I've been slowly binging all your videos and have to say, by far, you are my favorite TH-camr who does this kind of work. Hands down! I can't figure out how you only have 317 subscribers [I'm one of them!], but it should be in the thousands. You give great info, down to earth, and show each step. The repetition helps a lot too as I don't yet have the JFJ and I feel I already know how to use it! :) I am bummed one has to have an adapter for the GC games, but it makes sense. I have 100s of game discs to repair, including dozens of GC [and some $150+ GC games]. When I do get this unit and all the supplies, I will be going through cheap old Xbox 360 games first to make sure I get used to the process. I've been selling on Amazon since 2008 and eBay since 2011, though games have mostly been an eBay thing. I assumed Amazon gated most game publishers like they are slowly doing to book publishers [a 10 year out of print book by a certain publisher needs an invoice from a distributor dated in the last 90 days with at least 10 copies of said book - unsure Amazon realizes that finding used books doesn't work like that! ;) ]. I also sell media [DVD/Blu-ray/CD/VHS/etc]. Curious if the steps you've shown in your video need any adjusting for certain media types. Double layer DVD games? Watched a video before this one where you did some PS2 games and started them to make sure they work - you did Grand Turismo 3 and aaaah - you and I have the same feeling about that game - brings back great memories - those graphics were so cutting edge - how could they ever get better? I still have my original PS2 [and PS1!]] and my games and that's one I won't ever sell! :) Again thank you so much for these informative videos. I'm slowly getting the items in my Amazon cart to buy. I think I will go with the Meguiars but since I have neither - is there one system you prefer over the other? Eg: Meguiars vs 3D or 3M? Going to head to Harbor Freight this weekend to get the pads [Bauer - unless you've found something better? I need to binge your videos most recent to older, but sadly I'm not doing that just yet! :) ]. Oh, you mentioned you and a buddy have a review channel - where is that? And your Walmart/Amazon Storefront? I feel like I gotta do something to give back for all the great advice you've provided us!
I really appreciate all the kind words and so happy you found even a small part of these videos helpful. I would suggest going with the 3D products because they do not have fillers in them. The fillers can mess with the discs sometimes. Not often but its best to avoid them if possible. So Walmart doesn’t really do storefronts for sellers like Amazon does. Basically its all just you get the order if you have the best price and best shipping usually. You are fine though. No need to purchase anything from me. I honestly don’t make these to promote sales or anything. I really just enjoy people getting anything helpful from them. Also, yes GT3 is the greatest lol. You are a person of class lol 😂.
@@GamingRenewedLLC If we ever meet, a drink/meal/whatever, is on me! You're far too kind! And also a person of class as GT3 is amazing. You inspired me to get it out and play it a bit the other day. Man...I need to reward myself after Q4 is over, and spend some quality time with that game again! :) Thank you for your 3D suggestion! I will be watching the video where you use 3D and check it out. I really should have done this months ago. :( But I thought I would try the manual method of fixing discs and the time and results were not impressive [tons of time, no real results]. Amazon is a bit like Walmart in that way - nobody really visits sellers' storefronts - they just look to see if the used/new copy of an item is a better price and such. I've never thought about Walmart as an option. I sell on Amazon, eBay, and Bricklink [Lego marketplace only]. Thank you again for all your useful info and recommendations and these great videos. If you ever find yourself in western NC [we got hit pretty hard by a hurricane recently :( ], let me know!
lol 😂 thanks bro. If you end up playing GT3 make sure you do the endurance race to get the Indy car lol. It just may be the most OP thing in a GT game. Hope everything works out for you bro and hope things get back to normal down there in NC. Stay safe
*UPDATE*: Another thing to note is since the GC discs only touch the outside of your pad they only wear that outside as well. So if you are doing a lot of GC discs it can wear down the outside of the pad and then when you go to do a regular sized disc you will not get full contact with the pad due to the outside of it now being lower than normal. I would recommend using one pad only for GC discs and another for the rest of the discs, so you don’t get that issue. Also, i wouldn’t recommend JFJ pads to be either of them lol 😂.
dont have many Gamecube games, dont have gamecube but got a Wii system that plays Gamecube. Think the kity to exspensive being arund £60 shipped to UK. So that will have to wait for a while befor i buy one direct from USA ac cant find them anywhere in the UK
Yea same here regarding not really having many GameCube games. I just don’t come across many and don’t actively search for them either. It’s definitely only worth it if you have a lot of GameCube games and basically buy a second machine to keep as the GameCube one
I found the adapter is just $9.99 without the pads. But quick question - why not use the sanding pads for that super scratched GC disc then the buffing pads? Are GC discs too fragile to sand?
