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Originally Posted by Ed in Tx
I remember getting in VCRs the customer had used the wet type cleaner tape in. Would pick up whatever crud before the pinch roller then get rung out at the pinch roller leaving buildup mostly above and below the tape path which would dry on the capstan shaft. Tough stuff to get off without polishing compound.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
Ha! That reminds me of an '83 or 84 Panasonic model I looked at decades ago.
Have you seen/do you remember the spin paint machines at the fairs/carnivals? Where you'd set a plate (or, whatever) on a spinning turntable and squeeze the paint out of bottles? And, the paint would go all over the place including up against the interior walls of the machine?
Well, in this particular VCR there was some kind of white stain all over the inside. Maybe it was a wet cleaner that someone just totally overdosed on. Wherever it was sprayed outward from the upper cylinder. I have no idea what the substance was. But, it was all over the place and at the very same angle as the cylinder! Weird looking.