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| 1468.1 | What about a "CD Lens Cleaner"? | SPMFG1::WARNERS | Helmet on, snowmobile ready!! | Fri Jan 13 1989 14:11 | 14 |
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Sorry, don't have any info on CD cleaners but this note
made me want to ask another question: Has anyone ever
heard of a "CD player Lens cleaner"? It appears to be
a disk by a company called Audio-source that you put in the
player and it cleans the lens just by "playing" it in the
unit.
What the hell is this???????? Help!!!!
Thanks,
Scott
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| 1468.2 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Ad Astra | Fri Jan 13 1989 20:19 | 5 |
| It's discussed elsewhere - it has a tiny brush that wipes off the
lens. If you have a dirty lens, it may help. Or it may make it worse.
A shot of compressed air works well too, if you can aim it properly.
Steve
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| 1468.3 | wake of the flood | REORG::ROGOFF | Zen Software Documentation | Sat Jan 21 1989 12:35 | 9 |
| I have a discwasher CD cleaner and it works like a charm. I had seen
it work at the store when I returned a Moody Blues album that came
with what looked like a sticky grease spot on it. It played fine after
cleaning.
I bought the device, which was about $15 if I remember correctly, only
when my rent-a-housekeeper flooded a plant that was hanging directly
over my discs. Fortunately, I was able to salvage the liners by
pressing them in books.
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| 1468.4 | Similar question... | MRFLEX::MILLER | om mani padme hum | Sat Jan 21 1989 16:32 | 20 |
| I bought an "Intraclean CD-101" Compact Disk Cleaner years ago for $17
when my *first* CD (Dire Straits "Brothers In Arms) started skipping.
However, Before I even opened it, I realized that it wasn't the disk
skipping per se, but rather the sensitivity of how the disk was loaded into
my Yamaha CD-X5u. In fact, whenever I have a CD that skips, I simply
re-seat it, and it seems to be fine thereafter.
But the marketing hype on the box says that using it can actually
protect my CD player!
So should I be using this (or something like it) even if I don't have a
serious problem with CD tracking? Is there anything (as far as
cleaning) that I *should* be doing to help my CD player?
My gut feel is not to try and fix anything that *ain't* broke. But I'd
like to here opinions.
Thanks,
== ken miller ==
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| 1468.5 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Ad Astra | Sat Jan 21 1989 21:16 | 11 |
| There's no point in cleaning a disc unless it is so grimy that it
won't play, and you should avoid getting discs that dirty to begin
with. Minor amounts of dust and fingerprints won't cause problems.
As for your player, some players have more problems with getting dust
on the lens assembly than others. For those, a shot of compressed
air every couple of months ought to do the trick. (Then again, my
3-1/2 year old D-5 has its lens exposed to the world, and it's NEVER
given me a single problem...)
Steve
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