hugh@hcrvx1.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier) (01/22/85)
I want to clean my cassette deck's pinch rollers. I have been told that alcohol dries rubber and rubber-like stuff out, so don't use it. In my investigation, I have been told the following facts/factoids by various unreliable sources. - isopropyl alcohol is OK - lighter fluid is great (a Radio Shack person said this, suggesting I not buy the RS "Freon TF" stuff because the lighter fluid is cheaper) - at RS, the isopropyl is roughly twice as expensive as the stuff with "Freon TF" (trifluoroethane??) - the Akai tape cleaning kit from a discount HiFi store (with two bottles of liquid, one for metal parts, one for rubber, and some swabs) costs about 7 time what the RS Freon TF stuff does (the bottles are bigger, but not that much) So: what is the advice of the net? Mail to me; I will post a summary if warranted