isopropyl alcohol works. TFE is better, if you have some stashed. If you can find them anywhere, Texwipe made a plastic wand that looks like a tongue depressor with a slit down the middle and a lint free sleeve called the Texsleeve (tx300 sleeve, tx800 wand) that you would use to clean heads
Minor head crashes leave a tar-like residue that you need to remove. A pack inspector is a handy thing to have (spinle with microscope and illuminator on the rack and pinion) to look for surface damage. On 1/5/17 5:22 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Klemens Krause > > > We clean our RK05 disks in a very robust way: with cheap burning spirit > > and paper towels. ... We rubbed away thick black traces from occasional > > head crashes and we never removed the oxide coating with this torture. > > I am about to get a large batch of RK05 packs, so I am interested in the > details of this. > > First, what is 'burning spirit'? (I assume this is a straight translation > into English of some German term, but not knowing German... :-) After poking > around with Google for a while (hampered no little by the fact that it's the > name of a band, and also a term in World of Warcraft :-), it seems like it > might be acetone? > > Noel >