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For Your Information
Maintenance
Cleaning the tape heads and tape path
Contaminated heads cause poor recording or sound
drop-out in playback. We recommend cleaning after every
10 hours of operation. To make the best possible recording,
however, you should clean all surfaces over which tape
travels before each recording.
Wipe the heads, the pinch rollers and the capstans with a
cleaning swab slightly moistened with cleaning fluid or
alcohol.
Pinch roller
Playback head
Record/
playback head
After cleaning the heads, rollers and the tape path, insert a
tape when the areas cleaned are completely dry.
Demagnetizing the tape heads
After 20 to 30 hours of use, enough residual magnetism will
have built up on the tape heads to begin to cause loss of
high frequency sound and hiss. At this time, you should
demagnetize the heads and all metal parts in the tape path
with a commercially available tape head demagnetizer.
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Cleaning the cabinet
Clean the cabinet, pane! and controls with a soft cloth
slightly moistened with a mild detergent solution. Do not
use any type of abrasive pad, scouring powder or solvent.
such as alcohol or benzene.
Notes on Compact Discs
* Before playing, clean the CD with a cleaning cloth. Wipe
the CD from the center out.
Do not use solvents such as benzene, thinner,
commercially available cleaners or anti-static spray
intended for viny! LPs.
Do not expose the CD to direct sunlight or heat sources
such as hot air ducts, nor leave it in a car parked in direct
sunlight as there can be a considerable rise in
temperature inside the car.
After playing, store the CD in its case.
If there is a scratch, dirt or fingerprints on the CD, it may
cause tracking error.