Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 02:50:48 +0000 (UTC) From: amesnopsamrak.demon.co.uk (Andrew Stephenson) Subject: Re: skipping cd
In article <dh9npu80phgajcsuqskrapiovikojm8lnqnopsamcom> uctraingNOSPAMnopsamanet.com "Bob" writes: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:18:57 +0000 (UTC), amesnopsamrak.demon.co.uk > (Andrew Stephenson) wrote: > > >I hope not. Most CDs do not take well to washing. > > Sorry I disagree. There should be no way for water to get between > the layers. I'm not suggesting that you soak it in a vat of > water for 3 days. Then we will have to disagree. I agree, however, that one might suppose there is no way for water to get between the layers; but, apparently, it is otherwise -- with a few honourable exceptions. (Some CDs are very badly made. I once had to return a CD to EMI when the lettering on the disk smeared at a casual touch.) > >Gentlest way to clean a CD, AFAIK, is to breath on the silvered > >surface, so as to "fog" it. Then wipe the disk RADIALLY (ie, out > >from centre to periphery) with a soft clean lintless fabric (eg, > >soft kitchen towel). > > If there is dirt on the CD< you just scratched it. You need a > lubricant. Soap and water will do. Breathing on the CD coats it (effectively) with distilled water, which (a) dissolves some of the dirt then (b) lubricates the wipe action. One wipes radially to ensure that scratches (and it is odds-on there will be _some_, even if only microscopic) interfere as little as possible with the track-reading process. But you do it your way and I'll do it mine. What everyone else does is also up to them. -- Andrew Stephenson