If You Don`t Have a Disc Doctor

[BlackElantraGT]

WARNING: Do this at your own risk!



Last night I was watching a movie with a friend and about 2/3 of the way through, the disc quit working. Blockbuster was closed so there was no way we could go exchange for another copy and I didn`t want to end the night without finishing the movie.



I`ve heard of people using toothpaste before to fix discs, but I was too lazy to run upstairs to grab a tube. I first tried Klasse AIO by hand and that didn`t do anything. Since I`m not a big fan of #83 and I had some lying around I decided to give that a try.



I used a Meg`s yellow polishing pad with a PC. I dabbed a little polish onto the disc and spread it around with my finger. While sitting in a recliner, I had my PC upside, held in between with my feet, and on setting 1 started to spread the product. After the product was spread, I turned it off, bumped it up to #6 (you could probably get away with a slower setting ?), and proceeded to carefully polish the disc.



Once the polish is broken down, it should finish to a mirror shine with hardly any residue to buff off. I wiped off anything left with a mf towel, popped the movie back in the DVD player and we were able to finish the movie.



I`m not saying this is a substitute for a Disc Dr. or a disc repair system, but it worked for me when I needed it. I also wasn`t afraid of damaging Blockbuster`s disc because I had won the same movie in a contest and was planning on selling that on eBay so if some mishap were to happen, I would have just returned my movie to Blockbuster with a perfect, brand new disc.

[jeteast99]

haha, that is great

[Roger V]

I`ll have to try that. DACP isn`t too bad if you don`t mind going through 3943453 pads on a car.

[Fobia]

hahah that is so funny.. it makes sense tho...

[Greg Nichols]

That does not say much for Klasse AIO

[JayC]

Brasso works really well also. Dont use it on your car tho

[joshtpa]

It is a similar process. Each disc has a coat of clear on there. If it gets scratched or marred, it will not be able to get picked up by the laser. So you are removing some clear where the problem is and it plays...great job.

[porscheC4S]

What...no LSP ?

[mbkintner]

So what movie was it?

[BlackElantraGT]

It was Van Wilder 2. The movie is fairly new (out within the last few weeks?) so the disc looked pretty good. There was a very tiny scratch I could see that didn`t look very deep and didn`t seem like it would cause any problems (I`ve seen discs way more scratched that plays perfectly fine), so I don`t know if that was the cause or if it was just bad from the manufacturer? When DVDs first came out, I used to have problems like that a lot but I haven`t experienced that in awhile for brand new discs.



This wasn`t the usual "skip to the next scene" type of DVD problem. At the 21st scene, it just locks up, and then the Playstation just says "Unable to read disc".

[wlhump]

I have saved several CDs, both music and video game and a couple DVDs using ScratchX. Put a little on a MF and polish the disc. PRESTO, problems all gone. Sometimes, it takes a couple applications. I have brought back some pretty ugly discs (kids, like to leave them laying around out of the game case)

Besides, what have you go to lose if the disc doesn`t play anyway?

[JohnLINY]

+1 for wlhump`s Megs process. It has saved a few of my kid`s PS2 games. I read somewhere that you can wax discs to protect the surface. Never tried it but it makes sense.

[bronze2006]

I have applied a beautiful coat of Souveran to my whole collection. Great reflections!

[Paulie Walnuts]

You know you would think in this era and as long as CDs and DVDs have been out there there would be someone that would have invented a disc that doesnt scratch like that.

[TortoiseAWD]

That does not say much for Klasse AIO

Klasse AIO is primarily a chemical cleaner; it`s not suprising that it doesn`t work well when an abrasive polish is needed.



Horses for courses . . .



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