On this day, a legend was born...

@BigPauly

4 жыл бұрын

Haha Blimey that was so long ago! 🙀

Appreciate the tutorial. I had a steel book where the spine was upside down and it drove me nuts. I was able to fix it with a heat gun. Thanks.

Excellent work! Very impressed with the results.

@BigPauly

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 👍

Thanks so much for this! Amazing tutorial!

@BigPauly

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome

Amazing work!! 👊👊👊

Thanks, this is excellent! Great help!

Awesome! Thanks for the helpful hints!

Great vid, alot easier than glue for sure.

Very nice! Perfect man!!!

Thanks for the tips, i put a 4 disc plastic inside “The Predator” steelbook to hold all 4 movies. Now i have to get around to the spine.

@BigPauly

2 жыл бұрын

Wow didn’t think anyone still watched this video, one of my very first 👍

Thanks for the tutorial! Very helpful and useful. Made the mistake of doing this three times in a row, and the glue is killer on the fingers. Definitely don't do that, haha.

Excellent video. Been looking for how to change spines for a while. this is very helpful!

Hello, I love your videos on the steelbook. Can you help me, where can I find beautiful images for my steelbooks and especially the right dimensions. I thank you.

What did u have problems with?

Great vid m8- subbed ya! Feel a lot more confident giving the spine a go now! Also I can highly recommend a product I use to remove glue off steelbooks. It's called Auto Glym intensive tar remover. You can buy it from halfords for £6.50 and its amazin stuff- works in seconds an does not affect the paintwork at all .

what brand and what kind of double sided tape did you use.

Awesome vid thx for this. Have you done one with artwork already on? How's that process? Cuz I want to replace a SteelBook guts but I see it already has inside artwork. So is that removable as well? Or now that I just typed this in thinking the inside art is attached to the spine right?

@BigPauly

6 жыл бұрын

Yeh I think you’d probably need to use the same artwork and try to match it up with the art already on the spine!

@laz305

6 жыл бұрын

BigPauly here's what I want to do. Swap JFK with Game of Thrones S1 and they both have inside artwork. Is it possible to remove the inside art of the spine? Are they just 1 piece together? I want to know cuz I don't want to try if it's not possible. Thx

I suppose I'll have to try this for the first time pretty soon, as I want to improve the FYE Halloween Steelbook by replacing the single disc inner plastic with a 3 disc one to hold the TV version DVD as well as two Blu-rays to cover as much ground as possible in terms of content. I am also getting the 35th anniversary edition to add the booklet. I was thinking about getting an extra copy of the booklet that comes with the deluxe edition set, but realized it would not fit, and whereas I remember seeing one listed on Ebay a while back, they are now nowhere to be found.

@Vaderd2k926

5 жыл бұрын

MELEKH HA OLAM I’m doing the same thing! In my case I’m replacing the plastic inner form because it was broken on delivery. Also have to attempt to repair the slightly bent spine. But where will you acquire a triple disc plastic inner tray?

@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9

5 жыл бұрын

"But where will you acquire a triple disc plastic inner tray?" I have some other Steelbooks I can use for that.

@Vaderd2k926

5 жыл бұрын

MELEKH HA OLAM Thats convenient. Only Steels I’m willing to plunder for their trays are damaged singles. I might just visit the local brick and mortar FYE in Queens NY to see if they have another copy of Halloween.

@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9

5 жыл бұрын

I also intend to modify the Scream Factory Halloween 2 Steelbook to accommodate four discs, and use that space for the Terror In The Aisles disc and soundtrack CD thereby making it sort of a Region A Steelbook version of the NSM Mediabook I have.

@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9

5 жыл бұрын

You might want to keep an eye on the FYE website if you still intend to do one of these conversions, and specifically the Steve Austin Collection Steelbook of which they sell used copies for around $6.00. It is a four-disc Steelbook with a disc holder on each side, and the locking flap in the middle with one disc holder each side of it.

Is there any reason a hot knife could not be used to take off the spine label? If you can avoid touching the actual plastic with it, as you are instructed to do if using a regular X-acto knife, then it ostensibly shouldn't make any real difference other than allowing you to omit the process of heating up the Steelbook separately.

Thank You Man !!!

Anyone know a way to take the Blu Ray Logo off the spine, and change it for 4K?

Sorry I'm late to the party but would this method work also to fix a crooked spine? I mean, without even removing it, just heating it up a little and trying move it so it would sit straight on the plastic. Thanks!

I finally tried this and got the knife as high up toward the metal as it would go, and it cut the spine rather than separating it from the glue. Maybe it's some odd Steelbook that is different from the one in the video. It does seem somewhat different from those I've seen in any tutorials on this kind of thing. The label seems like it's made of plastic instead of metal for one thing, and even after many passes with a hair dryer on high heat, there was no getting the knife any higher than I had it toward the label. This was a Steve Austin Collection Steelbook that I intended to use for a 4-disc Halloween Steelbook. I do have one other copy, but was intending to use one for the first movie and the other for the second. I was very careful about making sure that I was perfectly aware of what to do from all the videos I've watched, and also TREMENDOUSLY careful about executing it, but nonetheless, it cut through the spine of the plastic. I have no idea what went wrong.

@BigPauly

5 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry to hear that. This was a regular technique I used on multiple Steelbook spines. It could be that maybe the hair dryer heat wasn’t hot enough or the knife wasn’t sharp enough, I used a scalpel. These were also just regular steelbooks with metal spines. I did have a few mishaps when I first started so it took a few goes. I would buy a few rubbish dented cheap steelbooks you can practice on!

