[LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Sun Jul 18 14:03:51 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 15:50 +0200, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 09:33:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> > True for the most part, but please do not place the common Freon TF in that 
> > category when magnetic media is involved.  15 years ago at the tv station, 
> > I got tired of paying for Freon-TF by the gallon, and cleaning the heads on 
> > all our VCR's 2-4x daily, and tried cleaning one with paint thinner alcohol 
> > from ACE Hardware.  I didn't have to clean it again for a week!  So I 
> > switched cleaning agents on the spot.  And it turned out that Freon-TF was 
> > also much harder on the elastomer parts like pinch rollers.  I cut the time 
> > spent cleaning heads and rollers by 90%.  Roller replacements went way down 
> > too.
> 
> True. I've never seen Freon being used for head cleaning except on
> the old 2" video machines where it coud be sprayed on the moving
> tape (even on-air in some cases) just before the rotating head. 
> 
> For everything else alcohol was used.
> 
> Ciao,

Alcohol moreover is less expensive and for those 'opened' spinning
things penetrating qualities aren't needed.




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