Cleaning Heads in the UK!
 

I've run out of my dear old supply of 90% Isopropyl Alcohol - and have found
out that this essential item for tape head cleaning is NOT AVAILABLE over
the counter in the UK...

As a person who already knows those stupid "head-cleaning tapes" don't
really do such a great job, I find it odd that such a simple thing as
Isopropyl Alcohol isn't available, even at the Rx counter. At the various
"stereo" stores all one finds are drones with "just my shelf, mate" written
all over their faces when you ask what would otherwise be a simple question.

So what do intelligent people use to clean their tape heads properly here?
Has the EU has made it illegal to possess it or something? Thanks in
advance.

--
Steve Goodman
* EarthLight Productions
* http://www.earthlight.net

Cleaning Heads in the UK!
 

In article 1r%cc.6332$jI6.2401@newsfe1-win,
Revd. Norle Enturbulata wrote:
I've run out of my dear old supply of 90% Isopropyl Alcohol - and have
found out that this essential item for tape head cleaning is NOT
AVAILABLE over the counter in the UK...

I bought some from my local chemist a few weeks ago.

--
*Sometimes I wake up grumpy; Other times I let him sleep.

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

Cleaning Heads in the UK!
 

I've run out of my dear old supply of 90% Isopropyl Alcohol - and have
found
out that this essential item for tape head cleaning is NOT AVAILABLE over
the counter in the UK...

As a person who already knows those stupid "head-cleaning tapes" don't
really do such a great job, I find it odd that such a simple thing as
Isopropyl Alcohol isn't available, even at the Rx counter. At the various
"stereo" stores all one finds are drones with "just my shelf, mate"
written
all over their faces when you ask what would otherwise be a simple
question.

So what do intelligent people use to clean their tape heads properly here?
Has the EU has made it illegal to possess it or something? Thanks in
advance.

Steve,
You're looking in the wrong places. www.maplin.co.uk list Isopropyl Alcohol
and I'm sure that many other spares suppliers do to.
Never go to Dixons for anything ever :)

Cleaning Heads in the UK!
 

"Revd. Norle Enturbulata" wrote in message
news:1r%cc.6332$jI6.2401@newsfe1-win...
I've run out of my dear old supply of 90% Isopropyl Alcohol - and have
found
out that this essential item for tape head cleaning is NOT AVAILABLE over
the counter in the UK...

As a person who already knows those stupid "head-cleaning tapes" don't
really do such a great job, I find it odd that such a simple thing as
Isopropyl Alcohol isn't available, even at the Rx counter. At the various
"stereo" stores all one finds are drones with "just my shelf, mate"
written
all over their faces when you ask what would otherwise be a simple
question.

So what do intelligent people use to clean their tape heads properly here?
Has the EU has made it illegal to possess it or something? Thanks in
advance.

--
Steve Goodman
* EarthLight Productions
* http://www.earthlight.net





Have you tried a Chemist?


--

Woody

Cleaning Heads in the UK!
 

"JustMe" wrote in message
...
I've run out of my dear old supply of 90% Isopropyl Alcohol - and have
found
out that this essential item for tape head cleaning is NOT AVAILABLE
over
the counter in the UK...

As a person who already knows those stupid "head-cleaning tapes" don't
really do such a great job, I find it odd that such a simple thing as
Isopropyl Alcohol isn't available, even at the Rx counter. At the
various
"stereo" stores all one finds are drones with "just my shelf, mate"
written
all over their faces when you ask what would otherwise be a simple
question.

So what do intelligent people use to clean their tape heads properly
here?
Has the EU has made it illegal to possess it or something? Thanks in
advance.

Steve,
You're looking in the wrong places. www.maplin.co.uk list Isopropyl
Alcohol
and I'm sure that many other spares suppliers do to.
Never go to Dixons for anything ever :)

Although expensive at £5 a can I've found the servisol stuff good,
particularly the switch cleaning aerosol, which Maplins sell along with the
canned alcohol.

But back on topic - you can (quite) easily get isopropyl in small
quantities, say 1L, from a chemist. You have to put up with a load of
questions and suffer a degree of indignity but they will sell it IME.

Rob

Cleaning Heads in the UK!
 

"JustMe" wrote in message
...
I've run out of my dear old supply of 90% Isopropyl Alcohol - and have
found
out that this essential item for tape head cleaning is NOT AVAILABLE
over
the counter in the UK...

As a person who already knows those stupid "head-cleaning tapes" don't
really do such a great job, I find it odd that such a simple thing as
Isopropyl Alcohol isn't available, even at the Rx counter. At the
various
"stereo" stores all one finds are drones with "just my shelf, mate"
written
all over their faces when you ask what would otherwise be a simple
question.

So what do intelligent people use to clean their tape heads properly
here?
Has the EU has made it illegal to possess it or something? Thanks in
advance.

Steve,
You're looking in the wrong places. www.maplin.co.uk list Isopropyl
Alcohol
and I'm sure that many other spares suppliers do to.
Never go to Dixons for anything ever :)

Hell no! :) Thanks. I've been driving the pharmacists crazy here.

--
Steve Goodman
* EarthLight Productions
* http://www.earthlight.net

Cleaning Heads in the UK!
 

"RJH" wrote in message
...

"JustMe" wrote in message
...
I've run out of my dear old supply of 90% Isopropyl Alcohol - and have
found
out that this essential item for tape head cleaning is NOT AVAILABLE
over
the counter in the UK...

As a person who already knows those stupid "head-cleaning tapes" don't
really do such a great job, I find it odd that such a simple thing as
Isopropyl Alcohol isn't available, even at the Rx counter. At the
various
"stereo" stores all one finds are drones with "just my shelf, mate"
written
all over their faces when you ask what would otherwise be a simple
question.

