Listen to what the other guys said: Isopropyl alcohol won't dissolve tape
residue...MEK, etc, will, but will also dissolve paint and almost any plastic
except nylon.

All speed and phase tracking on V8 is done by analyzing video head output. The
early Sony shop manuals have a very good description.



Hello Stephen,

that's what I anticipated Well I have cleaned
the video-head several times with Isopropyl,
but tracking problems remain. Either it's
an Hi-ESR problem now or I missed something.

How does tracking and speed-detection work
on Video8 without any control head, there
must be something to detect tape-speed,
isn't there ??

Regards,
Adrian



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