Help with cartravision

[colorfixer]

Varsol is a cleaning solvent used in the printing industry to dissolve printing inks used in offset lithography (printing). It works very well to dissolve hardened petroleum and organic greases. I used to use it to dissolve the hardened grease that Apple used in their sony oem'ed disc drive mechanisms.

It works almost a well as CFC based cleaners. It is a cleaner/solvent made from a kerosene derivitive and some other unknown materials that presumably fell to earth .

What is nice is that it will dissolve old grease with no effort, and dry to leave no residue, without giving the user a buzz.

[cartravision]

Abc

[jeyurkon]

Sounds like you found a very helpful and knowledgeable person. I second the "don't use Q-tips or cotton." It took me forever to remove the cotton that caught on the heads in my VCR.

John

[leadlike]

If the possibility of bad heads arises, you luckily have a few spare sets lying around! Can the heads just be changed out? I wonder as I had a very old Quasar video tape player (it took some oddball coaxial cartridge, so this is very pre-VHS) and all you had to do was lift the top, twist off a knurled hold down, and the video head drum was free!

Hey! Just thought I'd check before I posted and Labguy has one of these! He's excited about the ez-clean heads too!

http://www.labguysworld.com/Quasar_VR-1000.htm

Another memory of this thing just strikes me-it had a dehumidifier built into it! I guess if you thought your tapes were a bit damp (?) you hit this switch on the front and a very LOUD fan would kick on.