You ain't gonna believe this use for PC

Don

Don

Darth Camaro 12/27/15
My wife bought a cleaner kit for CDs & video games. I looked at it, gave it a try and realized it left marks that were worse than the ones I was trying to get out.

Suddenly, I had a brain fart err, an idea. I took a computer game CD that didn't work B/C it was so scratched up out to the garage and put a cutting pad on the PC. Setting it to about 4 1/2 I put some Megs #82 on the CD, braced the PC upside down against my side and turned it on.

Holding the PC with my right hand & using my left to hold the CD against the pad & move it around, I buffed for a several minutes.

After I was done, I used a m/f towel to buff off the residue. The disk was in far better shape, fewer scratches etc.

To check my work, I called my 9 year old and had him try the game out in the computer. Lo & behold it WORKED!! Of course I lost use of the computer for the rest of the afternoon. But at least now I know not to buy CD 'repair' kits, I'll just use my buffer.
 
Do you still have finger prints?! My kids have a couple of Playstation games that don't work. I'm gonna try that!
 
I am going to try that I have a few cd's that don't work. At least I won't buy one of the cd cleaners that doesn't work. Thanks
 
I have not used my PC to repair cd's, but I have used my detailing products. Sometimes when renting DVD's, the disc is scratched and causes problems. #9, Plexus and SEC have worked, but I was thinking of trying Meg's new plastic polish.

Eric
 
I wonder if that would work for 8 tracks..... Probably not. I'm going to have to try that anyway! :) I've got some old hair metal CDs that are a little scuffed. You know those visor things you can slide CDs into? Well, I used one of those and it scuffed all my CDs in just one area. Its a real pain. Now half of my favorite CDs won't play the last half of the album. :mad:
 
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