Vinyl Styl Audio Cassette Head Cleaner & Demagnetizer - for Home/Auto/Portable

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The cleaner is supplied with two bottles of head cleaning fluid which judging by the smell is alcohol-based.I have found it easier to clean a pinch roller by scrubbing across the face of it in the same direction the capstan engages it.

Nevertheless, it's very useful in bag making as it's incredibly sticky, very strong and you can bend it around lumps! People have recommended MEK( methyl ethyl ketone) although on crystalloy Nakamichi heads I'd be skeptical using that.

We'll never send you spam, we won't sell your information or share it with any 3rd parties, and you can unsubscribe at any time. On some machines you can actually get your hands into the mechanism and put a finger on the roller to keep it from moving while you clean a little bit at a time. Some folks are saying it's not needed unless the machine was worked on with magnetized tools, others say it should be done regularly.

Worst case scenario the tape is skewed, pulled at an angle, which permanently damages it by leaving creases. On very old machines like the 1960's Norelco that's in pic 3, it's not uncommon for the heads to have a little weirdness on the edges. This is when the tape wanders off it's intended path across the heads and gets crinkled by the guides. CrazyGadget Audio Cassette Head Cleaner Tape Player Dust Cleaning Clear Sound Listen Music and Voice Audio Cassette Head Cleaner - Suitable For All Audio Cassette Players High Quality Dry Buff Type - Removes Oxide Deposits. I have to hope so because a TDK HD-01 costs a small fortune and I've never had the confidence to wave a demagnetising wand inside my deck.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Enjoy your tapes but don't forget to clean more regularly when listening to cassettes made in the 60's and 70's or off brand stuff as they are just as bad. Anyway, how are you going to clean the path of a side loading or, especially, "very special kind" mechanism (like those which do auto reverse by flipping the cassette itself)?

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