OT: Cleaning video head on my Betamax VCR
Mogens Kjaer
mk at crc.dk
Sun Aug 10 11:27:30 UTC 2008
Thompson Freeman wrote:
...
> As solvents, it is my impression that isopropyl alcohol and ethanol are
> very similar. As such, I'm curious if the video engineers have tried
> it.
>
In my spare time (!) I'm involved in a society for restoration
of old, Danish computers.
We have a ½" 9-track tape drive (with SCSI interface, connected to
a Fedora box, bringing it a bit on-topic again).
Some times when reading old magtapes, the heads become very dirty.
This drive is cleaned regularly with isopropanol (2-propanol).
Mogens
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