Yea i didn’t know about the adapter being sold alone at the time. Wish i had lol. You can sand GC games. I honestly should re-do the video on GC games because i don’t feel it was the best. I need to do one and incorporate sanding as well.
@@GamingRenewedLLC Glad to know GC games can be sanded! I have some that look even worse than that super bad one you did on your GC video! And I think that's the super valuable one in my GC haul! :O Thank you!
It can but you have to use the GameCube adapter plate or else it will cut into the pads. I didn’t get a chance to try the bauer pads with GC games but i will try it out and post a video. The bauer pads are thicker so that may/may not cause issues
hey man what are the mcguiars compounds to use? i see u have a few different ones. for all disks, i bought this machine and have been trying figure out best to use and when to use each.
No. I did just buy some 3D compound and polish which will be here tomorrow. Gonna do a video on those to see how they perform. Apparently they are really highly regarded in the automotive detail industry.
A cheaper alternative that I own, I feel would be much better than buying that kit is the elm gamecube disc adapter its around $15 and you can use the regular pads and don't have to worry about any conversion kits. Before in the early 2000's there used to be a bunch if them floating around for dirt cheap but elm in recent times is where you can get it from. I tried out the meguiars liquids when I first got my machine. It turned out okay but when I switched to the 3M perfect it series I never looked back bro. The jfj compounds are trash 🗑 it took me numerous runs to fix a heavy scratched disc to get it barely working. With the 3M it was 1 run and done! Once my pads are done for, I'll look into the bauer pads but so far My meguiars Dff5 finishing pad has been doing me a lot of justice.
Yea i the JFJ stuff is horrible. This 3D compound and polish has been doing great but i will get some of the 3M perfect it and give that a shot. Always good to have multiple options to use in case something gets changed or no longer available. I’m getting that pad you mentioned as well.
I've been slowly binging all your videos and have to say, by far, you are my favorite TH-camr who does this kind of work. Hands down! I can't figure out how you only have 317 subscribers [I'm one of them!], but it should be in the thousands. You give great info, down to earth, and show each step. The repetition helps a lot too as I don't yet have the JFJ and I feel I already know how to use it! :) I am bummed one has to have an adapter for the GC games, but it makes sense. I have 100s of game discs to repair, including dozens of GC [and some $150+ GC games]. When I do get this unit and all the supplies, I will be going through cheap old Xbox 360 games first to make sure I get used to the process.
I've been selling on Amazon since 2008 and eBay since 2011, though games have mostly been an eBay thing. I assumed Amazon gated most game publishers like they are slowly doing to book publishers [a 10 year out of print book by a certain publisher needs an invoice from a distributor dated in the last 90 days with at least 10 copies of said book - unsure Amazon realizes that finding used books doesn't work like that! ;) ]. I also sell media [DVD/Blu-ray/CD/VHS/etc]. Curious if the steps you've shown in your video need any adjusting for certain media types. Double layer DVD games?
Watched a video before this one where you did some PS2 games and started them to make sure they work - you did Grand Turismo 3 and aaaah - you and I have the same feeling about that game - brings back great memories - those graphics were so cutting edge - how could they ever get better? I still have my original PS2 [and PS1!]] and my games and that's one I won't ever sell! :)
Again thank you so much for these informative videos. I'm slowly getting the items in my Amazon cart to buy. I think I will go with the Meguiars but since I have neither - is there one system you prefer over the other? Eg: Meguiars vs 3D or 3M? Going to head to Harbor Freight this weekend to get the pads [Bauer - unless you've found something better? I need to binge your videos most recent to older, but sadly I'm not doing that just yet! :) ]. Oh, you mentioned you and a buddy have a review channel - where is that? And your Walmart/Amazon Storefront? I feel like I gotta do something to give back for all the great advice you've provided us!
I really appreciate all the kind words and so happy you found even a small part of these videos helpful. I would suggest going with the 3D products because they do not have fillers in them. The fillers can mess with the discs sometimes. Not often but its best to avoid them if possible.
So Walmart doesn’t really do storefronts for sellers like Amazon does. Basically its all just you get the order if you have the best price and best shipping usually. You are fine though. No need to purchase anything from me. I honestly don’t make these to promote sales or anything. I really just enjoy people getting anything helpful from them.
Also, yes GT3 is the greatest lol. You are a person of class lol 😂.
@@GamingRenewedLLC If we ever meet, a drink/meal/whatever, is on me! You're far too kind! And also a person of class as GT3 is amazing. You inspired me to get it out and play it a bit the other day. Man...I need to reward myself after Q4 is over, and spend some quality time with that game again! :)
Thank you for your 3D suggestion! I will be watching the video where you use 3D and check it out. I really should have done this months ago. :( But I thought I would try the manual method of fixing discs and the time and results were not impressive [tons of time, no real results].
