On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 10:11 AM Mike Katz via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still not sure how to clean the front of the head where the tape > touches the head. Any ideas?
Back in the day there was "Tape Head Cleaner" Which was a little tin of trichlorotrifluoroethane (a.k.a. Freon 113) where you screwed the cap off and it had a rod with a fluffy ball on the end inside, and you would slather that all over the heads of 9-track tape drives etc. It evaporated almost instantly. Of course after evaporating it floated up and destroyed the ozone layer, so probably not super obtainable these days. A search for "Tape Head Cleaner" suggests there are similar modern formulations used for HiFi equipment etc. that might be applicable.
