Sometimes I have to run it two or three times. It keeps hitting the paper towel and wiping off whatever crud is on the lens. This whole time the disk keeps moving the lens up and down trying to get the laser in focus. It's just enough to keep the machine trying to read the disk until it times out. By revealing half the disk at regular intervals the machine keeps thinking 'I see it! No I don't! But wait! No. I had to reveal some CD so the machine would keep trying to read it. But since the paper towel doesn't reflect the laser the machine almost immediately rejected it. My initial prototype was just a paper towel glued to a CD. Try to clean off the exposed areas as best as possible. Peel or scrape off every other section of paper towel. Break it into eight sections as shown here. Now cut through the paper towel on the CD. Xacto knives or some such blade work well for this. Trim away any paper towel that sticks over the edge of the CD. You can try other adhesives, but this would probably be the least lumpy glue. An AOL disk or that Yanni album or something.Īpply a spray adhesive. I wound up making my own lens cleaner that works better than anything else I've tried. Sometimes it works to just flip the disk and make the CD/DVD/game player read the back of the disk a few times.

I started experimenting with alternate methods of cleaning the lens. Last summer, when I was living in my office, my new PS2 tried doing the same thing. In the end I had a clean lens, but the alignment was never right again.

When my first Playstation 2 stopped working because of a dirty laser lens I cracked it open to clean it by hand because nothing else was working. I've tried a few different ones and only one made any notable effect. I am not pleased with the state of CD lens cleaners in the world.

Ps2 lens cleaner