Re: OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR

On Sunday 10 August 2008 04:43, John Aldrich wrote:
On Saturday 09 August 2008, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Saturday 09 August 2008 22:20, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:59:50 +0200

Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Any suggestions as to what I can use to manually clean the video
head? I'm thinking cleaning fluids here.

Alcohol.

That's what I use to clean crud out of the film projector in my theatre

.

Thanks Frank. I was sort of thinking along the alcohol line, but just
wanted some confirmation.

What are you showing in your theatre this evening?

PLEASE don't go out and buy a bottle of rubbing alcohol. Go get some
medical grade alcohol, or PGA (as pure as possible) and take a piece of an
old, CLEAN *** and soak it in the high-grade alcohol, hold it *LIGHTLY*
against the drum and then spin the drum. Try very hard not to let it catch
the cloth on the heads.

I deliberately posted this OT? to the Fedora list, because I fully expected a
reply from Gene, but not so many answers, from so many folks with fine
suggestions. Thanks everyone.

I've got the old clean ***, so tomorrow will cycle down to down, and attempt
to explain in French at the local pharmacy, that I want to buy some pure
alcohol, and what it's for. Hopefully I won't get any funny looks from the
staff, and will come away with a small bottle of this miracle worker.

Nigel.

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