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What is a recommended head cleaning kit for cassette recorders? I will
be using mine on the studio deck, but also want to clean the one in
the car.

Willie K. Yee, M.D. http://users.bestweb.net/~wkyee
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Q-Tips and plain isopropyl alcohol, preferably 91% or purer.

Note that some swabs sold for electronic cleaning -- especially those with wood
sticks -- use glue to hold the cotton to the stick. You don't want that, as it
might dissolve and wind up on the head. Get swabs where the "sticking" is
strictly mechanical.

There are also cassettes with a fabric you soak with cleaner. Unless the heads
are hard to reach, I'd rather do it "by hand."

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"Willie K.Yee, M.D." <wkyee@bestweb.netttttttttttttttt> wrote in message
news:4137ca3d.3396962@nntp.bestweb.net...

> What is a recommended head cleaning kit for cassette recorders? I will
> be using mine on the studio deck, but also want to clean the one in
> the car.

To add to the other post, you can get some chamois-like cleaning sticks from
Radio Shack. They work pretty well.

Kent

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