[LAU] Video micing question

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 20 April 2013 19:35:33 Fons Adriaensen did opine:

> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 04:16:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Another voice of experience from having attended the wars,  thanks
> > Fons.
> 
> Another essential tool is a bottle of acetone and earbuds
> to clean out the thick layers of soldering flux that some
> butchers leave...
> 
> Ciao,

Defacto std part of the kit Fons, don't get in the pickup without it.  I 
made a false assumption that everyone knew it because I did.

But with all the meth labs about, I sure get sideways looks when I haul a 
gallon of both that and alcohol to the register at ACE Hdwe.  To me they 
are just cleaning fluids.  And I buy your 'ear buds', aka q-tips, single 
ended 6" wooden sticks with a ball of cotton on one end, in 1000 piece 
cartons from Sherwood Medical at the pharmacy.  Around a tv station, a 
carton might last half a year, and the 2 quart cans of solvents I refill 
from the gallon cans will get refilled in a couple months each. I never 
ever stick a dirty one back in the can either.

We used to use freon TF for tape head cleaning too, but when they started 
yelling about the ozone layer, I switched to alcohol, and found that the 2x 
a day or better job was only needed maybe once a week when using alky.  
What the diff was, I don't know, but it sure cut down on the work, and much 
much more importantly, the make-goods because the head clogged up in the 
middle of the latest Ford commercial.

Cheers, Gene
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