Poll: What do you guys use to clean the laser lens of your CDROM's and Burners?

[KennyH]

Just wondering what you guys and gals use to keep these suckers clean. Please, any information would be grealty appreciated. Thanks.

 

[mztykal]

Cleaned em? Since when do they need to be cleaned?!?!

 

[murdock2525]

??????? Never have. If I were going to do anything you could blow the drive clean with canned air.

 

[joohang]

Clean the laser lens? :Q I'd rather buy a new drive.

 

[sad]

WARRANTY BE DAMNED!

I just take them apart and blow out all the air, lube up the rail, and clean the len(singular?) with a cotton swap and alcohol.

 

[Jeff H]

My HP CD-RW manual specifically admonishes you not to clean the lense.

 

[Emory7]

Never touched mine in 3 years.

 

[sak]

if you never tought the darn lens then why would u have to clean it. i mean there might be dust on it, just blow on it

 

[vm]

I put my drive in the washing machine..

 

[Mem]

I use high quality CD lens cleaner kit,which you can buy from most good HI-FI stores.

 

[AG73]

I get mine dry cleaned.
AG

 

[MSNY]

Cleaning is not needed. Just use compressed air once in a while to blow out any heavy dust/dirt accumulations. Usually you can see a potential dirt problem before you have any problems with a CD or CDRW.

While your at it you might as well blow out the entire case.

 

[4824guy]

Cleaning is not needed, and some people here have even reported troubles after using the physical brush type of cleaner disk.

Bottom line-don't clean unless you are having problems.

 

[sharkeeper]

Compact Dishwasher.

Cheers!

 

[Paulson]

I just blow out my computer.

never cleaned my burner for 3 years.

I suppose I should oil the rails though.....

 

[dkozloski]

Some CD-ROM drives have a little brush built in that auomatically cleans the lense.

 

[KennyH]

Ok guys, I was just wondering if one of those cd cleaners with the little brushes on the underside would hurt the lens itself or would it help. WOW :Q thanks for all the comments and info.