If, when you last punched ”play” on your video cassette recorder, Rambo turned into a fibrillating mess, don`t despair. Your machine may be suffering from Very Cruddy Recording disease, and a remedy ...

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 ...

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.