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From: peter@cbmvax.UUCP (Peter Cherna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fix that baby!
Message-ID: <7972@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 14:22:33 GMT
References: <1982.AA1982@americ> <1545@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: peter@cbmvax.UUCP (Peter Cherna)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1545@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright) writes:
>In article <1982.AA1982@americ> erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons) writes:
>| Amiga Disk Drives
>|    1) Clean with Q-tips and alcohol
>|       a) if heads are sticky when they touch each other, clean heads
>|       with "KESTER Rosin Residue Remover".
>
>Just a little warning: Q-tips have a small amount of wax added to them
>so that they retain their "50% more head".  Use medical or electronic
>grade cotton swabs instead.  Also, be careful about what alcohol you
>use.  Some leave a residue, depending on what else has been added.
>
>-- 
>Jim Wright
>jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu

Here's something I picked up in my old days working with fiber optics:
DO NOT use swabs that have plastic sticks.  You'll get a faint milky
residue because the alcohol dissolves the cheap plastic.  Proper
cotton swabs designed for other than ears have wooden sticks.

      Peter Cherna

"The above opinion is mine, and does not necessarily represent
that of my employer."