Fixing scratched CD's and DVD's using Brasso

It works really well, I think the wadding may scratch the disc more than the liquid, because you can use a really soft cloth with the liquid, the wadding is like cotton wool buds. The wadding sort I used to use on my nans brass ornaments.

It can take up to 10 mins to get all the scratches off a disc, and you will need to keep re-applying brasso to your cloth, every few minutes. Once you got the scratches of buff it up a bit with a clean cloth, then wash it in warm water and fairy liquid to get it cleam, then dry it with a soft clean cloth, then once its dry, for best results, spray it with a bit of mr sheen or anti-static furniture polish, and buff it again, that will get it dead shiny and will help it stay dust free.

If your shopping in England, supermarkets sell it in the cleaning isles.

BTW: It's only worth doing discs that are completely and totally scratched to hell, if it's a mint condition disc with a tiny surface scratch that makes no difference to how it reads, brassoing will not do your disc any favours, it will look more scratched than when it started.

But if its really bad to begin with, you wont get it like a brand new disc, what you will get is a disc with no big scratches but a lot of very faint rub marks, which means it will now read but wont look like a brand new original.

Basically you can take really bad discs and make them work, and look, a lot better.

Lol anything it can't do?  plastic surgery maybe?

Its took me 4 hours getting a disc to work, i fought it sector by sector and it has some pretty deep scratches but to look at it now you wouldn't think the scratches had been there. I must of polished it about 50 times but in isobuster now it say's the disc is in good working order doing a surface scan. So even if your disc is pretty scratched and giving errors you can get it to work again using a bit of elbow greese and patients. I've done 5 discs now and all 5 are working flawlessly so stick at it. I'm using brasso with the wadding and one of them yellow soft cloths. Apparently T-cut works aswell but Brasso is the best and it's cheaper.

Oh and if you've got a caravan with plastic windows you can use it to remove the scratches. My friend told me that today.

I guess tossEAC found a new drug to inhale - Brasso

looks like i would need to import 2 or 3 cans from Great Britain :x

Doesn't get you very high, but I was sure the veins in my eyes where getting bigger.  I was having serious side-effects, otherwise known as "coming down".

tossEAC, you gave me the idea to buy scratched discs on ebay & co, dump them, fix them with brasso & plexus and sell them again for more money. i have many of them here. i couldn't find brasso in stores yet

brasso & plexus IS A WASTE OF PLEXUS, sort of.

brasso is amazing for really badly scratched discs.

plexus is amazing also, but for your very precious un-scratched discs, and psp screens.

you won't get them looking as good as new if you brasso.

but if they are like 'mint' with some dirt, grease or whatever, polish will get them good but plexus will get them absolutely perfect, but only if they are technically perfect to begin with.

I actuall went to a cheep second hand shop, and went through all the ps2 discs, rejecting any scratched ones, but keeping anything I thought would be ok once polished, as a matter of fact out of about a hundred games I found about 10 that were just a bit dirty, but not scratched.

You could try ASDA supermarkets (uk) for brasso, order online, and maybe they'll send it at a reaonable price.