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Created:Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:Fri Mar 03 1989
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1517
Total number of notes:13349

695.0. "Lens cleaner for dash mounted unit??" by PARSEC::PESENTI (JP) Mon Mar 30 1987 17:07

Anybody have any ideas, or heard of any devices, that would allow me to clean 
the lens on my cd player without having to disassemble it.  Specifically, a 
SONY CDX-R7 dash mounted player.  I'd like to avoid taking it out of the dash.
It's not critical, yet, but I'd like to be ready.

						     
							- JP
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695.1QUARK::LIONELFree advice is worth every centMon Mar 30 1987 17:525
    Finally - a good use for this thing!  There is a special CD with
    a lens cleaning brush on the market - about $25.  I've seen it
    in various stores and mail order catalogs.
    
    					Steve
695.2Not only for carsDSSDEV::CHANMon Mar 30 1987 20:409
    My brother just purchase one (from the Wiz in NYC) by Audio Techniques.
    It is a disk with alignment info and carbon brushed on it.  It was
    purchased, through the suggestion of one the noters, to stop a
    Magnavox 460 from skipping.  The thing he noticed that the CD doesn't
    "jump" start (starts about a second into the 1st track), the disks
    spin slower, and he doesn't get the random clicks that you hear
    when the disk mistracks.
    
    Kenney
695.3VINO::GSCOTTGreg ScottMon Mar 30 1987 21:168
    re .1: I have one of those things that I got when one of my Sony CDXR7s
    started going south.   (It didn't help by the way).  I have loaned it
    to several people (portables, home, car) and it seems to do nothing
    harmful.  In two cases it actually helped.  About 1/3 of the time, my
    home player "hangs" (no controls have any discernable effect; power off
    resets it). 
    
    GAS
695.4Lens cleanersPARITY::URREATue Mar 31 1987 17:249
	Re -.1  You can get a lens cleaning cd at Natural Sound in 
Framingham for $25 --and some change.

	My player was not loading some discs, and it would not track 
sometimes, all at random. Two passes with the thing (one for good measure) 
and the problems are gone.... Maybe; maybe they work.

	MU