Disc Cleaning - Its really easy

[haynor666]

Make a video, please. This novus 2 is not available in Poland and import will be rather costly.

[Heihachi_73]

@ tossEAC - if only you were in Australia, I have about 50 scratched, undumpable and unsellable discs, if not more (and then I should probably count my DVD collection).

Three of the shops I used to get discs repaired can no longer do it - one place closed down (game store), the other place got rid of their machine (JB Hi-Fi) and the third place broke theirs and have never bothered repairing it (Cash Converters). And I am not paying $3-$5 per disc to have them fixed at a video or music store when in some cases the games themselves aren't even worth that.

[tossEAC]

all you need is the right tools, I could literally do it blindfolded and nearly every sort of game works fine and looks like new.

Heihachi_73 I was going to say I could sell you about 100 of the wii discs I have dumped all guaranteed working, for about 2 pound a pop, if you want, and I wont sting you on postage costs, probably only cost $30, their is no damn pound sign, because my laptop is usa, but I live in uk.

And you could always put your 100 odd discs on a spindle, and I could clean them for free, as long as you pay all the postage both ways, which wont be much small parcel, I don't really trust sending stuff by post, but I buy from Japan often enough and that always arrives, even stuff from the usa seems to always arrive in the end I'm quite capable of sending a large or medium parcel, without getting stung, as I would book the reservation with the courier online.

And if you agreed and the postage was stupendous, I would be ok to forget the whole thing,. you know, no strings, as I am not really desperate to sell, but could really use the space to buy more wii stuff. I would only be interested in keeping the stuff you don't really want if that helps.

[Pikmin]

@ tossEAC - if only you were in Australia, I have about 50 scratched, undumpable and unsellable discs, if not more (and then I should probably count my DVD collection).

Three of the shops I used to get discs repaired can no longer do it - one place closed down (game store), the other place got rid of their machine (JB Hi-Fi) and the third place broke theirs and have never bothered repairing it (Cash Converters). And I am not paying $3-$5 per disc to have them fixed at a video or music store when in some cases the games themselves aren't even worth that.

Game Traders Highpoint offer disc cleaning services but yeah about $3 or $5  a pop not economical

Might have to give iKleen a try

[tossEAC]

If anyone is interested in doing the disc cleaning like me, and have at least 100 discs they would like to try.

It may be worth me putting together a cleaning kit with everything you need -minus the drill, all the prices for the stuff you need are in the links.

But basically it would cost, £15 for novus 1+2 (forget 3) £10 for one buffing pad, and about £10 for 3x lambs wool type, shoe polish is cheep, and I could supply some of the extracted brasso liquid for about £2, the ikleen is about £6 and then all you need is the rubber pads that the lambs wool bonnets go on probably you would get 2-3 of these for £10

So everything you need and more you would be looking at £50 and your own drill, other than that its really easy, you can't really fail as most of the work is done by the drill, ok their are some tips and tricks that will help along the way, but once you suss it out for yourself you are laughing.

Put it this way, I paid more for a drive just to dump PS3 BluRays, and I put this to way more use than that drive.

So £50 plus a bit of postage, and you have your disc cleaning machine.

Anyone interested in a kit let me know.

[tossEAC]

No video as of yet, but here is a photo of a Dreamcast game, that was brand new, but wouldn't dump, so under extreme protest at the time I cleaned it by hand in the hope it would dump, but it didn't, I recently came across it totally forgotten about, and noticed the hand clean I gave it in the beginning was dreadfull, probably a very early clean, done by hand with brasso and cotton wool pad, so I re buffed it using the tricks of today, and it dumped, and heres a photo of the disc its self.... I can actually see a little mark on it, but its not to bad to look at to see how good you can get them, Dreamcast games come up like new.

[gaijin]

tossEAC, how you clean deep scratches? I tried Novus 2 + drill + 125 mm polishing circle, but it don't help clean them. Metal polish like brasso? Don't have it in my country, but I think to try something similar and liquid.

[tossEAC]

The neutral shoe polish is the main scratch remover, and novus 2 is a polish used for hiding the fact it has been buffed, the neutral shoe polish is about the best scratch remover.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CBUFS68/ … WS2CJEFW32

The other thing is, when a buffing pad is new and fluffy its great for getting the finish like new, but it is not so good at scratch removal, as a buffing pad (a new one) builds up deposits of polish it gets better at scratch removal, but less good at getting the final finish, so it is wise to have at least two buffing pads on the go, one for scratch removal and one for fine polishing.

When a buffing pad becomes useless (all the buff goes) and you have washed it several times and it has lost lots of the wool rendering it useless. don't throw it away, you can put it onto the rubber pads the bonnets go on, you put it on wool side facing the rubber, then put a new buffing pad over the old one, this gives you more padding and makes it all a lot better.

[gaijin]

Cleaning kills me. I can't get kiwi polish in my country and buy wrong with wax. I'll try to find neutral next time. I want compound which can clean deep scratches, polish plastic surface maybe manually and don't add more scratches. Drill + 125 mm polishing circle
sometimes add more scrathes or heats and maybe damage surface. I use toothpaste.

[tossEAC]

You don't have to use kiwi shoe polish any will do, kiwi is just a brand name. Just make sure its clear shoe polish though.