Cleaning CD/DVD Rom Drives

[Musicman51]

See it's great to get help from the pros like you guys. You know i am new to this computer stuff. A few years ago i couldn't even program my VCR. But anyway...Just to show you how misinformation gets around. Look at this link on cleaning a CD drive. Look at the 5th picture over where it says "Clean CD Drive"..see what he's holding in his hand, and doing? This is why i asked. There is so much bad info out there. Thanks guys for helping me again. George
http://www.computerdust.com/clean_co...rom_drive.html

[ddouglass]

He does say not to use too much pressure. How much is too much???

[billyo]

we used canned compressed air at work all the time, the trick to this is not to shake the can, and just pull the trigger once , not continous caused this will freeze up all the moving parts inside ( i mean real frozen ) and you have to be around 6-8" away, dont stick the nozzle in the compartment, if your too close this will blow too much air preasure ,this will make the dust circulate inside, i have done this to all my laptops/pc and the cd/dvd drives still works great..

[George]

I use air with short blasts because of the freezing factor.

I had a Plextor tech tell me over the phone a couple of years ago to never use anything that touches the lased head, and that made sense to me.