@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9

5 жыл бұрын

@@BigPauly Well, I finally did get it off. I just didn't think it would require such tremendous near vision. I do have extremely good natural near vision, but my contacts eliminate that in order to allow me to see things clearly beyond a few inches. Hopefully I can glue the cut spine back together. As for the things suggested, I used a brand new X-acto knife I bought specifically for this purpose, and repeated the hair dryer aspect. It's just a matter of my not thinking that it was so difficult to get the knife into the right spot and so comparatively easy to have it do what it did. And now I have the plastic glued and bound. I used a "super glue" that is specifically indicated for plastics, so fingers crossed.

@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9

5 жыл бұрын

@@BigPauly Also, despite the fact that probably around a half hour elapsed between the original heating with the hair dryer and my finally going back and taking the label off, once I got it where it was supposed to be, it slid through like nothing without even the need for see sawing it back and forth.

@BigPauly

5 жыл бұрын

Ah yes it needs to heat the glue so it goes all soft and gooey then slide the knife along pretty much straight after heating

@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9

5 жыл бұрын

@@BigPauly No, I mean that after originally having cut the spine, I went back and removed the label, which came off effortlessly despite it having been approximately half an hour since it had been heated.

What brand of double sided tape is that?

Is it possible to fix a misplaced spine (not straight) using this?

@BigPauly

4 жыл бұрын

Ooh I’m not sure I’ve never had to do that

that's awesome...now can you remove those ratings labels? ;)

Have you had any issues with the spines coming off because of the tape?

@BigPauly

5 жыл бұрын

No still stuck after all this time

5mm width from Amazon

Where can I even buy these custom spines? I got the terminator 2 limited edition steelbook and its spine part is so bland (has nothing on it none even the name of the film) so I wanna change it.

@BigPauly

2 жыл бұрын

You can buy custom magnetic spines from some sellers on eBay

I’m tryna fix my last of us remastered steelbook case, I bent the side plate thing

@BigPauly

3 жыл бұрын

Oh sorry to hear that

Gonna try this with my ps2 godfather steelbook

The hairdryer LOL.

Super helpful, thanks! Bought a deluxe game set (was new) and the inside of the plastic on the steelbook had lots of spots for some weird reason. Pulled them apart, washed the plastic while being careful not to get water next to the spine, dried them and put them back together, looks great now :)

Well, unfortunately the gluing didn't work..........but VERY fortunately, another Steve Austin Collection 4-disc Steelbook for less than $6 appeared for the first time in around a month!! Not only will this allow me to make the 4-disc Halloween 2 Steelbook from the single disc Scream Factory one, but the single disc innards with the Steve Austin metal panels will allow me to make matching part 4 and 5 Steelbooks using magnets!!

@BigPauly

5 жыл бұрын

That’s unfortunate about the gluing. I did find that using the thin double sided clear sticky tape worked much better!

@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9

5 жыл бұрын

@@BigPauly No, I meant attempting to glue the broken one back together. Even binding it extremely tightly for well over 24 hours didn't work. I did buy and use the double sided tape for attaching the label, and that worked perfectly well!! I am also happy to report that the inkjet magnetic glossy sheets that I ordered come out tremendously well,.....at least once the printer is properly set. Clarification of size of the paper being associated with a given medium would have been very helpful in this regard. You would think that with all the instances of graying out of options which cannot work in correlation with others that a computer would not even allow you to wind up selecting contradictory settings like this, but that isn't the case. I noticed that people on message boards had had problems years ago printing on magnetic sheets which were probably matters of EXACTLY the same issue, as it is somewhat odd not only that you'd be allowed to choose settings that would make the printer unresponsive, or cause it to refuse to print and display an error message but that there would be such ambiguity to begin with.

God you’re voice has changed so much! Lol

@BigPauly

5 жыл бұрын

Think I was trying to be posh! 🤣

@Vaderd2k926

5 жыл бұрын

Think you succeeded!

what is the name of the tape

@BigPauly

4 жыл бұрын

Blimey can’t remember. It was on Amazon 6mm double sided clear tape

It's actually easy to remove the plastic by hand. It was very difficult when I first attempted it due to the particular Steelbook that I decided to try it with, which is the Pitch Black Blu-ray DVD one, which has the locking "teeth" in a totally different spot on the plastic inside the front cover piece. Instead of being on the top toward the corner right next to the spine, they are right in the middle of the side opposite the spine. Once I realized what the problem was, it was no longer a problem at all.

Can you fix a steelbook gor me.

Wow you have changed

@BigPauly

3 жыл бұрын

Less professional and more mouthy now lol

@ollysmoviesandmusic2047

3 жыл бұрын

@@BigPauly yea but you weren't bad then even but, you are funnier and just better. (vid idea: maybe you can go to shops and look for some bottom of the shelf dvds and review some! You don't have to tho.)

Look for High Quality Clear Acrylic Double Sided Tape 6mm x 5m on eBay

Not all steelbooks are the same, broke mine following this, was a rare one as well ffs.

@BigPauly

4 жыл бұрын

Oh no, I would test it a few times on some crappy steelbooks for some practice

Why'd they have to make it such a pain to get the stupid spine off? **sigh**

Fuck i ruined my steelbook, its not as easy as it looks people, please be careful

@91lifetime23

8 жыл бұрын

sort of bended the steelbook because it did not separate from the plastic inside