From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!hou5d!hou5a!mat Newsgroups: net.audio Title: Re: Tape recorder maintainence Article-I.D.: hou5a.197 Posted: Sun Jan 2 23:20:38 1983 Received: Mon Jan 3 00:58:01 1983 References: watcgl.88 Laquer Thinner on a pinch rolleer ... Zounds, what next! I think that Aromatic Hydrocarbon probably refers to something in the TriChlorEthene/ PerChlorEthene family. Before trying out your chemistry set on your H.K. deck, consider DiscWashers Capstan-Pinchroller cleaning cassette. I used it recently on my car deck to clean up a particularly dirty set of pinch rollers. It seems to use a water-based cleaner, seems to be very through, and gets both the capstan and the pinch roller. The only problem is that it drives decks with auto-revers mad, and you may have trouble with an auto-stop deck, since most of these use capstan tension to indicate that the tape is to be stopped/rreversed/rewound/whatever.