>>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 <el...@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 >
