09-01-2011, 07:55 PM
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.