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Clean your CD'S/DVD's with Toothpaste!

Now this may sound crazy but trust me it works!, forget all these fancy CD cleaning devices and drive cleaning CD’s all you need is a good old tube of toothpaste.

Just squeeze a blob about the same amount as you would normally put on your toothbrush. Now run it under the hot tap and start to gently rub the toothpaste all over the CD’s surface and it should do its magic on removing the scratches.

Anyway as the water gets luke-warm it will start to get easier but I guess don’t let the water get too hot as we all know CD’s and DVD’s don’t like high temperatures and you may end up doing more harm than good.

This even worked on a CD i'd had lying around for about 5 years and probably has more scratches than a dog with fleas and it would never load. But would you believe it after trying this toothpaste thing it actually loaded just enough for me to get some files off , woohoo!

And remember don’t forget to brush those sprogs everyday!

Comments (33)

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Posted by: your mom on 19/06/2008

you guys are all fags

Posted by: me on 25/05/2008

There are scratches and SCRATCHES. If you got the latter it will not work. Taking care of your disks will make a big difference. Where is the value in things these days?

Posted by: Otto on 20/05/2008

hmmmmm............:S.........u say tamato i say t0mat0:P....lets put the paste t0 the test:P

Posted by: wabbit:P on 15/05/2008

sure i tryed it but fuck it ...it doesnt work for all u people that say it does it must be a miricle and i prob worked all along and you cleaned before u tryed

Posted by: ps2 man on 11/05/2008

if you're reading this, you may be a douchebag

Posted by: JQUEST on 06/05/2008

Lol, i felt like palying on crash abndicoot one ps1 disc that hadentt worked for five years..and guess wehat? it worked! *haijulah*

Posted by: MaTtHeW on 28/04/2008

I've tried it with a number of discs and it definately doesn't do any harm and fixed at least 2 discs that previously wouldn't work

Posted by: Anonymous on 04/04/2008

DOES IT WORK ? Cuz I don't wana damage my dvd's.

Posted by: Anonymous on 09/03/2008

So much hate. It's your fault, and only your fault if you mess up your discs.

Posted by: Anonymous on 29/02/2008

I scratched my X Box 360 game of Halo 3 because i tipped the consolea bit. The scratches are not that deep tgough, so will it work on it?

Posted by: Anonymous on 13/02/2008

I tried it and it works, the fluride in the tothpaste gets inbetween the scratches and cleans it up even after running warm water over it it won't come off my cd's play better and my ps2 games now play alll the way thru

Posted by: Dr Toothaman on 30/01/2008

You guys must be doing something wrong, seemed to help alot of my old discs

Posted by: HaloGuy on 27/01/2008

f**k u people it doent work i tried 23 time it didnt work

Posted by: wasif on 26/01/2008

it stops when i put it in my ps2 liers

Posted by: moss on 26/01/2008

liers i tried lik 40-50 times it stil didnt work

Posted by: muhammed on 26/01/2008

Using a toothbrush scratched the cd way more than it was before.

Posted by: Anonymous on 22/01/2008

WTF killer if it worked it worked dnt think toothpaste has a timelimit haha

Posted by: Anonymous on 16/01/2008

dis is som kind of bull shit it only worked for 30 mins

Posted by: killer on 15/01/2008

its bull crap ive tried this over and over again and it still doesnt work . ive looked up every toothpaste method and which way to rub and nothing works the onl way to clean scratches is put a little bit of dish washing diturgent and let it sit for 10 mins and then put warm running water onto it and then wash it of with your finure it only woks for light scratches

Posted by: anonymouse on 15/01/2008

what a load of crap

Posted by: Anonymous on 14/01/2008

omg it's so awsome i waiting for my man to fuck me contact me at sinfex@yahoo.com

Posted by: i like dicks on 24/11/2007

People who say this doesn't work are idiots and probably used the wrong kind of toothpaste. Toothpaste and 'drive cleaning'-paste has about the same ingredients, thats why both work just fine. You could also try to clean your tooth with drive cleaning pasta, but I don't think you'd like to spend about 5 to 10 euros on something that doesn't taste nicely..

Posted by: Kirth on 19/09/2007

Did you do it exactly how its explained with warm water as it has worked for me many times and I guess if you cd has very deep scratches it wount stand a chance anyway :P

Posted by: Ben on 07/09/2007

you stupid liars it doesent work

Posted by: awsomeman1234363564 on 06/09/2007

im going to try it today and tell if it works

Posted by: awsomeman1243463564 on 06/09/2007

horse poop

Posted by: ride 2 on 19/08/2007

Strange as well awesome..... LOL !!! can anybody let me know, is it really working?

Posted by: Shailesh mistry on 31/07/2007

Gel toothpaste (the one with sparkles) doesn't work :<

Posted by: Wilmi on 18/07/2007

LOL! Awesome! i can use it for my Halo 2 disc

Posted by: Max (synergygfx.net) on 06/07/2007

Anyone know the science behind it? I guess fluoride does more than just clean our teeth!

Posted by: AK on 02/07/2007

strange as it seems, it actually works

Posted by: Anonymous on 23/06/2007

someone told me about this before but I've never tried I will now hehe

Posted by: Anonymous on 20/05/2007

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