What do you people use for tape cleaning ?

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu Mar 1 10:38:57 2001

To tell you the truth I hadn'y even thought to look for it there, I'm too
busy looking for the drugs (hehehe). I'll see if the ones around here might
have it as my expensive HP squirt bottle of 97 or 99% is about gone (lasted
5 yrs). My next thought was maybe a chemical or scientific/lab supply where
I could buy a quart or so and be set for a long time.

The nice thing about the iso with a little water content is that it gets the
water solubles off at the same time the alcohol solubles come off whereas
denatured doens't alwys take care of the water based dirt, but it does do a
number on tar/nicotine from machines used around smokers.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Bill Pechter
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 8:40 AM
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: What do you people use for tape cleaning ?


> Denatured (wood) alcohol is available in the hardware stores, Walmrt, etc
> and is great for cleaning heads and rubber rollers.
>
> Also another reason not to use stock rubbing alcohol is the water content
as
> it can cause corrosion. Isopropyl alcohol made for head cleaning is over
90%
> alcohol but harder to find and way more expensive, but worth it with the
end
> effect.
>

90% Isopropyl used to be in the local drug stores for $1.00.
It seems the 70% stuff seems to be crowding it out on the shelves... but
it still can be found if you look for it.

Bill
Received on Thu Mar 01 2001 - 10:38:57 GMT