>you could test various solvents with a Q-tip to
make sure they don't cause damage.
And a week later after the binder had decomposed what are you going to do ?
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Jon Elson <elson at pico-systems.com> wrote:
On 01/05/2017 07:22 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
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?
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