Cleaning CD's!?!

Windowlene, plus soft duster works for me.

Regards

Mike

On the Yellow Brick Road and Happy

Chaps

I use washing up liquid and a linen cloth tea towel.

Works fine.

Regards

Mick

I had never really given this any thought before. I generally breath on them to fog them up and then wipe them on my jeans. Is that wrong?
I can honestly say they never jump

Nordost ECO 3 on the label side is very effective. As I have posted before, this is a good antidote to 'ERR' messages from CD players.

I also have a very good 'shiny side' cleaner called 'Finyl' but I don't think it's still available. If anyone knows to the contrary, I'd love to hear.

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Originally posted by Mick Parry:
Chaps

I use washing up liquid and a linen cloth tea towel.

Works fine.

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Ditto - as long as the towel is clean.

Steve

Hi Andy

Use some sort of camera lens blower brush or a fine 'make-up' type brush to remove any obvious muck and grit. Otherwise you'll grind it into the surface.

Then use a moistened spectacle wipe in straight lines from centre to edge.

The advantage of this type of wipe is that it evaporates off, with no residual surface smearing.

I managed to clear a couple of nasty gouges by carefully using a drop of Brasso. It worked a treat and completely restored the CDs to their former glory.

I'd suggest this should be regarded as a last resort though, and used only on CDs you've just about written off!

Slightly off topic (but related) question - what about cleaning laser lenses? I have in the past used naptha (lighter fuel) on a cotton bud followed by a mop up with the corner of a paper kitchen towel , which seemed to work fine .

This certainly cleared the "film" that settles on these lenses after time , and did improve sound quality .

I hope I havnt damaged anything! is there an official method of cleaning these things , or what ?

I just tried my cd lens cleaner and my player (CDX2) would not read it!

For getting "muck" off (not my own I hasten to add) CDs, I use liquid window cleaner. On serious scratches, I have used Brasso, and for really stubborn scratches, T-Cut, (applied carefully), rubbed with a cotton bud.

I am always careful to wipe the disc in a RADIAL direction (ie, centre - edge)as the scratches/marks most likely to cause mistracking
are those that run parallel to the "groove"

laurie S

Plain washing with tepid water with a drop of washing up liquid and a CLEAN cloth ala Parry works just fine for normal muck. "Crystal Disc" works well on those discs that have been really mistreated eg. those from the local library. It recovers all but the terminally gouged and the tube lasts for years.

Remember back when they first came out and they said you could put jam on them and they'd still work?

Paul Rowlands

Sure do! But they didn't warn us of the resulting chronic indigestion, did they?!
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