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 [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
