Cleaning HDD Heads & Platters

Sam

Member
I bet that green light doesn't show the smears/residue left from the cotton swab... or maybe it does.

Now I'm curious... bought a green light and will experiment with it. It would be nice to not have to have a fresh set of batteries in my LED flashlight just to see the tiniest specs of contamination.
 

adrianf25

New member
Jared":20hkutqp said:
The green light is interesting. The rest of it looks pretty much identical to the kit I got from Apex tools.

What type of green bulb is that?

Hello Jared,

Is https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G74J52T/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

On the other hand, in our tests:
Isopropyl alcohol (IPA) comes in different purities and uses. And this can make a "big" difference.

The one that gave us the most results is:
Degree H.P.L.C. (For High Pressure Liquid Chromatography).
From our supplier it would be:
https://www.sintorgan.com.ar/detalles.p ... 26&titulo=


I agree with the issue of NOVEC, it is very expensive and difficult to achieve.
You can use the Novec 7500 to keep your investment from evaporating quickly.
https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/ ... 334&rt=rud

Which has a Boiling Point Range higher than the Novec 7100
https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/ ... 247&rt=rud

We generally use the NOVEC, for the final process, or for head cleaning.


Best Regards
Engineer Adrián Francisconi
Skype: francisconi.hugo.adrian
 

LarrySabo

Member
michael chiklis":2z64mu25 said:
[post]14213[/post] Does someone of you know where to buy that cleaning tool or at least how's called?
I asked in the comments and the author replied
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It's not about the frame sensor cleaning swab. It's the fluid i used. And this one is custom made.
Not much help, I'm afraid.
 

Sam

Member
These work very, very well... at least in certain situations.

I do a lot of platter cleaning. When I read this post I was working with a dirty top platter of a 2.5" Hitachi. For something that should have taken 5 minutes I ended up spending at least 4 hours total on it and was only able to do a mediocre job... the ISO would dry into huge residue smears behind the wipe instead of "pull" along with the wipe and leave a spotless surface. Sure, you're always going to get nasty smears when swiping across media damaged areas, but this was a platter with only debris and absolutely no media damage.
After I developed a technique using the donor for this case, cleaning the entire platter on the patient took 60 seconds (using the same swab I cleaned the donor with).

Tried a swab on another case today--3.5'" WD. Platter securing ring had been grinding against dented-in lid. Contamination all over the place. Swab worked pretty well but I was able to do a better job, and more quickly with my normal method.

I will definitely keep a ready stock of these in my toolbox.
 
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