Cleaning a CD-DVD with Home Products

Hi I am Protocol, thanks for watching another functional tutorial and today I am going to show you how to properly clean a CD or DVD using only toothpaste and water. What you will want to do is flip over the CD on the back side. Take a little bit of the water, get the CD nice and moist so the toothpaste does not stick on. Make sure you have plenty of water all over the CD. Take a little bit of the toothpaste, preferably one without little crystals inside of it to prevent scratching of the CD. Put it right on your finger and start smearing it over the CD. You want to do this in one single motion, whether it be clockwise or counterclockwise. But before you do this. Proceed with caution. You do not want to get any water in the very center of the CD, not the silver part, right here, but the part within it that is completely transparent. If you do get any water in there it won’t affect the way the CD works but what might happen is that water may sip inside to the center of the CD which what has happened to me in previous times and I had to wait maybe five hours for the CD to dry before I knew it was safe that the CD could be put back into the Play Station 2 or in any instance into DVD or CD player. So proceed with caution before doing that. It won’t damage the CD but it is just a good note to look out for. Now that the CD is completely covered in toothpaste, you want to continue rubbing the toothpaste around in a counterclockwise or clockwise motion for about a minute just to make sure that the CD gets plenty clean. Now that you have cleaned out the CD with the toothpaste you want to take it to a sink and rinse it with warm water until all of the toothpaste is completely gone. Now that you have rinsed off all of the toothpaste that you applied to the CD earlier, you want to take a paper towel, set it down and let the CD just rest on top of it for a couple of minutes until the underside of it dries and then you want to make sure that the entire top side has been rinsed too just to be sure that it is free of any toothpaste that may have been left behind before and then you want to dry that side too. After that, give it a little rub over just to make sure that it is completely clean and completely dry. Good luck, I hope this method worked for you. If it didn’t don’t worry, there are plenty of kids out there to clean CDs with. I consider this a first resort before spending money on any after market product to clean CDs with. Because this for me has worked about five times and I have tried this maybe six. The other CD that did not work was completely grouched and I was just messing around but good luck, I hope this worked for you and have fun with your new life for your new CD. Have fun with your newly cleaned CD and sick around for next time for another functional tutorial. See you later.



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