wet tape cleaner for cassette player

[ap]

Hello,
we tend to use our boombox cassette player
quite a bit to play old tapes. We purchased
the cassette player about 4 months ago and play
about an hour of tapes a day.

I recently purchased a phillips wet tape cleaner
which has a cleaning tape and solution (from wmart).

is this safe to use on cassette player decks?


Please advice. THANKS

[Bruce J. Richman]

ap wrote:


> Hello,
> we tend to use our boombox cassette player
> quite a bit to play old tapes. We purchased
> the cassette player about 4 months ago and play
> about an hour of tapes a day.
>
> I recently purchased a phillips wet tape cleaner
> which has a cleaning tape and solution (from wmart).
>
> is this safe to use on cassette player decks?
>
>
> Please advice. THANKS

It is probably OK, but you might want to check with either Phillips or
the manufacturer listed on the package. As a perhaps safer
alternative, you might want to consider getting a cleaning cassette at
Radio Shack that uses a movable felt pads, not tape, to clean the heads
and capstans. Another safe method would be to use Q-tips with your
cleaning solvent.

[JBorg]

> ap wrote
>
>
>
> Hello,
> we tend to use our boombox cassette player
> quite a bit to play old tapes. We purchased
> the cassette player about 4 months ago and play
> about an hour of tapes a day.
>
> I recently purchased a phillips wet tape cleaner
> which has a cleaning tape and solution (from wmart).
>
> is this safe to use on cassette player decks?
>
>
> Please advice. THANKS



I always try to do the cleaning manually using Q-tips.
I use Q-tip with longer stem available in medical
supply. I use sol. specifically use for this purpose
and made sure to gently clean the head and the
rolling rubbers dry.

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