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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet
  4. From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
  5. Subject: Re: VCR Maintenance Advice Wanted. Head Cleaners Any Good?
  6. References: <2AA6BA13.14151@news.service.uci.edu> <34kn3bj.noring@netcom.com> <1992Sep3.121728.13233@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Sep3.142137.4263@ncar.ucar.edu>
  7. Message-ID: <Bu2545.BC7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  8. Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
  9. Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
  10. Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:19:17 GMT
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  14. In article <2AA6BA13.14151@news.service.uci.edu> gkwan@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Greg Kwan) writes:
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  16. >When cleaning audio or video heads, only go in the direction of the
  17. >tape travel; perpendicular cleaning can ruin the head. I also agree
  18. >with only using foam covered Q-tips on VCR's.
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  20. A video repair tech I know and respect uses a small square cut from a deerskin
  21. chamois on the end of a wooden tongue depressor to clean video heads. He
  22. wets it down with the usual (freon-based?) video head cleaning fluid.
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