Date   : Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:50:53 +0100
From   : "Colin" <cwhill@...>
Subject: Re: Cleaning Drive heads / Disc disaster

Isopropyl alcohol will probably be in most homes already as tape head/cd/vcr
head cleaner fluid (read the label first).
I would presume that that would do the job?
Colin Hill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete@...>
To: "Jon Ripley" <beeb@...>; <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Cleaning Drive heads / Disc disaster


> On Oct 23, 14:37, Jon Ripley wrote:
>
> > Ispropyl alcohol can, IMHO, be very hard to obtain because of the
> abuse
> > potential and toxicity - blindness then death.
>
> It's not all that toxic, about twice the TLV of methy alcohol.  But,
> yes, it's certainly open to abuse.  However, it's readily available
> from all of the electronics suppliers (especially CPC).
>
> > If there is a removable metal box surrounding the head that won't
> quite
> > go back on, they can usually be remounted securely with blu-tack.
>
> Blu-tak creeps, and eventually goes hard and loses its stickyness.  A
> better solution is a tiny amount of cool-melt glue, or a spot of
> Pritt-Stick adhesive.  Best of all is a drop of clear contact adhesive
> (UHU or Bostik).
>
> -- 
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
>
>