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by avers
I have an old Sony camcorder that plays on tapes. We have a lot of home videos on the tapes, and last night we decided to play some of them. When we were watching, the audio was good and the picture didn't look all that bad, but it kept blinking. It was blinking a lot, so we decided to put some rubbing alcohol into the camcorder. We inserted the tape and tried to play it back to see if it worked. We heard the audio, but it only played a black screen. After an hour, we let the alcohol dry, and put in the tape again. Unfortunately, the audio still played, and no picture. Any help?
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Mar 06 '10
6:36 am PST
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This advice worked (Reply to this comment)
by ctyankee1
Thanks, my casset player makes the music sound much better.
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May 30 '07
4:25 pm PDT
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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.
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Jul 25 '01
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