Welcome.
There's this old "joke" that we sometimes repeat around here.
- Man: "Doctor, doctor, my groin hurts. Quick, tell me how to chop off my pecker so the pain goes away!"
- Doctor: "Uh, no. That's no the solution because..." (interrupted)
- Man: "I don't want an explanation, just tell me how to do it!"
I'm suddenely reminded of it. I never liked "don't explain things, just answer me".
Those "cleaning" tapes don't clean squat. Those push around dirt, make matters worse. Sometimes items are only sold because people are gullible/stupid enough to buy them. VHS "head cleaner" tapes are such a product. Those were made for people that were afraid to open a VCR (and/or did not read how to properly clean it;
NO Q-TIPS!). The "cleaning" from those tapes is more placebo that anything else.
These "tapes" are not actually tapes, and anything could cause them to seize up, especially since all of them will be a minimum of 20 years old now.