On Tue, 31 May 2016, Ian Field wrote:



"curls" wrote in message
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My car's CD player reports Check CD and ejects many CDs. I've managed to
get the radio out of the car, and opened it until I can now see the laser
lens.

I plan to clean with Qtip and isopropyl alcohol 91%.

You can get a lens cleaning disk with a small tuft of brush on it that wipes
the lens as it goes round. There's normally a bottle of cleaning fluid
supplied in the box.

I thought those things weren't regarded well. Maybe it's in the faq. I
was given one after I got my first CD player in 1997, but I never used it.

Attacking the lens with a Q-tip is the last resort, the lens mount is very
fragile. normally that is only necessary if you're a heavy smoker and tar
deposits have contaminated the deck.

The Q-tip is pretty much the kill or cure last ditch attempt to save it!

I've never done anything but the q-tip in alcohol. I have no idea whether
something lesser would work, but I also know nothing bad came from it.
All the warnings make me gentle.

I know I got my found on the sidewalk blu-ray player working by cleaning
it with a q-tip. It played DVDs fine, but not blu-rays. Cleaning the
blu-ray lens got it going, it's been fine for a few years, though I don't
yet have many blu-ray disks so that laser isn't getting much use.

Michael