How do I clean a cassette camcorder if I dont haved a casette cleaner? I also blew in it, didnt work?

Answer 1

You have to know what you are doing for this. Open the cassette holder and remove the cassette, if inserted. Look into the cassette hole and you should see a chrome cylindrical drum. This is the drum with pick up heads that the tape passes over to transfer the signal to/from the camera. If you look very carefully you will see small "pick-ups" on this drum around its circumference. Usually there are between 4 and 8 "heads" on the drum and the drum turns with these heads. It is these "heads" that require to be clean as they can accumulate small amounts of magnetic tape that reduce or stop the transfer of information. To clean these heads you will need to get pure industrial alcohol to clean the heads, called isopropyl alcohol. I use a clean blunt wooden stick to turn the drum to the best position for each head and then use a No.2 pure sable brush cut down to 3 mm making it quite stiff. This brush is dipped into the alcohol and then brushed onto each head in turn to clean the head. Leave the camera for a few minutes to allow all alcohol to evaporate and then insert your cassette and see if your picture is now OK. It may take a few applications of alcohol cleaning before the heads are fully clean. As I said in the beginning you need to know what you are doing or you could damage the heads completely.

Answer 2

Go out and get your self a video cleaning tape kit ..... zellers & Kmart have them for Hi 8 & vhs ..... about $10 ... follow the instructions .... if you use the brush method and brush the video head the wrong way, you may just bend it the wrong way and damage the whole video drum assembly ... that will cost from $300 and up depending on the machine ..... or take it to a reputible repair shop that you trust for a cleaning ... but most only use the same $10 cleaning tape and charge you $20 to $50 for the cleaning job ...... some scary repair shops will try to sell you new video heads, even when you just need to clean them. Good luck :-)

Answer 3

with a thinner