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- From: frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger)
- Subject: Re: VCR Maintenance Advice Wanted. Head Cleaners Any Good?
- Message-ID: <2SEP199218251640@rover.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Joint Center for Radiation Therapy
- References: <34kn3bj.noring@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:25:00 GMT
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- In article <34kn3bj.noring@netcom.com>, noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes...
- >Hello,
- >
- >We have our VCR in the repair shop for the second time in two years, and
- >again it is a very dirty head.
- >
- >Anyway, what I'd like to know is the current state-of-the-art of VCR head
- >(and capstan, etc.) cleaners, as well as other maintenance systems. The
- >repair person stated that there is no good system to clean the heads, rollers,
- >etc., other than getting in there with a soaked q-tip. However, I really
- >don't yet believe him since such advice is self-serving - I'd like to get
- >VCR maintenance advice from knowledgeable yet impartial people.
-
- Go out and buy the following:
-
- 1/ A bottle of alcohol and q-tips.
-
- 2/ A book from the local electronic jobber, (not radio shack, but
- something that caters to the trade,) and get a basic book on
- VCR repair.
-
- Then clean it yourself. Taking the cover off is the hardest part.
-
-
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