Aleratec DVD/CD Disc Repair Plus | 
| Brand: Aleratec
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $36.95
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Rating:  91 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 6 x 5 x 2
MPN: 240121
Model: 240121
UPC: 808068002949
EAN: 0808068002949
ASIN: B0002A9SJ2
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Motorized Disc Repair Kit that Repairs all CDs and DVDs | | • | Easy as 1-2-3 Insert damaged disc put 3 drops of repair solution on the repair wheel press "Repair" | | • | Restores your damaged discs and protects your favorite rare or hard-to-find CD or DVD collections | | • | Can repair and clean up to 99% of all scratched discs | | • | 1-year limited warranty |
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Product Description
DVD/CD Disc Repair Plus is a patented, motorized system that can repair and clean up to 99% of all scratched DVDs, CDs, Game Discs, VCDs, DVD+Rs, DVD-Rs, DVD+RWs, DVD-RWs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs and Masters that are used in an Aleratec Duplicator, without the hassle that comes with a manual cleaning kit. It comes with three different sets of wheels - Repair, Cleaning, and Buffering making fixing scratches as easy as 1-2-3. Open the lid, put 3 drops of repair solution on the repair wheel, insert the scratched disc and press "Repair".
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| Customer Reviews: Read 86 more reviews...
 Fix your discs; don't ditch them! September 14, 2004
J. Sansoni (Merced, CA USA)
298 out of 305 found this review helpful
After a hard drive going bad scratched up several discs, I had two options...toss the old discs and buy new ones or invest in a disc repair kit. I started researching repair kits and was less than impressed with the plastic hand-held type that seemed most popular. Someone else had recommended this product, so I took a look.
Since there were no reviews at the time on Amazon, I did a more extensive look around the web for reviews of this product from Alera. I really never found any, but I was impressed with the fact that for about the same price as a competitor's hand-held unit, this one came with several different kits (cleaning, repair, etc.) and was fully automatic. So, I decided to buy it.
Wow, am I impressed! Within ten minutes of getting it home, I had it up and running and repairing a disc. Three minutes later, the damaged disc was playing again with no problems. I've repaired five discs so far and have cleaned about ten. The cleaning and repair kits are easy to use, though I'd recommend reading through ALL the instruction manual before beginning, as the simplest process (cleaning) is listed last in the manual.
This kit can repair CD, DVD and video game discs. Since the unit is fully automatic, all you do is screw in the repair wheels, add three drops of repair goop to one of the wheels, put your damaged disc in, close the lid and press the button that says "repair". Three minutes later, your disc should be fixed. Of course, this kit is not going to repair deep cracks or magically replace missing chunks of data, but for surface scratches that are causing your disc readers to come up with errors or producing glitches on your DVD player, this kit is wonderful. The cost of the item is more than made up in being able to save your collection of more expensive games, CDs or DVDs!
It actually works!!! May 11, 2005
Karen Pacini
108 out of 113 found this review helpful
Wow I have over 400 CD/DVDS some were in horrible shape I figured I'd have to buy new ones But, i came to Amazon and read the good reviews for this product and I bought it. Well, it works great!!! I repaired discs that had some bad scratches in them and thought hopeless!! Before throwing those old discs out give this product a try!! I am very happy!!! karen
 Instructions have a fatal error... here is the fix November 24, 2005
Larry Dunn (Pacific Palisades, CA United States)
92 out of 99 found this review helpful
I don't know yet how well the unit works. I have fixed one PS2 game that wasn't working for my daughter after only using the cleaning step. The 3 stars is because of the Instruction Manual error I describe below.
I purchased this kit, even after noting all the complaints about the instructions. I was gettting very frustrated, but after about half an hour confirmed the error which had me tied up in logical knots. The error is found on Page 6 "Disc Polishing (Buffing) Procedure. 1. Change the Pink buffing units (accessory 4)......"
The ERROR is that it SHOULD READ "1. Change TO the Pink buffing units ...". Huge difference between Change and Change TO.
I spend over half an hour trying to understand what color wheel I was supposed to change TO. All I knew was it wasn't pink. After a process of elimination, I've concluded the instruction book left out the word TO. Now having sorted that out, and other jumbled, out of order instructions, here is how the instruction book should read:
Most Damaged Disk:
1. Use Manual PINK cleaning Tool (p.3, C3 in the booklet). Then,
2. install the PINK disc in the machine per instructions on page 6: " E. Disc Polishing (Buffing) Procedure". Then,
3. remove the PINK dics and insert the Yellow discs in the machine per instructions on page 4: "D. Disc Repair Procedure". In this step you put 3 drops of solution from the white bottle marked "Repair Solution". Then,
4. remove the yellow discs and insert the Blue discs in the machine per instructions on page 7 "Disc Cleaning Procedure". This step involves putting cleaning fluid from the supplied white bottle marked "Cleaning Solution" into the space behind the blue two headed blue cleaning wheel.
