Posted by Robin Banks on 12/11/06 18:24

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:19:48 GMT, "videophile" <rayluca@shaw.ca> wrote:

> My question of compressed air or vacumn were just that because they used to
> use these when cleaning vcrs.

With a VCR, there's really nothing much to knock off. The head stack is
metal, the heads are screwed or glued into it. With those, it's usually tape
shedding that's creating the "dirt", so you would use a cleaning swabs instead
of air to carefully remove it from the head stack.

With a CD or DVD player/recorder, it's surprisingly easy to dislodge the lens
from the laser assembly. Once that happens, you have a paperweight.
Compressed air will usually do it easily. I've done it a few times on dead
units to show friends why NOT to use compressed air.

Come to think of it, on those dead units, the lenses usually looked pretty
clean anyway.

--
~~R.Banks

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