Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

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From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@...>

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Subject: Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010 - 2:04 pm

On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 15:50 +0200, fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:

quoted text

> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 09:33:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> > True for the most part, but please do not place the common Freon TF in that
> > category when magnetic media is involved. 15 years ago at the tv station,
> > I got tired of paying for Freon-TF by the gallon, and cleaning the heads on
> > all our VCR's 2-4x daily, and tried cleaning one with paint thinner alcohol
> > from ACE Hardware. I didn't have to clean it again for a week! So I
> > switched cleaning agents on the spot. And it turned out that Freon-TF was
> > also much harder on the elastomer parts like pinch rollers. I cut the time
> > spent cleaning heads and rollers by 90%. Roller replacements went way down
> > too.
>
> True. I've never seen Freon being used for head cleaning except on
> the old 2" video machines where it coud be sprayed on the moving
> tape (even on-air in some cases) just before the rotating head.
>
> For everything else alcohol was used.
>
> Ciao,

Alcohol moreover is less expensive and for those 'opened' spinning
things penetrating qualities aren't needed.

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Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Tim E. Real, (Mon Jul 19, 6:23 am)

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Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Folderol, (Sun Jul 18, 2:14 pm)

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Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, , (Sun Jul 18, 2:43 pm)

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Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Florian Faber, (Sun Jul 18, 3:07 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Ralf Mardorf, (Sun Jul 18, 1:28 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Gene Heskett, (Sun Jul 18, 2:56 am)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, , (Sun Jul 18, 9:14 am)

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Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Gene Heskett, (Sun Jul 18, 1:33 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, , (Sun Jul 18, 1:50 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Ralf Mardorf, (Sun Jul 18, 2:04 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Arnold Krille, (Sat Jul 17, 9:20 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Ralf Mardorf, (Sat Jul 17, 9:17 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, drew Roberts, (Sat Jul 17, 10:04 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Gene Heskett, (Sun Jul 18, 2:59 am)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, drew Roberts, (Sun Jul 18, 2:07 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Gene Heskett, (Sun Jul 18, 2:49 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Folderol, (Sun Jul 18, 3:05 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Frank Smith, (Mon Jul 19, 8:25 am)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Geoff Beasley, (Mon Jul 19, 8:32 am)

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Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Ralf Mardorf, (Sun Jul 18, 6:30 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, James Morris, (Sun Jul 18, 9:37 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Ralf Mardorf, (Sat Jul 17, 10:23 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Ralf Mardorf, (Sat Jul 17, 10:19 pm)

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Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, , (Sat Jul 17, 9:23 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Ralf Mardorf, (Sat Jul 17, 9:28 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Folderol, (Sat Jul 17, 10:32 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Ralf Mardorf, (Sat Jul 17, 10:45 pm)

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC, Ralf Mardorf, (Sat Jul 17, 9:22 pm)