Anybody recommend a disc polisher?

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Short story, I have a three year old, and find myself needing a disc polisher.

Anybody that can recommend a good unit that's not abusively expensive?

-Hans
 
Check with your local video rental store. Ask what type they use, or if you only have a couple discs needing polished, have them do it (might be cheaper than buying a polisher).
 
I have bought a few different units over the past few years. A hand crank one, and a battery powered one. Both worked okay for minor scratches. I had a few Xbox Disks that my son scratched pretty bad. I took them to my local Game Store and they have a professional machine that took those scratches right out and only cost me a few dollars a disk.
 
Battery Disc Dr

I bought a battery Disc Dr to rehab a juke box with around 50 scratched up discs. The thing did the trick. Some times, it took 2 or 3 tried to get out the really bad scratches.

All discs were able to be put back on line. Only a Monkees disc that had been broken at one point, had to be replaced.

It was around $50 from Best Buy, but you put the disc in, and hit the on button. No cranking, no getting "H U L K" forearms. "Easy-peasy," as Captain Reynolds would say.

Perhaps "Just like eatin pancakes" from Ray Butts would be a better quote from Space - Above and Beyond.
 
Yeah, I rolled out "I'd recommend an immediate investigation into the HBDL" today, and got a lot of blank stares.

That's from the same episode, as Butts is being grilled by McQueen as to how Butts managed to over-ride the hangar bay door lock.

But of course, you already knew that.
 
A buddy of mine ripped back-ups of every movie so when his kids destroyed them, it was a .20 cent copy. That's better than taking scratches out later on because whatever plastic those disc are made from, it's the easiest damn stuff to scratch on the planet- on purpose.
 
I can do them for $1 a disc. I have a $2000ish professional resurfacer. It takes care of most scratches, but it cannot fix gouges.

-Jake

I have a jfj single arm machine http://www.jfjdiscrepair.com and a motor with a buffing wheel on it. What do you use?

I hand buff on the wheel and then polish with blue compound, most of the time.

I kind of wouldn't mind a more heavy duty machine.
 
Appreciate the offer on doing the repairs, but I think I've got enough that it will just pay off to get a decent machine to keep at home.

Ripping backups is no good, moved over to blue-ray for most titles, and don't have anything that can burn them. I also forgot to add that I need to do blue-rays as well.

-Hans
 
Disc-go-devil. Great Little machine. I've done around 8,000 discs in it in the past 4-5 years. I've been able to do Game Cube, CD, DVD, and bluray, even HD. It use a Consumable pak. Which is basically a silicon liquid. Depending on the gouge depth, its been able to get rid of them. They use to be a few thousand when I bought it, but there just over 1000 now.

Check it out. The site If i remember is discgotech.com or .ca

Make sure you purchase it from the US distrubuter. Its manufatured in canada, but still cheaper to buy in the USA and Ship back to Canada. It messes with my mind.
 
I have a jfj single arm machine http://www.jfjdiscrepair.com and a motor with a buffing wheel on it. What do you use?

I hand buff on the wheel and then polish with blue compound, most of the time.

I kind of wouldn't mind a more heavy duty machine.

This is the new version of the machine that I bought. From what I am told it does not work as well as mine, although mine requires a great deal experience to use it properly or you can damage discs. The link is for an automated machine that requires no experience to use. Luckily they still sell my old parts as vintage parts. I should order some more in case they stop selling them.

Mine does gamecube and bluerays also

http://www.fixadisc.com/shop/index.php?productID=117
 
This is the new version of the machine that I bought. From what I am told it does not work as well as mine, although mine requires a great deal experience to use it properly or you can damage discs. The link is for an automated machine that requires no experience to use. Luckily they still sell my old parts as vintage parts. I should order some more in case they stop selling them.

Mine does gamecube and bluerays also

http://www.fixadisc.com/shop/index.php?productID=117


It can actually take scratches off blu ray? I can't touch them with my machine. If it does, I'll order it. How much use do you get off one pad? They seem expensive.
 
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It can actually take scratches off blu ray? I can't touch them with my machine. If it does, I'll order it. How much use do you get off one pad? They seem expensive.

You may want to ask if it is okay to use the new style machine on blue-rays according the the website it does blue-rays and hd-dvds. I don't have a newer style. I have just polished blue-rays with no reported troubles. The type I have has a 3 phase sanding and 1 step polishing that you need to switch the pad out in between the phases, but the 3 phases took out really deep scratches. you could do about 25-50 discs on 1 sanding pad and my pads cost about $1.50 each and the polish pad cost $15 but you can polish 1000+ Discs on 1 polish pad. I can polish 95% of my disc and make them look like new. polishing takes between 1-2 mins each. one other cost is the polishing compound $35 for a quart but lasts about a 1000 discs. I normally have to buy a new quart when I replace the pad.
 
Short story, I have a three year old, and find myself needing a disc polisher.

Anybody that can recommend a good unit that's not abusively expensive?

-Hans

It's not cheap, but Azuradisc makes incredible disc resurfacers. They can make a horrible disc look brand new. Has buffing pads for light scratches all the way down to a wet sand sandpaper. You really need to see it to believe it.

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