it's not that you're getting toothpaste inside the scratches, it's the fact that toothpaste is basically polishing paste and you need to add a little then buff it out with a cloth just like any other polishing job. It's smoothing out the surface, taking away a thin layer of plastic and making the grooves less pronounced. So it's not the toothpaste that's doing the "magic" It's the polishing. No need to use that much toothpaste, just put a pea-sized drop on the cloth and spread it and with a dry, clean cloth buff it out as best as you can. Hope this clears things up!
Toothpaste doesn't fill little gaps to make discs readable again. It's likely just helping to clean out the cracks from the little dust particles to make the disc readable again. If you truly want to fix the issue, you have to really polish the disc. You can use a super fine grit sand paper (~2500) and then fine polishing paste (~8000 grit) or even toothpaste for that second part, but you have to get rid of the actual scratches first. If you don't sand them down with sandpaper, you'd just be cleaning out scratches forever. Toothpaste has a grit to it but if you're not actually agitating them to the point of moving it in a circular motion to remove scratches, it won't do anything. The grit on toothpaste is obviously different for each type, but it's not nearly as much as sandpaper and would take forever to remove the scratches.
I tried it with toothpaste crest on my old games ps2 and the ps1 and the scratch is deep I just hope it comes off maybe I need polish if that helps if not I'm going need to new game it's a circular one
@@XboxBoomer117 i tried it way later but it didnt really work, but i do doubt the exact way i did it, im afraid i sanded down the disc instead of fixing it lol
it's not that you're getting toothpaste inside the scratches, it's the fact that toothpaste is basically polishing paste and you need to add a little then buff it out with a cloth just like any other polishing job. It's smoothing out the surface, taking away a thin layer of plastic and making the grooves less pronounced. So it's not the toothpaste that's doing the "magic" It's the polishing. No need to use that much toothpaste, just put a pea-sized drop on the cloth and spread it and with a dry, clean cloth buff it out as best as you can. Hope this clears things up!
It's just abrasive, using any car polish would be better as it has grades of abrasiveness, there's nothing 'magic' about toothpaste.
@DavidB-rx3km for some reason I thought that car polish would be more aggressive/abrasive than toothpaste.
@@gevelegian no you can get really abrasive to stuff that feels like face cream!
Just a FYI: I've used a micro polish for cars with great results. I've even used Brasso on really bad disk to get them to read.
Toothpaste doesn't fill little gaps to make discs readable again. It's likely just helping to clean out the cracks from the little dust particles to make the disc readable again. If you truly want to fix the issue, you have to really polish the disc. You can use a super fine grit sand paper (~2500) and then fine polishing paste (~8000 grit) or even toothpaste for that second part, but you have to get rid of the actual scratches first. If you don't sand them down with sandpaper, you'd just be cleaning out scratches forever. Toothpaste has a grit to it but if you're not actually agitating them to the point of moving it in a circular motion to remove scratches, it won't do anything. The grit on toothpaste is obviously different for each type, but it's not nearly as much as sandpaper and would take forever to remove the scratches.
Definitely trying this.
dont
@@Casp3r.aka.Droid. Its a FRESH take. Came out looking MINTY.
Yea, this is also the advice Netflix would give you when you reported a faulty disk before sending it back.
If this is true, that's awesome
I tried it with toothpaste crest on my old games ps2 and the ps1 and the scratch is deep I just hope it comes off maybe I need polish if that helps if not I'm going need to new game it's a circular one
The game has its own themed disc read error message?
I had to buy multiple copies of the same disc as a kid after they stopped working ):
Too bad I didn't know this method, thanks xbox boomer!
@@geuxmer2355Sad, I've done it many times myself. No problem, hope it helps
@@XboxBoomer117 i tried it way later but it didnt really work, but i do doubt the exact way i did it, im afraid i sanded down the disc instead of fixing it lol
Never works for me 👎 my copy of Spyro almost stopped working when i did this.
😢
Definitely not trying this.
go to a game store to fix it do not do this lol
do not do this lol 😂 😂