I Bought A £3000 Disc Resurfacing Machine! IT'S AMAZING! 

I love this machine. I got one at work for our DVD library and it works great. it has been sold in the US under the RTI and ELM brands for those looking for one in the states. Keep in mind that these auto machines are meant to be used often, and if you go a week or two between uses you will find that the polishing compound will thicken/dry out a bit in the supply tube. You should purge the tube prior to use if it has been sitting awhile. Hold both the red and "5" buttons down simultaneously to enter the maintenance mode. Press "2" to run the polish compound pump forwards and "3" to run it backwards. To purge, I usually run it forwards for 10secs or so with a paper towel under the nozzle where the compound and water come out of to catch what squirts out. I usually run it until all the thick compound has come out and no compound continues to seep out after the pump has been stopped. You may recycle any thick compound by putting it back in the compound bottle reservoir and adding a tiny bit of water and shake the bottle to rehydrate it.

You should definitely mention in your listing that the disc has been refurbished.

You should mention on any listing that the discs been professionally cleaned.

I remember sending off some discs a few years back to have them resurfaced. They were mainly second hand ones I’d bought and were a bloody mess. They came back looking like new! I have no use for one these days, yet I’d still like to own one 😊

Seems very strange that it wants mineral water, which is full of impurities, rather than clean distilled water.

If I were a buyer, I'd personally like to know it is a refurbished disc. You should probably note that on listings.

That PS2 FIFA 08 game cleaned up amazingly well. Should be able to flip that one game and cover the cost of the resurfacing machine! :-)

That machine was not cheap but you cannot argue with the results. Wow! I have a resurfacing machine and it does an incredible job but the ease of use of your machine is on another level. As more and more people start to realize the problems of an all digital future I believe physical copies of games and movies are going to be more sought after. I love the fact it also does Gamecube games. My machine does not and Gamecube games really hold their value so that is outstanding. Thanks for sharing and congrats!

Buddy of mine owns a retro game store. He has the exact same machine. I can vouch for its effectiveness.

Thought the disc didnt look that great then i realised my tablet screen was dirty lol results are amazing never realised these machines existed ps2 games looked great blu rays are a nightmare to clean better than the toothpaste hack back in the day good luck with the rest of your collection

Great content mate always learning great break downs thank you

These machines are amazing, I used to own the model below this one it was more work because you had to remove each pad after each cycle but still got the same results just for a slightly cheaper price 😀

Wow that thing I'd nice. Back in like 2003 I had a manual one. It worked pretty well.

If you can get the grit specifications of each pad you might want to look at alternatives, "micro mesh" make very fine abrasives in very high grits, used for polishing polycarbonate and metal :)

I've had my JFJ Easy pro for 3 years now & once you get the hang of it you get excellent results. Huge bonus is there are many car polishes you can use which are cheaper than expensive compounds. The trick is to make sure the disc is wet so you don't burn through it 👍😊

"Four li'ah Wo'ah Bo'ah" Yes, Four liter Water bottle 😆

Really impressed, especially with the ps1 disc as they're difficult to clean. I have a cheaper machine. Does the job on xbox 360, og xbox, ps2, wii, but struggles with coloured discs like ps1. But it's good enough to get things traded to cex which is what I use it for.

Awesome machine tom, never have to worry about buying scratched discs at carboots anymore

Wow, that works way better than the Skip Dr hand crank one I used many ages ago! While it did work most of the time correcting disc errors, this machine is a whole other level!

Back in the 90s I worked for a marble and granite restoration company in The City so I'm familiar with the process of cutting/wet sanding and then re polishing surfaces which basically what this very expensive machine is doing. I just like to say that it's not that difficult to do by hand with the right chemicals and sanding pads so anybody who wants to polish up their collection and doesn't want to spend 1000s do some research on the process👍😎

A OCDs dream that office. That machine is great you can literally see the playstation logos after you cleaned them. Great investment. 👍

I am not sure if you want to put bluray through these. I have worked in Czech alternative to Game (JRC) and we were told not to do blurays due to the fact that there is a hardened scratch resistant glass-like layer on top that you'll polish off and the discs than scratch even easier or become cloudy and since the data is much denser on the bluray you basically doom it. The plastic below the top layer is very thin and once you go through it you are hitting data. A scratch on bluray that makes the disc inoperable means that no matter what you do you won't be able to save it. The machine may have a special program for blurays but trust me - you do not want to polish it at all if you care about longetivity of the disc. And if you insist on doing blurays, you should clean the pads between the rounds to not have leftover compound on them. Our machine was also BD compatible but after many customers returning we stopped doing BDs. Also do not wipe the compound off, wash it off under running water with a bit of dish soap and soft clean sponge that you wash out afterwards for best results. The compound is abrasive so wiping it will create scratches.

