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03-18-2017, 03:01 PM
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Are these actually good for VHS players in the long-term or is an alternative method recommended?
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03-18-2017, 04:33 PM
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You mean those head-cleaning tapes that rub against your video heads, smear oily "cleaner" and tape residue all over your video/audio heads and all the moving parts so that another tape can just move it back it where came from?

Don't use them.
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