5 Jan
2017
5 Jan
'17
9:05 a.m.
On 01/05/2017 07:22 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I'd be very careful with acetone, it tends to dissolve a lot
of things, like maybe the binder in the coating.
Rubbing alcohol (isopropyl) and pure ethanol are the things
I've seen used to clean magnetic media.
if there is a spot that is not actually used (maybe other
parts of the gouged tracks) you could test various solvents
with a Q-tip to make sure they don't cause damage.
Jon
From: Klemens
Krause
We clean our RK05 disks in a very robust way:
with cheap burning spirit
and paper towels. ... We rubbed away thick black traces from occasional
head crashes and we never removed the oxide coating with this torture.
I am about to get a large batch of RK05 packs, so I am interested in the
details of this.
First, what is 'burning spirit'? (I assume this is a straight translation
into English of some German term, but not knowing German... :-) After poking
around with Google for a while (hampered no little by the fact that it's the
name of a band, and also a term in World of Warcraft :-), it seems like it
might be acetone?