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What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them?

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Subject	What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them?
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.portables, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.systems
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Date	2017-02-27 02:22 -0600

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Is it safe to use those CD cleaners with tiny brushes on them in these 
disc slot drives? I am trying to see if I can fix the old early 2008 
MBP's internal optical disc drive to read DVD+R DLs, CDRWs, etc.

Thank you in advance. :)
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What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-02-27 02:22 -0600
  Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-27 07:02 -0500
    Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? android <here@there.was> - 2017-02-27 13:39 +0100
    Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-27 12:44 +0000
      Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? android <here@there.was> - 2017-02-27 13:59 +0100
        Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-27 14:41 +0000
          Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? android <here@there.was> - 2017-02-27 17:14 +0100
      Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-27 09:48 -0500
        Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-27 15:14 +0000
        Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? Jim Gibson <JimSGibson@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 10:48 -0800
          Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? android <here@there.was> - 2017-02-27 19:51 +0100
          Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-27 16:40 -0500
      Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-28 09:39 +0000
      Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-02-28 04:27 -0600
        Re: What's a good way to clean old MacBook Pros' optical drives' inside without opening them? "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-28 11:22 +0000

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