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[–] [email protected] 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

The recommended way of cleaning fixed heads, no matter if on a tape deck or on a floppy drive, is to just use a Q-tip with rubbing alcohol.

Helical-scan head drums like on any VCRs or any camcorders that used tape to record to, or on DAT decks and some data tape drives which used helical-scan formats like DAT/DDS or Data8/AIT, for example, are more delicate and have different recommendations for manual cleaning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have a favorite procedure for doing so? I got this old boombox (the kind you'd carry on your shoulder) but playing tapes on it sucks.

I want to try cleaning it, and was going to look into the head cleaner tapes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

From what I've seen from other YTers, a Q-tip and rubbing alcohol on the heads seems fine, TDNC and most retro computing creators do that with floppy drives frequently to good success and the same idea applies to tape deck heads.