Nice looking machine!. Definitely looks like it beats the SkipDr I used 25 years ago. 😅

that machine is insane. wow, im amazed this works so well.

Thats so satisfying to see them come out so nice

That is so satisfying. Couple things I feel like mentioning is when you add the additive to the water, you should mix the bottle up after. Also you could probably make the pads last longer if your blast them out with compressed air, kind of like car detailers do. Hopefully save you some money from buying new pads

Very interesting! I love these special devices!

I used to have a Dr. Disc or whatever it was called that cost like $100 way back in the day that used to beautifully clear up scratches on discs. Super awesome.

Its been several years since I handled any optical discs. I still have a pretty large collection of DVD-Rs backing up data, but I already migrated that data to HDDs and to a cloud backup service. I would have continued to use optical discs to back up my data had the tech kept up with larger capacities.

Mate, absolutely insane. I can’t believe how immaculate they came out! New subscriber ✌🏻

That is a class machine, nice buy

A games shop I used to work in had a manual version of one of these and likely much earlier as it was around 2012ish. The pads were foam pads you had to stick the abrasive pads on

I remember when a place called Hastings would use one of these, and you could get handheld ones for personal use.

I use to go to the local magazene shop, they also sold games, and had a resurfacing machine and resurfaced 2 of my old ps2 games and an xbox360 game for free 🙌🙌 This definitely looks much bigger than the one I used.

I remember my local video rental store had one of these, and you could pay for disc resurfacing there but it was quite expensive. I got a game doctor myself, but the resurfacing spray was pretty expensive, and difficult to get hold of, but it worked pretty well, although the surface ends up a bit wavy afterwards. I also never knew there were two playstation logo's on the bottom of a ps2 disc, as i was only used to seeing the black ps1 one's, what an incredible job!

I used to operate a proper CD skimmer machine at a game shop quite a few years back when they first became available, not those crappy machines that just buffs CD's, & I have to agree whole heartedly, they are amazing! Chances are, whatever disc you put into to skim, they will be turned back into flawless factory condition. If I had a spare £3k, I would definitely buy one. I must of operated one of the first models because it resembled a top loading washer machine & I can still remember what it looked like all them years ago, going on for 20 years now!

What a phenomenal machine.

Tom, your content and video production is some of the best on RU-vid - superb!

all disc users need 1.. they would look after them better after putting in the graft... Or maybe it'll have the opposite affect 😅👍 cool stuff.

I want one. Just for satisfaction purposes only. I could sit there all day repairing discs.

I used to do this by hand with the finest compound for car painting and a ball of cotton.

My friends dad had one when we owned a shop they're quite amazing machines.

I'm subscribing because u seem like a very good person

Thanks for your sharing

Great bit of kit that is mate

I used to work at a record/CD shop and we used a similar machine. I agree with the other commenters that online you should prolly tell them.

Does a way better job than the old CD scratch removers that looked like a portable CD player, that I purchased in the 90s.

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What a machine! Scratched discs are so frustrating. It would be interesting to see if the machine could fix a non-playing disc.

You should show you trying to load the game before/after buffing

that does look good!

Wow marvelous machine n quite expensive too

So cool!

Well done m8 Game Preservation is more important than ever

Great machine

I had my ps1 discs resurfaced and came back clean as hell but would not boot at all. Tbf it had deep scratches so I imagine they polished the data bumps right off lol. This was back in 2008 though.

Great bit of kit! I’m jealous mate 😂

I hope you do some restoration of consoles as well. Some examples are gameboy clean/restoration, xbox capacitor replacement, deep cleaning ps1/ps2, retrobrite gamecube/snes.

I do some resurfacing. Every game I resurface I make sure I put that in the listing, as well, and I always test them out. Sometimes you can get a beautifully non scratched disc, but won't boot after the fact.

Thats a cool machine!

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3000?? I worded in radio for 25 years. Machines like this topped out at 500 in the mid 90's. WOW!!

Ive been doing this for nearly 2 decades with a bench grinder with a pilishing wheel and some plastic polishing compound.

