Dr ZEE said:i've found THIS ,
am not sure what's the deal there with shipping to canada: they say - "We offer shipping worldwide, but minimum order quantities apply and rates will vary to other areas."
Hey, guys, Beck? ...other long time tape-recordists, question: Is anything 'potentially' bad/wrong with using 'head cleaning products', besids maybe higher cost while there's nothing much to it....
I still have and use some radioshack/realistic head cleaner. I hope I do not harm my machines... I've no idea what exactly 'formular' of this thing.
Radioshack now has this: hope the link works - A/V Head Cleaning Solvent
CAIG makes great stuff. But I never used their head cleaning products.
CaiKleen A/V - VTR/VCR Precision Cleaner
I'd guess it must be at least good. ????? CAIG also have some restrictions on international orders... you need to check out their shipping policy.
Aaah, that would explain the sunburn down here....analogue users cleaning their decks with CFCs.Beck said:Unless you want some Freon-based cleaner, which some people like
CFCs are completely artificial (they did not exist in nature before being synthesized by man). They are used in air conditioning/cooling units, as aerosol spray propellants prior to the 1980s, and in the cleaning processes of delicate electronic equipment, and are a byproduct of some chemical processes. As mentioned in the ozone cycle overview above, when such ozone-depleting chemicals reach the stratosphere, they are dissociated by ultraviolet light to release chlorine atoms. The chlorine atom acts as a catalyst which can break down many thousands of ozone molecules before it is removed from the stratosphere. Given the longevity of CFC molecules, recovery times are measured in decades. It is calculated that a CFC molecule takes an average of 15 years to go from the ground level up to the upper atmosphere, and it can stay there for about a century, destroying up to one hundred thousand ozone molecules during that time.
When the Antarctic ozone hole does break up, the ozone-depleted air drifts out into nearby areas. Decreases in the ozone level of up to 10% have been reported in New Zealand in the month following the break-up of the Antarctic ozone hole.
Beck said:The only thing you get when you buy something called “head cleaner” is a little bit of Isopropyl or denatured alcohol for a whole lota money.