Amazon is a bit like Walmart in that way - nobody really visits sellers' storefronts - they just look to see if the used/new copy of an item is a better price and such. I've never thought about Walmart as an option. I sell on Amazon, eBay, and Bricklink [Lego marketplace only].
Thank you again for all your useful info and recommendations and these great videos. If you ever find yourself in western NC [we got hit pretty hard by a hurricane recently :( ], let me know!
lol 😂 thanks bro. If you end up playing GT3 make sure you do the endurance race to get the Indy car lol. It just may be the most OP thing in a GT game.
Hope everything works out for you bro and hope things get back to normal down there in NC. Stay safe
This person ROCKs Awesome videos GREAT explanations LOTs of useful details Thank you
Thanks 🙏🏽
*UPDATE*: Another thing to note is since the GC discs only touch the outside of your pad they only wear that outside as well. So if you are doing a lot of GC discs it can wear down the outside of the pad and then when you go to do a regular sized disc you will not get full contact with the pad due to the outside of it now being lower than normal.
I would recommend using one pad only for GC discs and another for the rest of the discs, so you don’t get that issue. Also, i wouldn’t recommend JFJ pads to be either of them lol 😂.
Something to add, you can just buy the adapter for 10 plus shipping. Since the difference in pads is negligible, I’m going this route.
Yea true. I had to buy the “gamecube” pads to figure out they actually are the same pad lol. Typical JFJ experience lol.
You put in the work to save me. Thanks much!
Lol 😆 happy to help
dont have many Gamecube games, dont have gamecube but got a Wii system that plays Gamecube. Think the kity to exspensive being arund £60 shipped to UK. So that will have to wait for a while befor i buy one direct from USA ac cant find them anywhere in the UK
Yea same here regarding not really having many GameCube games. I just don’t come across many and don’t actively search for them either. It’s definitely only worth it if you have a lot of GameCube games and basically buy a second machine to keep as the GameCube one
I found the adapter is just $9.99 without the pads. But quick question - why not use the sanding pads for that super scratched GC disc then the buffing pads? Are GC discs too fragile to sand?
Yea i didn’t know about the adapter being sold alone at the time. Wish i had lol. You can sand GC games. I honestly should re-do the video on GC games because i don’t feel it was the best. I need to do one and incorporate sanding as well.
@@GamingRenewedLLC Glad to know GC games can be sanded! I have some that look even worse than that super bad one you did on your GC video! And I think that's the super valuable one in my GC haul! :O Thank you!
Hopefully you can bring it back to looking good!
Can Meguiar’s 105/205 be used on GameCube games? Also have you tried the Bauer pads on them?
It can but you have to use the GameCube adapter plate or else it will cut into the pads. I didn’t get a chance to try the bauer pads with GC games but i will try it out and post a video. The bauer pads are thicker so that may/may not cause issues
hey man what are the mcguiars compounds to use? i see u have a few different ones. for all disks, i bought this machine and have been trying figure out best to use and when to use each.
Best use case is to use the meguairs 105/110 when you are buffing and the 205/210 when you polish.
Have you tried Novus liquids?
No. I did just buy some 3D compound and polish which will be here tomorrow. Gonna do a video on those to see how they perform. Apparently they are really highly regarded in the automotive detail industry.
A cheaper alternative that I own, I feel would be much better than buying that kit is the elm gamecube disc adapter its around $15 and you can use the regular pads and don't have to worry about any conversion kits. Before in the early 2000's there used to be a bunch if them floating around for dirt cheap but elm in recent times is where you can get it from.
I tried out the meguiars liquids when I first got my machine. It turned out okay but when I switched to the 3M perfect it series I never looked back bro. The jfj compounds are trash 🗑 it took me numerous runs to fix a heavy scratched disc to get it barely working. With the 3M it was 1 run and done!
Once my pads are done for, I'll look into the bauer pads but so far My meguiars Dff5 finishing pad has been doing me a lot of justice.
Yea i the JFJ stuff is horrible. This 3D compound and polish has been doing great but i will get some of the 3M perfect it and give that a shot. Always good to have multiple options to use in case something gets changed or no longer available. I’m getting that pad you mentioned as well.
@GamingRenewedLLC Agreed I made a video on it when you get a chance. You might like some pointers 😁
Drop the link to the video lol
@GamingRenewedLLC I would lol but everytime I tried it gets removed let me try again 🤣
@@GamingRenewedLLC th-cam.com/video/NCTtvG-Q5lc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DRneLs7m2ut9dLTP
The Japanese make's more money on selling parts then they do on selling car's. ???
Not gonna lie, i make a lot of videos so I can’t remember what was said in each lol. What is this comment in response to?