Dirty or Slightly Damaged Discs: You can skip steps 1-3 and just do Step 4 above and see if that fixes the problem. If it doesn't, then do Step 3, followed by Step 4. If repeating Step 3 several times doesn't fix the problem, then do Steps 2, 3 and 4 in that order.
Anyway, what a bunch of bozos who wrote the instructions. When black = white, and good = evil, then "changing pink discs" as shown in the instructions, will equal "change TO pink discs".
Quite a good unit.... March 18, 2005
Ronald Watkins (Athens, GA United States)
42 out of 42 found this review helpful
I bought this based on other recommendations here. I'll add my own... it's quite good. I have owned a Gamedoctor, a Memorex motorized cleaner, and now this one, and I like this the best of the three.
The Gamedoctor always produced these weird patterns on the disk, and I didn't feel it did as good a job as it should. The Memorex works, but is very conservative and takes a long time to repair bad scratches.
This unit offers the best of both... it has dry buffing wheels, which remove quite a bit of the surface and leave an odd fishbone pattern (much like the Gamedoctor), but it also has polishing wheels that will then remove that pattern. (The Memorex has only the polishing wheels.) In essence, you get a combination of the Gamedoctor and the Memorex in one unit.
The Alera has has already returned one audio CD to perfect, bit-exact service, after two runs with its polishing wheel, that the Memorex didn't seem able to fix after five or six.
Note, however, that the instructions are incredibly bad, with no diagram of parts at all. There are loose wheels with little legs, and wheels that are pre-mounted on round plastic things. Those are carriers, which actually screw into the unit. When it's time to throw away a wheel and replace it, you pop it off the carrier and mount one of the spares.
To mount a carrier into the cleaning unit, you put it into one of the two big round holes, and spin it counterclockwise several times to screw it into place. You unscrew it to remove it. It will spin freely about three times and then snug down when you are inserting it.
The coarse pink wheels are for dry buffing. The smoother yellow wheels are for polishing, and are used with a provided solution. The blue wheels are for cleaning. It comes with 1 spare set of the yellow wheels. It also comes with a weird little red disk. This is a tool that you use in a manual, radial (center to outer edge, NOT along the laser path) motion to remove really bad scratches. Be careful with this one... if you grind down to the actual CD data layer, the disk is toast.
Overall, this is a very good unit, the best repair kit I've owned. I hope Amazon will carry the supplies for it. I think I'll be using this one awhile.
 It works, but March 20, 2006
R. Roten
39 out of 39 found this review helpful
I have a couple of scratched DVDs that I wanted to fix. After reading the reviews here and elsewhere, I ordered the Alera DVD/CD Disc Repair Plus.
I was able to successfully repair the two damaged DVDs, but it took hours of effort due to the poorly-written instructions that have been noted by others here.
I developed my own method for repairing one stubborn scratch I had on one of my DVDs. After determining that the repair mode alone (yellow pads) would not repair the scratch after a number of passes, I used the pink pads, followed by a number of passes with the yellow repair pads.
The problem with the repair process is that it is difficult to get the exact amount of repair polish on the disk. Too little, and the scratch is not repaired, too much and the disk doesn't play right. The instructions call for three drops of repair liquid to be applied to the pads. This works if the drops are exactly the right size. I found another way to get the amount just right.
Start with two drops of repair liquid, or three very small drops. Play the DVD at the spot in the movie where it skips, and see if it is fixed. If it is not fixed, run the disk through the repair process again, putting just one drop on the yellow pad this time. Play the DVD again to see if it is fixed. Repeat this procedure, one drop at a time until the skip is fixed. You do not have to clean the yellow pads in between passes (until you are finished with the repair). Do not wash the DVD between repair passes. Washing the DVD puts you back to square one.
The repair liquid seems to be a polish that works somewhat like wax. It appears to be similar to the polish/cleaner used ceramic stovetops. It fills in the scratches and polishes over the repaired area. Running a repaired DVD or CD through the disk cleaning cycle seems to clean off the repair polish, exposing the scratches once again.
So when your disk is repaired do not wash it in the future. If it needs to have dust cleaned off, wipe it off gently with a soft cloth. If you do need to wash the disk in the future, you will probably have to run it though the repair cycle again to reapply the polish to the disk's surface.
I hope this helps. The Alera machine does work, but it takes a lot of trial and error to figure out how to make it work due to the inadequacy of the instructions shipped with it.
A couple of other things not covered in the instructions, the cleaning and repair pads screw counter-clockwise into the machine. The wet and dry sides are not labled on the pads themselves, but on the machine. The wet cleaning pads do not have to be filled to 80 percent capacity like it says in the instructions. That is wasteful, unless you are cleaning a lot of DVDs or CDs all at once. A 20 percent fill works just as well. You are going to lose what cleaning liquid you don't use immediately due to evaporation.
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