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Re: VCR Head Cleaninng Question - Jimmypoo - 09-01-2011
NO NO NO!!!
Head cleaners for VCRs were made from chlorofluorocarbons -- they are residue free and do not attack the tape in any way!
Find out, since R12 is gone, if you can find another supplier of freon as a cleaner. That's essentially what it was,
a stable, low temp, but highly evaporative cleaner.
Re: VCR Head Cleaninng Question - Chakravartin - 09-01-2011
space-time wrote:
and if you screw up, you can probably get another VCR for free these days
$5 bucks each at the Goodwill store a few months back.
My VCR died just as I was finishing a project for my sister. I picked up 3 at Goodwill, kept the one with the best picture and donated the others back to Goodwill.
Re: VCR Head Cleaninng Question - rjmacs - 09-01-2011
You mean amyl nitrite? Check your local 'adult novelty shop.' :quotes:
Re: VCR Head Cleaninng Question - JoeH - 09-01-2011
Jimmypoo wrote:
NO NO NO!!!
Head cleaners for VCRs were made from chlorofluorocarbons -- they are residue free and do not attack the tape in any way!
Find out, since R12 is gone, if you can find another supplier of freon as a cleaner. That's essentially what it was,
a stable, low temp, but highly evaporative cleaner.
The head cleaners have not contained CFC's since the early '90's. I know since they all started saying Freon free around then. The last ones I got used some petroleum distallate, been too long since I had a glance at the label to remember which.
Sure did miss the Freon based head cleaners though, they did a better job. But even the high-end cleaner we got at work for cleaning the reel-to-reel tape drives for the computers stopped being based on Freon by the mid-'90's. And that only lasted that long because it was the last of the csae we bought several years before.
Re: VCR Head Cleaninng Question - Chakravartin - 09-01-2011
Jimmypoo wrote:
NO NO NO!!!
Head cleaners for VCRs were made from chlorofluorocarbons -- they are residue free and do not attack the tape in any way!
I have a wet-type head cleaner right here.
The spray bottle says: "Contents: Isopropyl Alcohol.67630."
The "67630" refers to the chemical abstract number for isopropyl alcohol.
Re: VCR Head Cleaninng Question - DewGuy - 09-02-2011
Checked the bottle of "Memorex Head Cleaning Solution" for my old VHS cleaning cassette and found:
"Contains Isopropyl Alcohol."
Re: VCR Head Cleaninng Question - Racer X - 09-02-2011
rjmacs wrote:
You mean amyl nitrite? Check your local 'adult novelty shop.' :quotes:
Poppers?
Re: VCR Head Cleaninng Question - Jimmypoo - 09-04-2011
Just because someone puts IPA in a bottle doesn't make it the right cleaner for the job.
They still put IPA in record (vinyl) cleaners too... do you buy that?
If you've never owned an Otari or a Studer (I had both) or had an Ikegami camera and a master/slave Umatic that you signed personal responsibility for and had to insure it, you'd know not to use IPA.