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Title: What is the best way to clean a CD?
Post by: WolfWalker on August 31, 2008, 07:07:31 am

DVDs and Audio CDs.  I have fingerprints all over them from my friends handling them.

Title: Re: What is the best way to clean a CD?
Post by: marko on August 31, 2008, 07:34:08 am

warm soapy water, I use bog standard washing up liquid.

When drying, do not use circular actions, dry from the center outwards.

Title: Re: What is the best way to clean a CD?
Post by: WolfWalker on August 31, 2008, 08:41:03 am

ok, thank you.  Why not in a circle?

Title: Re: What is the best way to clean a CD?
Post by: John Gateley on August 31, 2008, 08:43:37 am

Washing can scratch the surface (if you get a piece of grit caught in the rag). You want the scratch to travel perpendicular to the data track, not parallel. Then the CD's data recovery can work better.

j

Title: Re: What is the best way to clean a CD?
Post by: WolfWalker on August 31, 2008, 09:49:19 am

ok, thanks

Title: Re: What is the best way to clean a CD?
Post by: Mr ChriZ on September 01, 2008, 08:13:15 am

The cleaning soloution found in expensive cd cleaning kits is Window Cleaner.
I'd guess the anti scratch stuff is some kind of polish.

Title: Re: What is the best way to clean a CD?
Post by: Matt on September 01, 2008, 03:58:44 pm

Belt sander  ;D

Title: Re: What is the best way to clean a CD?
Post by: KingSparta on September 02, 2008, 09:41:47 am

80 grit