Re: isopropyl alcohol

Hi all, For electronic applications, I would recommend the high-purity isopropanol spray bottles from Dick Smith or Altronics (as mentioned by Antony and Paul). It looks like Iscol is a rubbing product diluted to <70% solvent. This is like the old trick of diluting ethanol 50%/50% with water — fo

Re: Unable to eject/insert CD

Hi Bill, So you are telling us that the Superdrive (CD/DVD Drive) is not showing in Disk Utility or System Profiler. The iMac is not recognising the drive. We are not sure if a Disc is in the drive. I think it might be time to get a Technician to have a look at it for you. You could try a

Re: isopropyl alcohol

We got ours from Dick Smith. Does a great job of cleaning keyboards too. Cheers Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Unsubscribe -

Re Isopropyl

On 03/05/2008, at 5:44 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote: Isopropyl alcohol is recommended by the manufacturers of my printer, OKI, and my fax machine, Brother, for the cleaning of the LEDs. The only product containing isopropyl alcohol that my local chemist has is rubbing alcohol sold as I

Re: Unable to eject/insert CD

On 03/05/2008, at 8:38 PM, Bill Cole wrote: Hi Ronda, not able to click CD/DVD drive, only thing on the left side is my Hard drive. Did the Terminal advice, but still nothing happened. Thanks for all your input.. Bill I'm starting to doubt that there is a disk in there. Try inserting ano

Re: Unable to eject/insert CD

On 04/05/2008, at 5:00 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I am still hopeful that someone on the list will be able to assist rectifying my problem ie. 1. rectifying the CD problem. & 2. getting rid of the Menu bar "eject "icon To get rid of the eject icon, Hold down the command (app

Re: G3 No Power

i hope you checked the power plug on the back is it proberly pushed in..? when you plug something else into the same power point is it working, can you hear a fan? James On 03/05/2008, at 13:27, Ikon Design wrote: Hi List You are my last hope barring mac doctor, I shut down my old work hor

Re: Unable to eject/insert CD

Hi Ronda, not able to click CD/DVD drive, only thing on the left side is my Hard drive. Did the Terminal advice, but still nothing happened. Thanks for all your input.. Bill On 03/05/2008, at 5:48 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, In Disk Utility, click the CD/DVD drive on the left side, an

Re: isopropyl alcohol

Thanks Antony and Bob. I go ahead with a purchase. Merv At 6:42 PM +0800 3/5/08, Antony N. Lord wrote: Isopropyl alcohol is recommended by the manufacturers of my printer, OKI, and my fax machine, Brother, for the cleaning of the LEDs. The only product containing isopropyl alcohol that my loca

Re: isopropyl alcohol

Isopropyl alcohol is recommended by the manufacturers of my printer, OKI, and my fax machine, Brother, for the cleaning of the LEDs. The only product containing isopropyl alcohol that my local chemist has is rubbing alcohol sold as Isocol. Will this meet the cleaning requirements? In short

Re: Unable to eject/insert CD

Hi Bill, In Disk Utility, click the CD/DVD drive on the left side, and you should be able to click the Eject button in the top part of the window. If that's not possible try this: Start Terminal (in Applications/Utilities) In Terminal, enter "drutil tray eject" (without the " ") The CD shoul

isopropyl alcohol

Isopropyl alcohol is recommended by the manufacturers of my printer, OKI, and my fax machine, Brother, for the cleaning of the LEDs. The only product containing isopropyl alcohol that my local chemist has is rubbing alcohol sold as Isocol. Will this meet the cleaning requirements? Merv -- "S

Re: Double finder

Thanks Ronni and Bob, Thanks for your suggestions. It was, in fact VoiceOver, part of Universal Access that was switched on by the child hitting Command, F and 5. That caused the annoying voice and the double menu items. You two have an amazing knowledge of all things Mac. Lloyd > > On 03/

Re: Unable to eject/insert CD

Thanks Jane for your input, just been trying your suggestion- negative I'm afraid Thanks Ronda, tried that, all disk utility shows is my Hard drive & " New Image " & " Info " the rest are greyed out. There is no Disk Icon showing on the desktop or anywhere else that I can see. I've had a

Re: G3 No Power

On 03/05/2008, at 1:27 PM, Ikon Design wrote: Hi List You are my last hope barring mac doctor, I shut down my old work horse a G3 Beige Desk Top for a week turning the power off at the power point as well, when I turned it back on it does not respond as if it does not have power to it. I

Re: Unable to eject/insert CD

Hi Bill, Have you tried using Disk Utility to see if you can Mount then Eject the CD/DVD? Cheers, Ronni On 03/05/2008, at 1:31 PM, Bill Cole wrote: Thanks Kyle, have tried 51008 & 106752, still no effect Thanks Bob for your offer, I am certainly concidering your offer , I've a few more

Re: Double finder

On 03/05/2008, at 10:23 AM, Lloyd White wrote: A friend of mine allowed his 2 yr old grandson to bash on the keyboard, turning on various applications, which he turned off. But since then the finder has every menu item doubled. Eg Shut down, or Sleep appear twice. He has re-booted but