Disc Cleaning - Its really easy (Page 1 of 2)

I was hoping you would be interested as I seem to remember I sent someone Brasso, but that might not have been you.

I know you dump a lot of games and that's why it probably interests you because you get some that are matted with scratches.

I could make a video, but not put it on you tube as I am banned from their Maybe I will try to make a video when a friend comes around as he can film it.

FIReB4LL could you add my 9 Jap Dreamcast dumps please, and my 2 Jap PS2 dumps, if you could, Jackal said you would possibly add them as its more your area of expertise.

Stopped using Brasso a long time ago, your much better using clear shoe polish and novus2, the shoe polish does the work, and the Novus2 puts a really fine finish over the shoe polish, but you need a drill and a couple of buffing pads, the finish is like mint condition, and I am really considering doing a video.

I have been buffing the discs now for years and done hundreds, at first my choice of polish was different and no were near as good, but after a while I learnt what was good and what was bad. First I was using neat surgical spirit, and spraying it on, but the buffing pad just soaked it up and was doing very little.

I used to think, wear away the top layer to remove the scratches was the way, but that's near impossible anyway, and now I find building up the surface with coat upon coat of polish gets your disc back as close to new as you could dream of.

I was like you at one point I was trying my best to avoid scratched discs altogether, which is definitely the way to go, but not always possible so it helps to have a backup plan, I don't really mind if the disc is scratched, which is great because I can buy every disc in a shop that has ridiculously low prices like 50p or £1 come home, clean the lot and be almost guaranteed every one will dump like new.

I managed to get a Wii game yesterday when I was out looking it was £2 and was factory sealed, I would prefer that priced game as long as its factory sealed any day of the week. I am re-dumping it now.

I think ebay and amazon both sell novus 12+3 I have never seen it here in our shops either, its sold as pinball polish, novus2 is the best and novus1 is a liquid so not great for buffing, for just cleaning a dirty fingerprint disc, novus 1 is ok, but I still prefer novus 2.

Scratches 99/100 times are cleanable, but if you have a gash that's a bit more than a scratch it wont come out, so generally every scratch comes out but the odd one wont. This is because the original polish on a dvd is so incredible that its near impossible to actually mark the plastic, laser burn wont come out if its more than a little bit, that's when you bang your console while the drive is spinning the disc and the laser scratches the disc. So anything as deep as laser burn is a problem. Surface scratches even if its covered top to toe, side to side will come out within 5 minutes. The deepest scratches might take some extra buffing. I will see if I can do a video soon.

The reason I mentioned this now and have done in the past is that I feel its of relevance to redump.org members, as we all end up with discs that wont dump from time to time, we would like to dump, and now I have mastered the cleaning using nothing to fancy like a $5000 buffing machine, its well worth me getting a few people interested in maybe giving it a go them selves.

Basically when your looking it a disc usually covered in scratches, those scratches are actually/generally only in the polish, and using my method of building up polish over the mess, it basically puts everything right again.

One other thing I forgot to mention, it helps if most of your finger tips aren't dead hard, basically the type brikies and builders have because they use a lot of lime and concrete, but if you think you have pretty soft finger tips, then you can probably get away with using your fingers to rub the disc a bit, which is a key part to this buffing, the novus needs a bit of finger tip rubbing, but if your fingers are hard then you'll probably add loads more scratches.

If not you'll have to use just the buffing pads and the end result may no be quite as good. But the disc will still work even if you don't polish it with your fingers, it might just look a little less shiny.

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

No worries thanks for that

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).

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.

Going to try my hand at some videoing tonight.

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

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.