You can use a wash in Dawn (or any detergent) and tap water. Then a spray rinse with distilled water and air dry vertically. No need for any special cleaning fluid. |
For an all around good CD cleaner, go to Walmart and buy a spray bottle of eyeglass cleaner. Its about two bucks a bottle and is every bit as good as the expensive stuff.
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That "Novus" plastic cleaner should be fine. I use Novus #1 Plastic Clean and Shine. Remember to clean at a 90 degree angle (so they say). You can also use it for the jewel boxes. In my experience, CD players are very forgiving of surface scratches.
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You can also dry them with clean towels. Dry straight across, and avoid circular motions! |
I have found it best to use micro fiber cloths and not cloth towels.
David Pritchard
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^^^ Micro fiber is the way to go. Really cheap at Costco. |
curiousjim nice score! Good advice as above. Happy Listening! |
I use a car fine polish. Meguiars Scratch X to polish CDs and DVDs.I use VIVA paper towels. Sadly Viva now makes cheap ones too. Use only the wide smooth version. The imprinted with a textured pattern are not any good, nor are the narrower tear off sheets as good. Only the plain wide tear off sheets are really the best. (like cloth)Washing first is a good idea. If you have thousands, perhaps investing in a CD polishing machine? All the used stores seem to have versions of CD polishing machines.
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curiousjim,
Use paper towels at your own risk. Cloth is best! I bet you're glad you saved those old tee shirts. |
Microfiber is absolutely the way to go. Avoid paper towels, tee-shirts, tea towels, cotton, linen, etc. I learnt the hard way with previous pairs of spectacles. A couple of large microfiber cloths are inexpensive, they dry easily, and they are washable. |
Wash them with dishsoap. If alot of them are scratched badly and it’s worth it to you to save them a two wheeled bench grinder, two jeweler’s buffing wheels and compound works wonders. You have to be careful or you will burn them with too much pressure.
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Costco eyeglass cleaner and microfiber drying towels. Cheap and easy.
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I used eyeglass cleaner and it removed most everything. I think what's left might be fingerprints that after 20-30 years are permanent. I've played a few and I can't hear anything out of the norm. Maybe I'll try the Novus and see if it removes the marks, and if I can hear a difference.
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Dishwasher delicate top rack |
Novus Cleaner...with Microfiber cloth. Polish with Novus - holy crap it’s the very best for Plastic and Acrylic. Seriously. |
Worst case, ie badly scratched, rip them to your PC using Exact Audio Copy, which if you give it enough time, will do what the name says, assuming a disk is readable at all.
Otherwise, what everyone else - cleaner + microfiber cloth. I've never tried polishing out scratches, but now have ideas.... Thanks guys. |
The free stuff is expensive. March them to a use record store sell them now. |
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