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It "Ate" My Tape!
by gsearle | Jul 25 '01
Stop tapes from being "eaten" by cleaning. Dealing with eaten tapes. Improve quality by demagnetizing heads.

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by ctyankee1
Thanks, my casset player makes the music sound much better.
May 30 '07
4:25 pm PDT

More on cleaning cassette players (Reply to this comment)
by 32_Footsteps
As someone who was trained professionally to clean audio cassette decks, I know plenty about the subject. And you need to add something.

Both of the two metallic heads, the eraser head and the reader head, on a cassette player need cleaning as much as the roller. Sometimes, accumulation of particles there causes the heads to keep a permanent magnetic charge. I leave it to you to discuss the proper solution to clean these with.

You also should discuss how often the decks should be cleaned. I work in a fairly large audio/visual laboratory, and we clean our machines, under fairly regular usage by customers, every week, schedules permitting. One you know how to do it, you can clean a set of heads and a couple of rollers in under five minutes, and your cassette player will last much longer than it otherwise would.
Jul 25 '01
7:57 am PDT
   

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