On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 09:33:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> True for the most part, but please do not place the common Freon TF in that
> category when magnetic media is involved. 15 years ago at the tv station,
> I got tired of paying for Freon-TF by the gallon, and cleaning the heads on
> all our VCR's 2-4x daily, and tried cleaning one with paint thinner alcohol
> from ACE Hardware. I didn't have to clean it again for a week! So I
> switched cleaning agents on the spot. And it turned out that Freon-TF was
> also much harder on the elastomer parts like pinch rollers. I cut the time
> spent cleaning heads and rollers by 90%. Roller replacements went way down
> too.
True. I've never seen Freon being used for head cleaning except on
the old 2" video machines where it coud be sprayed on the moving
tape (even on-air in some cases) just before the rotating head.
For everything else alcohol was used.
Ciao,
-- Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux, mais nonchalant d’elle, et encore plus de mon jardin imparfait. (Michel de Montaigne) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-devReceived on Sun Jul 18 20:15:02 2010
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