On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 15:50 +0200, fons@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> 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,
Alcohol moreover is less expensive and for those 'opened' spinning
things penetrating qualities aren't needed.
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