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Refugee · 27th Jul 2012, 7:00 pm

WD40 gets a bad reputation because the non technical spray it all over the item before they bring it for repair.
I had a VHS recorder with a borrowed tape stuck in it. Water had got into the tuner via the coax and there was half a can of WD40 in through the cassette hatch.
I managed to copy most of the two halves of the tape onto another blank one and carefully swapped the reels over into the shell with the label on it without ripping the label that went over the join.
The recorder was a write off.

27th Jul 2012, 7:00 pm	#34
Refugee Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK. Posts: 5,554	Re: Switch Cleaner WD40 gets a bad reputation because the non technical spray it all over the item before they bring it for repair. I had a VHS recorder with a borrowed tape stuck in it. Water had got into the tuner via the coax and there was half a can of WD40 in through the cassette hatch. I managed to copy most of the two halves of the tape onto another blank one and carefully swapped the reels over into the shell with the label on it without ripping the label that went over the join. The recorder was a write off.