Posted by Mike Walsh on 01/22/06 19:33

The best way to clean a CD or DVD drive is to open it up an clean the lens with glass cleaner and a cotton swab. I use Glass Plus because I have read that some drives use plastic lenses and you should not use ammonia on plastic. I have resurrected many old CD drives this way. I have not had as much success with DVD drives because they usually are not very dirty and the problem is elsewhere.

d@. wrote:
>
> I often have problems with discs freezing up and/or
> showing a lot of distortion, like lines of squares across
> the screen. The same disc will play okay on some
> machines, but screw up on others. Cleaning the
> heads with a brush stlye disc cleaner seems to help
> for a little while sometimes. Sometimes running water
> over the disc then wiping it dry will help. Is it a static
> electricity problem? Or is there dirt on the laser that
> the brush won't get off? Or a combination of such
> things? Is it possible to open a DVD player and clean
> the laser, like we can do on a VCR? Or is the best
> thing to replace a DVD player when it won't play discs
> consistently any more?
>
> Thanks for any help!
> David

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

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