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

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There is a little spinning wheel in the tape the is suppose to de-magnetise and I am just going to have to accept that it does the job. The AM Clean Sound Tapehead Cleaner is a safe and efficient cleaning solution that has been formulated to help you eradicate noise producing grease, adhesives, oxides and other contaminants from your tape heads, capstans and pinch rollers.

The tape crosses the heads at the center, the guides are mainly there to prevent very poorly made cassettes from jamming things up. It demagnetizes your system by using a spinning magnet, which removes remnant magnetic field or polarity that can distort playback.

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. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy.

I forgot to take some shots of the decks before cleaning, so you’ll have to take my word for it that the cleaning tape works as advertised. I was SO nervous putting any of my tapes in it, but now I can feel fairly confident that my tapes will survive. The demagnetising aspect of the tape works as advertised also, restoring crisp highs and lowering the noise floor of both decks. Premium tapes from the 1980's don't shed anywhere near as much as do cassettes from the 1960's for example.Plastic encased heads like those seen on early Philips / Norelco machines became uncommon as tape tech advanced. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. Some folks are saying it's not needed unless the machine was worked on with magnetized tools, others say it should be done regularly. The cleaner is supplied with two bottles of head cleaning fluid which judging by the smell is alcohol-based.

Well, when I had a cassette player in the car I would put the mechanism into play mode by pushing a lever that would normally be pushed by the entering cassette. You may have to repeat the process until all gunk / tape oxide / binder resin has completely disappeared and your head is shiny and spotless. They sent through a proof for me to confirm and were able to answer a few queries I had before sending it to print.Some say they have used denatured alcohol on them since dinosaurs roamed the earth and never had an issue. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. If ignored, it just keeps caking on reducing the highs in the audio at first and progressively making the sound muddier.