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| 42772 | 2002-04-09 04:04:00 | 'Radium head, a key part of CD/DVD, could be covered with dirt due to the dust or particles in the air after 8 hours operating. This phenomenon would have a bad impact on the CD/DVD reading, producing unclear pictures and sound, as well as damaging the CD/DVD.' Worth the price (from the $2 shop) for the [mis]description on the packing alone. But there is a little bottle of IPA. This one has a couple of pieces of stick on eyelashes glued about 10 mm long, halfway across the disk. (The disk has recorded MTV programmes 'to compare the former result with the latter.') I haven't seen others (more expensive), so how does this conctruction compare? I'd guess that I have to 'read' the thing halfway through to get to the cleaning area. (Floppy cleaning disks were easy -- it was just an absorbent plastic disk, and it didn't matter where the head was). I might just use the isopropyl alcohol on a lens tissue on a cotton bud trick. |
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| 42773 | 2002-04-09 07:29:00 | Or just open up the drive yourself and clean it manually. Might void some warranties though. JM |
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| 42774 | 2002-04-09 08:04:00 | Take care Graham, laser lenses are made of varying types of plastic and some don't like isopropyl alcohol. If manually cleaning, unless you are sure of the lense composition with I'd stick to inert cleaners like spectacle lense liquid. BTW, I have a cleaning disk for audio and computer CD players that has a series of embedded tufts and lead-in tracks to take it quickly to the cleaning area. It sounds a bit more sophisticated than the Marilyn Munro model you describe. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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| 42775 | 2002-04-09 11:51:00 | The last cheap cleaner I used make the problem worse because the bristles came out and got stuck around the laser. The phillips one is good, but its ~$30. |
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| 42776 | 2002-04-10 05:39:00 | Warranties? What are they. Nothing I buy has a warranty. The most I have paid for a CD drive is $5. I've had a carton (mostly dead) for $2. I pick out any that work. I assume it's IPA in the bottle. I don't know any plastics that don't like it. Meths is something else. A mate once 'cleaned' the front panel of an HP multimeter. The replacement panel was *expensive*. I would have used Brasso for that. My technique works -- just needs a steady hand and good light. (I do open the lid to do it. I haven't mastered the 4-dimensional technique to put my hand 'past not through' the panel). But I'm not prepared to pay $30 for a cleaning disk. I could buy more CD drives for that. |
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