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HEET as DAT head cleaner
A friend of mine just called wanting to borrow my DAT machine to finish
her project. She said the one they were using was showing all sorts of error messages and sending up messages about it needing a cleaning. She told me the owner of the Deck was cleaning the heads with HEET! The gasoline additive, popular here in Alaska for "Drying out" our gas tanks. I have never heard of this. Does it work? I use lint free swabs and residue less Electro-wash from and electronics supply house. Anyone ever hear of using HEET to clean rotary heads/ Patric D'Eimon Anchorage, AK |
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Patric D'Eimon wrote:
A friend of mine just called wanting to borrow my DAT machine to finish her project. She said the one they were using was showing all sorts of error messages and sending up messages about it needing a cleaning. She told me the owner of the Deck was cleaning the heads with HEET! The gasoline additive, popular here in Alaska for "Drying out" our gas tanks. I have never heard of this. Does it work? I use lint free swabs and residue less Electro-wash from and electronics supply house. Anyone ever hear of using HEET to clean rotary heads/ No--but HEET is nearly pure methanol, so I don't see any real problem. |
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Patric D'Eimon wrote:
A friend of mine just called wanting to borrow my DAT machine to finish her project. She said the one they were using was showing all sorts of error messages and sending up messages about it needing a cleaning. She told me the owner of the Deck was cleaning the heads with HEET! The gasoline additive, popular here in Alaska for "Drying out" our gas tanks. I have never heard of this. Does it work? I use lint free swabs and residue less Electro-wash from and electronics supply house. Anyone ever hear of using HEET to clean rotary heads/ No--but HEET is nearly pure methanol, so I don't see any real problem. |
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In article , Patric D'Eimon wrote:
A friend of mine just called wanting to borrow my DAT machine to finish her project. She said the one they were using was showing all sorts of error messages and sending up messages about it needing a cleaning. She told me the owner of the Deck was cleaning the heads with HEET! The gasoline additive, popular here in Alaska for "Drying out" our gas tanks. I have never heard of this. Does it work? I use lint free swabs and residue less Electro-wash from and electronics supply house. Anyone ever hear of using HEET to clean rotary heads/ HEET is methanol. It's, well, it's not a very good grade of methanol. Cleaning heads with methanol is not too bad a thing, although isopropanol is probably more effective. But I would be worried about the amount of additional crap dissolved in something of that low a grade. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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In article , Patric D'Eimon wrote:
A friend of mine just called wanting to borrow my DAT machine to finish her project. She said the one they were using was showing all sorts of error messages and sending up messages about it needing a cleaning. She told me the owner of the Deck was cleaning the heads with HEET! The gasoline additive, popular here in Alaska for "Drying out" our gas tanks. I have never heard of this. Does it work? I use lint free swabs and residue less Electro-wash from and electronics supply house. Anyone ever hear of using HEET to clean rotary heads/ HEET is methanol. It's, well, it's not a very good grade of methanol. Cleaning heads with methanol is not too bad a thing, although isopropanol is probably more effective. But I would be worried about the amount of additional crap dissolved in something of that low a grade. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Patric D'Eimon wrote:
A friend of mine just called wanting to borrow my DAT machine to finish her project. She said the one they were using was showing all sorts of error messages and sending up messages about it needing a cleaning. She told me the owner of the Deck was cleaning the heads with HEET! The gasoline additive, popular here in Alaska for "Drying out" our gas tanks. I have never heard of this. Does it work? I use lint free swabs and residue less Electro-wash from and electronics supply house. Anyone ever hear of using HEET to clean rotary heads/ I've used it for years on VCR's and fixed audio heads. It's just alcohol..... jak Patric D'Eimon Anchorage, AK |
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Patric D'Eimon wrote:
A friend of mine just called wanting to borrow my DAT machine to finish her project. She said the one they were using was showing all sorts of error messages and sending up messages about it needing a cleaning. She told me the owner of the Deck was cleaning the heads with HEET! The gasoline additive, popular here in Alaska for "Drying out" our gas tanks. I have never heard of this. Does it work? I use lint free swabs and residue less Electro-wash from and electronics supply house. Anyone ever hear of using HEET to clean rotary heads/ I've used it for years on VCR's and fixed audio heads. It's just alcohol..... jak Patric D'Eimon Anchorage, AK |
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
Cleaning heads with methanol is not too bad a thing, although isopropanol is probably more effective. But I would be worried about the amount of additional crap dissolved in something of that low a grade. You can also get high purity methanol in the range of 99%. The problem is that nasty solvents like benzine are used to achieve that purity. Rob R. |
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
Cleaning heads with methanol is not too bad a thing, although isopropanol is probably more effective. But I would be worried about the amount of additional crap dissolved in something of that low a grade. You can also get high purity methanol in the range of 99%. The problem is that nasty solvents like benzine are used to achieve that purity. Rob R. |
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Rob Reedijk wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote: Cleaning heads with methanol is not too bad a thing, although isopropanol is probably more effective. But I would be worried about the amount of additional crap dissolved in something of that low a grade. You can also get high purity methanol in the range of 99%. The problem is that nasty solvents like benzine are used to achieve that purity. Those solvents are just fine for tape heads! What isn't fine are salts and gums and heavy oils and varnishes that leave a film behind after the solvent evaporates. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Rob Reedijk wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote: Cleaning heads with methanol is not too bad a thing, although isopropanol is probably more effective. But I would be worried about the amount of additional crap dissolved in something of that low a grade. You can also get high purity methanol in the range of 99%. The problem is that nasty solvents like benzine are used to achieve that purity. Those solvents are just fine for tape heads! What isn't fine are salts and gums and heavy oils and varnishes that leave a film behind after the solvent evaporates. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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