How about a measurement of the thickness before and after various cds, dvds and blu ray repair

Hi, was that the full price you paid you shown, as i noticed on their site the listing page doesn't show price with vat, but when you go to checkout then the vat is added, so it costs more than you think when you checkout ?

wow that is very impressive

Very interesting and a great machine that really does the job properly a lot of negative comments here the outer plastic layer on CDs is thick enough most scratches are not deep .I didn't realise those game discs were so collectable and valuable good for your business

As someone who has used this machine now for 5 years, you can cheat a bit when fixing a very heavily scratched bluray. Run the bluray disc on the CD setting for a 2 and then switch to the bluray pad for a 4, and you will get great results. I've even used a 3 CD setting before then bluray for a very heavy fix, and the disc played perfectly still! Hope this helps!

Can I clean my game disc with disinfecting wipes, washing it over the sink, and using a paper towel to dry it? One huge problem i'm having when drying the disc with a Paper Towel is the white stuff on the disc. I did inspect it by using a flashlight or my house lights to see. & it's not coming off. Water and Disinfecting Wipes have no issues on the disc whatsoever. But when I want to dry if off, I don't have anything else. So is it worth doing that?

Nice review!

very nice! CDs like new :)

I used to own some unreadably scratched discs for PC and PS1. They likely thrown away by now. Looking at this machine makes me think if there was a chance to actually repair them

For the two PS2 games, it leaves a mark in the central spine. Was it removable with the cloth or not? Because some resurfacers does scratch the central part which Can be noticed by anyone who are familiar with resurfaced discs.

Yo Simply amazing, this making me want to sell games.

Now we need disk creator machine 😂

Damn, nice machine!

Impressive equipment🙂👍

Great machine, this should have existed 20 years ago. Nowadays I don't have a single optical media at home, I went full digital after most of my burned dvds started going bad.

Do you offer a disc cleaning service ? i have some dvd,s with pictures on from holidays 15yr ago and disc is scratched with age... i have around 5-10 discs that need doing ? ebay seller does it for £2.73 inc return postage cost. per disk over 5 number.

Looks like in the long run it should pay for itself 👍

Now, the question is how to remove scratches from the inner spindle so people don't know they've been resurfaced, hmm...

Looks like a nice piece of equipment you have there! Only questions I would have is if it’s worth cleaning games like old FIFAs or just doing more valuable ones? And would you then list them as like new in the description instead of preowned/used?

I only recommend doing this on games that do not work on consoles with good lasers. The CDs may look great after doing this, but they may be worse. I've tried this method a few times and ended up ruining a few games. The problem is that the distance the light of the laser has to travel inside the CD diminishes and that affects if the CD works or not.

i have been thinking of getting one for years but seemed to much hassle,so found a store and just pay when i need some doing.Have you seen the ones some you tubers in the u s use does 50 discs cost about 15k?

I don't even know about machine like that one 😮 🙊 its god damn impressive how it's working and cleaning this all disc's to the perfection 🫢 bro it's worth this money i think !! Even if you get very scratchy disc it work good

Bruuh when the disc came out 🤩

What an amazing machine and the job is 1st class was worth a subscribe 😂

Alien game can sell up to £250 depending on condition etc, the hidden Backup Game Launcher on the disc has been unveiled and has made the cost sky rocket.

i think you can make those pad , looks like normal home depot or car tool stuffs.

I bought a tdr hybrid 2 for the expensive sum of £50 😅😅 all it needed was new lines its brilliant

It is only the low production volumes that make this machine expensive; what it actually does is in theory very simple: sanding with a rinsing/lubricating agent, and then polishing with a polishing compound. You can achieve much the same by hand but it takes more time and experience/practice to get a similar finish; the real money (labour) saver is that this thing does its magic in only a few minutes whilst you can do something else.

the machine clean and resurface the area that how it works, it turn your old beat up disc to brand new, but don't hope the bad disc would work again

This machine at the local Blockbuster saved me a game that my xbox 360 chewed...

Here in the states thats a eye gouging $7,000 machine. 😮 DAM !!!!!!!

I have one of these machines. They're great, but the maintenance can be costly.

You should only be using distilled water because spring water contains minerals that will coat the valves and tubes of the machine with residue and eventually impair it's function. Mineral water is water containing various minerals and is often sourced from springs, while distilled water is vapor-condensed water with impurities and minerals removed.

Is there such a thing that after polishing a disk one could put a layer of epoxy coating to raise its thickness back to pre polish? Then if it gets scratched again down the road the process can be repeated.

great video 👍

Nice machine 😊

I tried to have a disk fixed at family video. Stupid thing ate through the plastic and into the data layer. The game it ruined was klonoa door to pantomile for ps1. Before the remakes came out it was impossible to find for under 200