Re: Cleaning the drive heads

[George Rentovich <grent3@gmail.com>]

On Sep 10, 5:50 pm, Puckdropper <puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I got a bunch of used games from a guy online, and have been working on
> testing them out.  These are old disks that haven't been used in a while,
> so I know a few of them are leaving junk all over the drive head.  When I
> put in a known working disk after using some of the unknown disks it
> doesn't work at all.
>
> Last time cleaning the head fixed this, but I don't want to risk damaging
> the heads by cleaning them too much.  I've only got one drive.
>
> Is there a safe way to clean the heads?  I've got a Unidisk 5 1/4 drive, so
> getting to the heads isn't too difficult, but it's not easy either.
>
> Puckdropper
> --
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> rec.woodworking
>
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A head cleaning disk will not hurt the disk. You can use it more times
then they tell you. Do not try to write to the disk. A few drops of
Isopropl Alcohol is all you need on the cleaning pad.