Oddity Archive – Episode 143.5 – Ben’s Junk: Royal Disc Repair System

The second installment on CD cleaning/repair devices. Is it Royally good or Royal garbage?

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[willdoseago]

I had that exact same cleaner. I used toothpaste instead of the spray. It worked out well enough to get stolen.

[rkn]

If it's a deep scratch into the disk data substrate there is no recovery. You can polish it until the cows come home and the ones and zeros won't come back.

[FernieCanto]

I bet you're Royally disappointed.

(also, I like the pretentiousness of the name "Disc Repair System". Who designed this? Nintendo?)

[Rumtar]

I had this at one time, IT DID NOT WORK.

[oxymoronic-ephiphanies]

The mechanism reminds me one of those salad spinners

[jasonhaman]

On the bright side - I doubt "Hid M ow" is likely to hit a cntnt mtch.

[TheHunterPersian]

Oh god I had one of these exact same things. These things never worked. A game store near me has a machine meant for repairing discs though, and it's actually really good!

[matthewzepess]

these can still be found, i like them to give a really nasty disc a buff with a bit of that spray before putting it in a clean disc drive. But i wouldnt risk it on anything special or rare.

[vintagevhstreasures]

Ben, just get a JFJ Easy Pro. It costs around $130 but it’s worth it and you get better results.

[aaronz]

Buy that album on vinyl for 2 dollars. Buy the cd some were other than Amazon they want 13 dollars!

[ajtstvandmusicarchivechann]

I know your not big into video games but can please do a videp on the super famocom satela view? It was an add on for the snes that allowed you to download games books guides from the internet

[niklass]

again... your just as well to spit on it and wipe it off with your t-shirt. There is no difference.

[johnsweda]

These machines can be used in a different way to repair a CD by using a compound instead of the cleaner like a 0 swell. And if you can run it at 700 RPM even better putting it in a drill on slow setting

[Kuikkamies]

We had one of these back in the day. It was just for cleaning, never really for polishing or grinding the scratches away. However, I know there is another version that came with a white paste kind of thing, that asked to rung the thing for a minute or so, and that did do some polishing and did some slight scratches away. A nice blast from the past.

[Roboto]

These description of these types of units is misleading. They do nothing to "repair" the disc surface. All they are is a glorified disc cleaner. At the most all they will do is remove dust, dirt and finger prints off the disc surface. Any device that "repairs" the disc surface has to either buff the surface or remove a portion of it. I could tell just by looking at this unit as well as the discwasher unit, they were not going to effect the surface scratches one bit. If you really are looking for unit to remove scratches you need something like the Skip DR. or JFJ easy pro disc repair system. I have had both and found the JFJ to work the best.