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How to Manually Clean Your VCR Heads
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Tutorials Last Updated: July 12, 2005
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Cleaning the Control and Audio Heads

The control and audio heads are two separated heads but located on the same place, as you can see on Figure 5. The cleaning process is the same as the one used for the erase head: just rub a cotton swab with alcohol on them.

How to Clean Your VCR Heads
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Figure 5: Control and audio heads.

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Figure 6: Cleaning the control and audio heads.

How to Clean Your VCR Heads
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Figure 7: Cotton swab after the cleaning process. Yes, our VCR heads were dirty!

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