How to repair/buff a disc for cheap

I went to GameStop the other day and paid $7.99 for 2 fluid ounces of their "disc skip liquid". After about the 4th day of using it (And this stuff really works great, by the way) I found the smell to be really familiar, but I just couldn't place it. Yesterday, about 2 weeks after I bought the stuff, I placed the smell: Lotion. If you think about it, it doesn't sound as crazy as it seems. Lotion is a mild abrassive (Gets off those  dead skin cells. But enough gross-ness), it's slightly greasy so it polishes well. It was one of those things were I smacked my forehead and went "Doh!" after. But enough talk. Let's repair those discs, shall we?

Step 1 The materials

Get these materials (Usually you'll have them lying around your house):
-Lotion (Of course)
-microfiber cloth (Their very soft. Screen cleaing cloths, and eyeglass cloths are both microfiber. Wanna go cheaper? Take a baby wipe and let it dry for a couple of hours. Boom! Soft polishing cloth)
-You're injured disc. It can be a CD, DVD, video game (including teeny-tiny GameCube ones).
-Something to put under that disc to catch excess lotion, such as toilet paper, a wash cloth, towels, etc.

Comments

[mstar010]

It is weird, about after an hour of polishing (it may have taken me longer) I got a scratched disk that wouldn't even load be fully operational. After my success I played the game for a while (I bought it on eBay then got a refund because it didn't work), then I tried it on another game. I got it to work a little better although it still is messed up after scrubbing for maybe 45 minutes.

I am going to try to use PB then I will use lotion again if it doesn't work.

Although thanks for your instuctable!

[R.A.T.M]

i works i have a metal gear game best series ever i plaed it so much it wold not work but i fixed it

snake eater

[videogamemaster]

Nice. Glad to hear it worked for you!

[R.A.T.M]

thank you so much you have no idea

[videogamemaster]

Heh, no problem!

[R.A.T.M]

could i re make you instrictable

[videogamemaster]

Well, I would appreciate it if you didn't, but you can send me some pics of how well it worked and I'll post 'em and give you credit?

[R.A.T.M]

may i ask why and i will giv you credit and a link to yours dont worri bout that

[videogamemaster]

Well... Ok, fine. As long as you give credit, go ahead and make the Instructable. You have my permission.

[silencekilla]

Please post your own pictures so we know that this actually works. Thank-You.

[videogamemaster]

Yeah, I will soon.

[Ranie-K]

So these are your pictures?

[videogamemaster]

Not ones that I took at home, no. I can't get my pictures off of my piece o' crap camera (Which happens to be my Nintendo DSi video game system), so I'm just using generic ones here. After I figure out how to get the pics off, then I'm going to post my own pictures