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Originally posted by Adeptus
Laptop optical drives are usually very easy to clean unless you have a slot loader. Most of the drive mechanism is normally ejected with the tray and the laser pickup lens is right there -- you should be looking right at it with the drive in ejected state. You can clean the lens very gently with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol. Do not apply more than the minimal possible pressure to it or you will damage the mechanism.
The entire thing is usually covered up (in my experience). So then you can't access the lens (if you can, it is a bad quality player imho as the lens is exposed
- but of course, you often can't choose what you get...) .
To clean lenses, you better simply buy a CD cleaner kit which contains a special CD with a brush attached to it instead of trying to clean the lens yourself (and maybe damaging it). You can use that kit for every CD/DVD/BR player you have in house...
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