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.> 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?
Jon
