Any time I get three questions on the same topic in one week, I know it must deserve a little attention. The topic? Head cleaners, and whether and how not to use them. S.J.R. from a western suburb put ...

Use shampoo on your head. Use 3M’s Scotch VCR Head Cleaner Plus on your heads. Death, taxes and dirty VCR heads are certainties, but if you use brand name tapes you can postpone the last one. Most ...

Your parents are visiting for the weekend. After a pleasant dinner, everyone gathers in the family room for a video home movie. You turn on your TV and VCR, pop the cassette into the slot and hit the ...

Cleaning VCR heads is a dirty job, and everybody’s had to do it…but not any more. Each technology has its own Achilles Heel; for the VCR, it’s the tiny gap that’s part of recording and playback heads.