Cleaning CDRs

[Bill Davidsen]

What's the thought on cleaning the parts of a CDR? There are kits in the
USA, much like the "head cleaning kits," which let you insert a special
CD sized disk, "play" track 1 and 3, and it supposedly cleans things.

Alternatively the CDR can be removed and taken apart, so as to clean
things with professional quality lens cleaning tissues.

Or, you can probe about with swabs on sticks or little gadgets of high
price and dubious quality, hoping to clean the right stuff while having
a minimal view of the things you are cleaning.

Or, you can assume that technology moves so fast that when the CDR parts
need cleaning the unit is obsolete and you should replace it.

Any experiences to report on any of these methods, other than the "my
CDR isn't working right I need a new one?" I've done that, but it can't
work forever ;-)

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-bill davidsen (davi...@prodigy.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me

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