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In article <d6tif2$hnn$1@news3.bu.edu>,
Leonid Makarovsky <venom@csa2.bu.edu> wrote:
>P Pron <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>: Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but every instruction I've ever seen
>: for laserdisc and CD cleaning emphasises the importance of using *radial*
>: movements - ie a straight line from the label area to the edge of the disc,
>: and _not_ wiping around the disc, as you would with an LP record.
>: If the cleaning introduces any microscopic scratches, you want them _across_
>: the track, not _along_ it, where they could throw the laser off track.....
>I guess good thing I stated the reason why I needed the
>dimensions of a hole. But then can anyone give me an advise as
>how to clean LaserDiscs so that no dust is left. What should the
>cloth be made of? I thought that cleaning system for the vinyl
>records doesn't introduce any scratches and the vacuum system is
>the most effective one. Thanks.
Light dust should not hurt playback at all.
And in the early days of LP I saw one shuck and jive HIFI salesman
[using that word with as much derision as possbile in typed format]
demonstrate how rugged LDs were.
He took a ball point pen and scribbled all over the disk, and then
put it on the floor and stepped on the disk. Then he proceeded to
put the disk in the machine and play it, and then told the customer
how rugged they were.
Customers in that era of course were only used to LPs and did not
know that LD's played from the bottom - the side he did not mark
up.
You can always trust a HI-FI salesman. You can trust him to say
anything to make a sale and steer you to the itmes he gets spiffed
on.
I'm glad those days are pretty much gone. I tended to wander
around and listen to salemen talking to each other or bs'ing
customers.
I heard one salesman talking about how he could re-package the
$100+ phono cartridges so you could not tell it had been opened.
That meant that if someone bought one and returned it, you could
get a cartridge that wasn't working 'right' because the original
buyer may have gone so far to chip the cartridge.
Another store always opened the cartons from the bottom. A friend
bought a system from them, and had the boxes in his office, and I
notied the box and said "You bought that at XXX didn't you".
He was surprised and said yes. The always opened the cartons
carefully on the bottom so they could put the items on display.
When someone wanted to buy one they would get a display unit - that
may have been abused by customers 'looking', and then carefully
repacked. The top seal was never touched and they talked about
selling all their merchandise in 'factory sealed cartons'.
A local LD store had their LDs on shelves and if you picked one off
the shelf and took it to the counter to check it out, they would
say "Let me get a new one from the back room so I don't have to
make a new price sticker to put one on the shelf".
What happened when they went to the back room was to take one of
the LDs they were renting, and re-shrink it and sell it as new.
A few months later I ran into an ex-saleman from that store and
told him why I didn't buy any more disks from them. [One I had
bought had a barely visible razor cut in the cover where they had
slit it open to be able to rent it and then re-shrink it.
The saleman couldn't see anything wrong with renting a disk and
then selling it as new because "a laser disk doesn't wear out like
an LP so it's just like new".
I don't care for business practices that do such things - but you
saw them everywhere >IF< you kept your eyes and ears open.
Sorry for the drift - but some people may not be aware of practices
like that and need to be careful when buying 'factory packed'
merchandise that has been opened and used.
Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
/www.kabusa.com/frameset.htm?/index.htm. This is for cleaning of
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