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Replace the discs. Cleaning would be of questionable effectiveness. A chemist would be better able to advise you regarding the effectiveness of isopropyl alcohol on turpentine, but I doubt that it would help. Anyway, solvents of any kind, including alcohols, should never be used on CD's. I am confident that you will receive a wide variety of opinions. Whatever you choose to do, test first on a disc of little or no value, and wait several months before your final evaluation. Jerry Media Sciences, Inc. Thomas Caw wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with cleaning turpentine spills on CDs? I > checked the NIST guide > <http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/disc_care/cleaning.html> but > found no mention of specific fluids. Here's the situation, as reported to > me by Rebecca Littman, Music Librarian here at University of > Wisconsin-Milwaukee: > > > We had a bunch of the "Great Pianists" series returned yesterday by an > > art student and several of them have paint on the outer cases, but > > a couple had turpentine on the discs themselves. > > Would isopropyl alcohol help in this case, or is the damage already done? > > Thanks, > > Tom Caw > > -- > Tom Caw > MM/MLIS degree candidate > Music Department/School of Information Studies > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > Milwaukee WI 53211 > 414-229-5529 > <[log in to unmask]>