tricks, also bought a job lot of disc only NGC discs, and all were badly scratched, got all them working too.

8cm discs are trickier, as the buffing pads are all 12cm, but if you hold it steady pressed in the middle of the buffing pad, it still works, just harder to hold the disc bang in the centre.

[Pikmin]

No worries thanks for that

[gaijin]

CD/DVD Repair Machine

[Heihachi_73]

Another thing about Brasso, the one in the "toothpaste" tube is very abrasive even after removing the lumps, does not have the liquid layer, and will most likely destroy your discs rather than shine them up. Ironically, toothpaste itself seems to do a better job for lightly scratched discs (don't use the clear ones like Colgate/Macleans as it will only make everything sticky while leaving the marks on the disc).

Of course, if you have any worries about using these materials, always test it first on a crappy old CD/DVD you never use, or one which is already destroyed (e.g. a crack through the middle or disc rot/holes in data layer).

[tossEAC]

Got a new polish called, iKLEEN – Scratch Removing Polish. ebay

Anyway for me this has enough abrasive quality, but still be gentle enough to not ruin the disc.

I bought 7 Wii games, 6 I cleaned my normal way, and all worked fine.

But a Sponge Bob game still had bad marks on, I tried the normal way of cleaning but it gave up dumping round 160MB.

So I used the ikleen polish on my buffing pad that I use for badly scratched games, as it is not fluffy like the ones I use for polishing, but to cut a long story short a few cleans with the ikleen, and then buffed the normal way, resulted in a very nice looking disc that I am dumping now and needless to say its way past the 160mb point, regardless of whether it dumps or not, its definitely got it better, I looked at the disc after the final polish and it looks near mint, and I think all the scratches are gone.

And the discs that I use for new products and general experimentation are all ones that fail to dump even after many attempts to clean it. Makes sense then if it dumps you know your onto a winner with what ever it was that you tried before it was dumped 100%.

[tossEAC]

Got one Nintendo GameCube game working using iKLEEN – Scratch Removing Polish, giving the Wii game another go, after a polish it gave up 5 minutes from the end, first clean. Second clean looks like the scratches from the outer edges have gone, will be a 2nd miracle if it works.

Got the Wii disc working 2nd go, that's 2 in the bag, got a few more of the sort that refuse to dump, will give you any news, and hopefully we will get the odd new dump of these dead discs.

Got one more Wii game working, and one PS2 game, both games I had already tried a fair bit to get going, and in the end gave up, I even took the Wii game back to the shop, and they buffed it for free on their machine, but it still wouldn't dump, so getting this going quite easily using the iKLEEN is pretty hard-core, if a machine in a shop couldn't do it.

I did manage to wreck the surface on one Saturn game that had bad marks on it, don't know what actually wrecked it, think it was a combination of things, but its worse than it was before, I will probably try to sell it to a game shop with a machine, and let them deal with it.

[tossEAC]

CD/DVD Repair Machine

Good little video, neat machine, but I think, my way is better, nothing to build, and probably gives a better finish, but still very interesting video, thanks.

[tossEAC]

Going to try my hand at some videoing tonight.

[tossEAC]

If anyone has built a small, medium or large collection of scratched discs and would like them restoring for free, let me know and we can arrange something, even just so you can see how a restored disc ends up looking, the ones I have basically mastered and can get looking like new are Wii, XBOX & 360, Dreamcast, Saturn, both PS2 and PSX will work as they should but hiding the fact completely that it has been buffed is much harder, you can tell a lot easier that they have been buffed, I really don't know why it is.