I'm kind of an idiot. I was repairing a playstation longbox (Jumping Flash) that had the plastic CD holder spindle broken off. This is one of the cardboard and plastic longboxes where the spindle is built into the case and you can't simply just take out the insert like in the saturn style longboxes. I felt pretty good with myself with how I transplanted and glued in a CD holder from a different jewelcase into the longbox with loctite super glue. After letting it sit for an hour everything seemed pretty solid and dried so I put the CD on the new glued in spindle and packed up the game. 24 hours later I open up the case and the CD has all kinds of glue residue on it. Guess I shouldn't have closed it up so soon. Most noticeable is the white glue residue around the inner ring, but about 1/3 of the bottom of the disc has a noticeable "cloud" on it from the glue residue. Some residue is also on the label side of the disc. I wiped it a couple times with isopropyl alcohol and scrubbed gently with toothbrush, but that doesn't seem to take the cloud off, and after the alcohol dries, the white ring returns. I would have thought the disc would be totaled, but a quick 30 minute test shows it booting up and playing just fine, even with streaming FMV and music, and even when the laser would be reading through the cloud. Edit: I tried acetone now as well, but that didn't really clean the glue residue off and actually made the bottom of the disc look worse. I just played through the entire game with no problems though so I guess PS1s have pretty capable lasers. So now I've got an ugly but functional disc. Is there anything that might help with cleaning the super glue residue off the disc? I've never sent a disc to be resurfaced, would that take a small layer of plastic off, and thereby get rid of the glue residue?
Good suggestion, it helped reduce the noticeableness of the white ring but somehow seemed to make the cloudy area seem worse.
Pharmacy grade petrol might do the trick. It might also make it worse but it will dissolve the superglue. Then maybe polish the surface with novus or simmilar.
That won't work for the centre of the disc Before you start messing with the game, grab a blank or crappy cd and put some super glue on it... Test on that
Ok challange accepted! Tried it on a crappy cdr copy of dracula x rondo of blood. Added small dot of super glue. Smeared it. Let it dry. Added pharmacy grade petrol with cue tip. Result: i shouhld have added more petrol. The surface was a bit scratched as the petrol dried up (glue perchipitated). Other then that it works just fine. The petrol dissolves the glue not the surface unlike acetone or acetonitrile. Prove me wrong
Just my 2 cents: CD have actually pretty impressive error corrections for "lost bits" aka unreadable bits. You could punch small holes in a cd with a drill and it'd work given healthy laser. IIRC it's 8 to 9 mm for lost bits and 2 to 3 for wrong bits. (It's harder to figure out that a bit is wrong and correct it than to find the proper bit if it's unreadable.) I wouldn't try to fix your current disc if it works, you mainly risk making it worse.
