Digital Innovations 10185 Skip Dr. Motorized AutoMax Scratch Repair System

by Digital Innovations

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.8 x 4.5 inches ; 1.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00080YK9Y
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• Item model number: 10185
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (266 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #22 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Audio & Video Accessories > Cleaning & Repair > Disc Repair Kits
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

Manufacturer's Notice

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Product Description

Automatic Repair Device includes AC power adapter, FlexiWheel, 1 fl. oz. Rejuvenating fluid, special drying cloth, felt buffing square, and detailed instruction manual

Customer Reviews

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171 of 172 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Save yourself some cranking, December 2, 2006

By 

Shane - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital Innovations 10185 Skip Dr. Motorized AutoMax Scratch Repair System (Electronics)

I have used the hand cranked version of product and its sister product the Skip Doctor to repair a few dozen CDs and DVDs. They have worked well in most cases. I use Exact Audio Copy to make MP3s. I have had disc show up with errors in EAC and then rip perfectly after a run through the Doctor.

The Doctors use a wet sanding technique to remove a layer of plastic over the whole surface of a disk to get remove scratches. It is not a spot polisher. The Doctors will not fix very deep scratches, but they will do a good job on light scratches, even if there are hundreds of them. Some times, even if a run through the Doctor does not completely remove a visible scratch, it will help enough to fix an error. You will notice that the disk will be covered with hundreds of very light radial sanding marks. These will buff out some with the included felt pad, but not completely. I have not had these cause a disk to play any worse than it was before.

Note: These machines WILL NOT repair Nintendo Game Cube games and other small form disks. The only disk I have had totally fail repair was a Game Cube game.

109 of 112 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Has been working fine, July 4, 2006

By 

Neil Serdinsky "yankee710" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Innovations 10185 Skip Dr. Motorized AutoMax Scratch Repair System (Electronics)

I bought this to clean up all of my kids DVDs. They have a ton of discs that are dirty, scratched, etc. I have cleaned over 30 discs so far and have fixed all but one (it was *really* scratched up).

I am suprised at the negative reviews on this item since I have considered this one of my smartest buys this year.

94 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works well, February 25, 2007

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D. Stell "dfstell" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Innovations 10185 Skip Dr. Motorized AutoMax Scratch Repair System (Electronics)

I bought this to try to fix some of my child's scratched up DVDs. It works well, but you might have to run a DVD through multiple times. Example: DVD that had a place where it skipped/got stuck towards the end. First run through, the DVD was terrible. YOu couldn't even watch any of it. I came very close to writing a terrible review. I ran it through a second time and the DVD was returned to its original condidtion without the skip being fixed at all. I ran it through a third time and the skip was almost completely fixed. Slight mess up in the audio and a few weird pixels on the screen. So, I ran it through again and I think its completely fixed.