CD Repair Tools

[Adam]

I'm looking at getting something to fix up some discs of mine, I've found this on Gameplay, but it only got 5/10 from 100+ user ratings. Anyone know any decent CD repair tools?

[charlesr]

That one works a treat for light scratches and scuffing that cause skipping.
If you have deeper grooves (yeah baby!) it can't help.

[mid]

The best ones by far are the ludicrously expensive machines that you really can't afford. But you probably can afford to get them done by a shop with one. Several places do mail-order disc cleaning, as do some indie video rental shops. My one certainly does; the 2nd-hand ZOE I foolishly failed to look at first from a car-boot sale went from looking like it had been assaulted by a porcupine and failing to get past the Konami logo to minty fresh and playing perfectly.

[Sketcz]

I once bought the "Disc Dr" disc fixer.
Absolute trash.

The thing worked by removing the top layer of the CD and left awful scuff marks over everything. I was hoping to use it "remint" some game discs as it were. Trust me, your discs would be worthless after using that thing.
Luckily I tested it on an old crapy DVD first.
Thing was ruined and wouldnt play properly anymore.

I would avoid those cheap disc fixers like the plague!

EDIT:
Only just clicked the link, thats it! Thats the one, the big green one with a wheel.
Resurfacing is a fancy way of saying "scratches the top layer of plastic clean off"
Stay AWAY! From my experience it is a terrible lump of plastic, after it ruined my DVD film I returned it right back to the store.

You have been duly warned.

[Lyris]

Seconded, the thing is utter nads. All it does is scuff the disc up more really, and the instructions apologize for this as if it's a minor problem. I was suspicious so I tested it on a CD-R first, it made it even more unreadable.

[Dogg Thang]

Well I have one of those and I love it. Yep, it makes the disks look awful so it's no good if you're looking to sell your games but it has fixed every cd I ever tried it with except for one that had the mother of all scratches on it.

Dogg.

[Adam]

Seems like a load of rubbish then, been reading reviews about the net and I've heard all over the place that it ****s up discs rather than fix them. I only want to remint a couple of discs like otaku84, I don't really own much THAT messed up to buy this then

Cheers

[EvilBoris]

check out perfectplay.co.uk, these machines totally kick ass, we've got one at work and it will make even the skankiest scuffed up pieces o' crap look like mint again.

[kotatsuneko]

or try the toothpaste trick..