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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: VCR Head Cleaning
Message-ID: <433@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 13:46:44 EST
Article-I.D.: nicmad.433
Posted: Thu Nov 21 13:46:44 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 10:09:28 EST
References: <836@houxa.UUCP> <1452@ihlpg.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <1452@ihlpg.UUCP> fish@ihlpg.UUCP (Bob Fishell) writes:
>VCR heads are sealed, and should not require cleaning in normal use.  If
>there's a heavy smoker in the house, or if you've played a tape that's shedding
>oxide, you can open the recorder up and clean the heads with alcohol and
>cotton.
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Never, but NEVER use cotton on video heads.  The cotton fibers will come off,
say a swab, and maybe get caught in the head gap area, making the tape lift
away from the head.  The result will be no recording.

There are special swabs that do not shed.  Nortron makes a VCR head cleaning
kit that contains the liquid and the special swabs.  Use that instead.
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