The recommended way of cleaning fixed heads, no matter if on a tape deck or on a floppy drive, is to just use a Q-tip with rubbing alcohol.
Helical-scan head drums like on any VCRs or any camcorders that used tape to record to, or on DAT decks and some data tape drives which used helical-scan format like DAT/DDS or Data8/AIT, for example, are more delicate and have different recommendations for manual cleaning.
The recommended way of cleaning fixed heads, no matter if on a tape deck or on a floppy drive, is to just use a Q-tip with rubbing alcohol.
Helical-scan head drums like on any VCRs or any camcorders that used tape to record to, or on DAT decks and some data tape drives which used helical-scan format like DAT/DDS or Data8/AIT, for example, are more delicate and have different recommendations for manual cleaning.
Do you have a favorite procedure for doing so? I got this old boombox (the kind you’d carry on your shoulder) but playing tapes on it sucks.
I want to try cleaning it, and was going to look into the head cleaner tapes.