Richard Lang shared,
| Just a final note on the MD Lens Cleaner discussion - I've had the
| opportunity of checking out a Sony MD-6LCL lens cleaning MD in the flesh.
|
| It looks like a pre-recorded MD - shutter on one side only. You insert the
| thing in the MD unit and press track 2, and it beeps when the job is done.
| Apparently tracks 3 and 5 have a music selection on them -presumably for
| testing the cleaning job. I can't figure out how it works, but the sales
| assistance said it uses a brush.
The Maxell lens cleaner is very similar. Track 1 touts Maxell products and
ends with spoken instructions. Track 2 does the cleaning work, and if you
open the shutter you can see the two bristles. There's no beep; you just
play track 2. Tracks 3 through 5 are some simple audio tests to make sure
you have the speakers connected correctly (I long since dubbed them to a
regular recordable MD so that I could use them without the lens brush).
Track 6 is "assorted music."
| Anyhow, the packaging suggests you use it once every 2 weeks.
That's even more often than Maxell, who said once a month! Thanks again for
the information, Richard.
| Once it's been used 50 times you have to throw it out and buy a new one.
I didn't see a life span on the Maxell. Now, the TDK head cleaner was
another story: it's seen as a disc that starts with 74m59s of open space,
you use it by recording for ten seconds, you shouldn't erase tracks, yet it
is good for only fifty uses. Now, fifty uses times ten seconds would come to
8m20s, so why wasn't it designed to show only 8m20s (OK, maybe a little more
for leeway in case the user stops it a little later than ten seconds)? Why
is it designed to permit nine times as many uses as it is good for? That
makes no sense to me.
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