twiiii
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I wear Glasses and because I take them on and off or handle them more than I should, I get grease from my fingers on the lenses and if I lay them around so the grease sweat and grime build up dries its hard to get off. . So to make the lenses easy to clean I use Sprayaway glass cleaner.
Well it seems I have been getting my share of new blank CD's, recorded Cd's and DVD's and Blue-rays that aren't as clean as they should be and My Marantz CD recorder the 891 and 861 will kick them back. So I use the same glass cleaner which works most of the time. . Only the old Pioneer Laser combi player will play all the DVD, and CDs with out issues.
So tonight I decided when I purchased Equalizer 2 and it had smudge s on the disc right out of the the sealed album container, that I would use the Sprayaway and it didn't work. So I got out some fresh dish towels and cleaned the disc with distilled water. and the disc played perfectly. My Gettysburg CD was giving me the same problem but found a deep scratch, so I dubbed a new CD off the computer. When I went to play it back no dice again. But this time I cleaned it with distilled water and everything was A OK.
So I opened the discs I had set aside that were giving me trouble and cleaned them with a fresh towel and distilled water. And they all play perfectly. So from now on only fresh dish towels and distilled water for me. And when my glasses are crude I'll use the Glass cleaner first and then distilled water. Lesson learned.
Its getting so discs are almost becoming the same head aches as LP's when it comes to keep
ing them smudge free and clean. Players seem to handle scratches , but not smudges. What frustrates me most is new blank disc and recorded disc are contaminated when opened. Yes I wash my hands before handling discs and LP's. Just a fact a life for a guy with oily skin. Maybe I should try my camera lens cleaner. But I know it's not perfect either. I should have remembered when cleaning my Hasselblad lenses and Leica Binoculars starting in the- late 60's I always used distilled water. Thats also what I used on the flip up mirrors on My Nikon F's and F2's. and 503CM and 500 CM. Distilled water is cheaper.
Well it seems I have been getting my share of new blank CD's, recorded Cd's and DVD's and Blue-rays that aren't as clean as they should be and My Marantz CD recorder the 891 and 861 will kick them back. So I use the same glass cleaner which works most of the time. . Only the old Pioneer Laser combi player will play all the DVD, and CDs with out issues.
So tonight I decided when I purchased Equalizer 2 and it had smudge s on the disc right out of the the sealed album container, that I would use the Sprayaway and it didn't work. So I got out some fresh dish towels and cleaned the disc with distilled water. and the disc played perfectly. My Gettysburg CD was giving me the same problem but found a deep scratch, so I dubbed a new CD off the computer. When I went to play it back no dice again. But this time I cleaned it with distilled water and everything was A OK.
So I opened the discs I had set aside that were giving me trouble and cleaned them with a fresh towel and distilled water. And they all play perfectly. So from now on only fresh dish towels and distilled water for me. And when my glasses are crude I'll use the Glass cleaner first and then distilled water. Lesson learned.
Its getting so discs are almost becoming the same head aches as LP's when it comes to keep
ing them smudge free and clean. Players seem to handle scratches , but not smudges. What frustrates me most is new blank disc and recorded disc are contaminated when opened. Yes I wash my hands before handling discs and LP's. Just a fact a life for a guy with oily skin. Maybe I should try my camera lens cleaner. But I know it's not perfect either. I should have remembered when cleaning my Hasselblad lenses and Leica Binoculars starting in the- late 60's I always used distilled water. Thats also what I used on the flip up mirrors on My Nikon F's and F2's. and 503CM and 500 CM. Distilled water is cheaper.
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