In case you haven't done it before:
<http://www.ehow.com/how_10507_maintain-cassette-deck.html>
Some of us have done this far more than we have been typing on
computers...
Plain alcohol is better than commercial liquids - you never know what
they put in them, and what you need is cleaning, not pretty colors or
scents. Though I think the TDK is okay - sniff it and if it smells
mainly like alcohol, it should be okay. If it smells like glass
cleaner, dispose of it in a toxic waste manner, and use alcohol on
your tape decks!
{Plus if the TDK is over ten years old, the acohol might be gone and
only the frilly additives left - like when I cleaned out my
sepfather's old bar - 15 year old Gin was just juniper water...)
<L>
Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:40 AM, Juan Mazar Barnett wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a small sony tape recorder (those with an inbuilt mic and so
> on)
> that I want to use now to listen to old tapes and I was wondering if I
> should try and clean the heads, to protect the tapes.
>
> I remember I usually did that on my TCM 5000 with alcohol and a
> cotton bud.
> Would this be ok?
>
> Also, I found at home a small bottle of a TDK cleaning liquid - for
> head
> cleaner
> (CL-HC15E). I thought I could use this on the cotton buds instead of
> alcohol.
>
> Any ideas of what and how to do it?
>
> thanks so much in advance,
> juan
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