Yes you can use Isopropyl Alcohol and cotton swabs to clean the heads
on your Disk II.

Since you do not have any boot disks, I recommend you download the Dos
3.3 dump and manually enter it using the monitor (call-151) and then
"init" a blank diskette. From there you will be able to setup the
serial port (Apple Super Serial Card) to run ADT (Apple Disk Transfer)
between the Apple and a PC. Download your disk images (.dsk) from the
internet to the PC, and ADT them to the Apple: this creates a 140k dos
disk with all the files.

"J Church" <jc@ljchurch.co.invalid.uk> wrote in message news:<opr89sqlop6nbmtv@news.timewarp.co.uk>...
> Hi All
> 
> I've been lurking here for a couple of weeks.  Time to speak up and ask my  
> question.
> 
> I was just given an Apple IIe setup which includes a load of expansion  
> cards and a pair of Disk II 5.25" floppy drives.
> 
> The computer has been in a factory for a few years so is pretty grimy.   
> I'd like to give the Disk II's heads a clean before I put any disks in  
> there.
> 
> Anyone know where I can get a 5.25" floppy drive head cleaner?  I only  
> seem to be able to find 3.5" ones online.  I'm in the UK if it makes a  
> difference.
> 
> If not, can anyone recommend an alternative (cotton swabs, isopropyl  
> alcohol, something completely different?
> 
> Next step will be to get hold of some boot disks for the thing :-)
> 
> cheers
> 
> Julian Church