So what do intelligent people use to clean their tape heads properly
here?
Has the EU has made it illegal to possess it or something? Thanks in
advance.

Steve,
You're looking in the wrong places. www.maplin.co.uk list Isopropyl
Alcohol
and I'm sure that many other spares suppliers do to.
Never go to Dixons for anything ever :)

Although expensive at £5 a can I've found the servisol stuff good,
particularly the switch cleaning aerosol, which Maplins sell along with
the
canned alcohol.

But back on topic - you can (quite) easily get isopropyl in small
quantities, say 1L, from a chemist. You have to put up with a load of
questions and suffer a degree of indignity but they will sell it IME.

Every Rx counter I've dealt with in the past year has told me that Iso
Alcohol is a controlled substance that they are prohibited to sell, and
refused to discuss it further. God knows what diabetics have to go through
here.


--
Steve Goodman
* EarthLight Productions
* http://www.earthlight.net

Cleaning Heads in the UK!
 

"Woody" wrote in message
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"Revd. Norle Enturbulata" wrote in
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I've run out of my dear old supply of 90% Isopropyl Alcohol - and have
found
out that this essential item for tape head cleaning is NOT AVAILABLE
over
the counter in the UK...

As a person who already knows those stupid "head-cleaning tapes" don't
really do such a great job, I find it odd that such a simple thing as
Isopropyl Alcohol isn't available, even at the Rx counter. At the
various
"stereo" stores all one finds are drones with "just my shelf, mate"
written
all over their faces when you ask what would otherwise be a simple
question.

So what do intelligent people use to clean their tape heads properly
here?
Has the EU has made it illegal to possess it or something? Thanks in
advance.

--
Steve Goodman
* EarthLight Productions
* http://www.earthlight.net





Have you tried a Chemist?

As I said, even at the Rx (prescription) counter - it's where I used to get
it in the US. Over the regular counter the stuff is only 70% with water. I
don't want no steenking water residue on my heads! So I always went to the
pharmacist counter to get the 90% alcohol. It wasn't until I saw the supply
I brought with me starting to dwindle that I started checking around, only
to be told it was a "controlled substance". And given the bizarre nature of
some regulations in the UK/EU - like the one prohibiting a wall light switch
inside a bathroom! Priceless! - I'd come to think I was going to have to
either smuggle some in, or use a lot of those awful "cleaning tapes".


--
Steve Goodman
* EarthLight Productions
* http://www.earthlight.net

Cleaning Heads in the UK!
 

"Revd. Norle Enturbulata" wrote in message
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"Woody" wrote in message
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"Revd. Norle Enturbulata" wrote in
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I've run out of my dear old supply of 90% Isopropyl Alcohol - and have
found
out that this essential item for tape head cleaning is NOT AVAILABLE
over
the counter in the UK...

As a person who already knows those stupid "head-cleaning tapes" don't
really do such a great job, I find it odd that such a simple thing as
Isopropyl Alcohol isn't available, even at the Rx counter. At the
various
"stereo" stores all one finds are drones with "just my shelf, mate"
written
all over their faces when you ask what would otherwise be a simple
question.

So what do intelligent people use to clean their tape heads properly
here?
Has the EU has made it illegal to possess it or something? Thanks in
advance.

--
Steve Goodman
* EarthLight Productions
* http://www.earthlight.net





Have you tried a Chemist?

As I said, even at the Rx (prescription) counter - it's where I used to
get
it in the US. Over the regular counter the stuff is only 70% with water.
I
don't want no steenking water residue on my heads! So I always went to
the
pharmacist counter to get the 90% alcohol. It wasn't until I saw the
supply
I brought with me starting to dwindle that I started checking around, only
to be told it was a "controlled substance". And given the bizarre nature
of
some regulations in the UK/EU - like the one prohibiting a wall light
switch
inside a bathroom! Priceless! - I'd come to think I was going to have to
either smuggle some in, or use a lot of those awful "cleaning tapes".



Fuxache - it's 7 quid a gallon from my local Chemical Supplier!**

(See it tucked in the bottom left corner of:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/speakers.jpg

..... next to the Distilled Water....!!!)


Woss all the fuss?


**The clue is in the company description - get Googling or get the Yellow
Pages out....!!

(Tip: Use the Chemist only for pile cream and cotton buds, even the Johnnies
are cheaper from yer barber..... ;-)

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"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Revd. Norle Enturbulata" wrote in
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"Woody" wrote in message
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"Revd. Norle Enturbulata" wrote in
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news:1r%cc.6332$jI6.2401@newsfe1-win...
I've run out of my dear old supply of 90% Isopropyl Alcohol - and
have
found
out that this essential item for tape head cleaning is NOT AVAILABLE
over
the counter in the UK...

As a person who already knows those stupid "head-cleaning tapes"
don't
really do such a great job, I find it odd that such a simple thing
as
Isopropyl Alcohol isn't available, even at the Rx counter. At the
various
"stereo" stores all one finds are drones with "just my shelf, mate"
written
all over their faces when you ask what would otherwise be a simple
question.

So what do intelligent people use to clean their tape heads properly
here?
Has the EU has made it illegal to possess it or something? Thanks
in
advance.

--
Steve Goodman
* EarthLight Productions
* http://www.earthlight.net





Have you tried a Chemist?

As I said, even at the Rx (prescription) counter - it's where I used to
get
it in the US. Over the regular counter the stuff is only 70% with
water.
I
don't want no steenking water residue on my heads! So I always went to
the
pharmacist counter to get the 90% alcohol. It wasn't until I saw the
supply
I brought with me starting to dwindle that I started checking around,
only
to be told it was a "controlled substance". And given the bizarre
nature
of
some regulations in the UK/EU - like the one prohibiting a wall light
switch
inside a bathroom! Priceless! - I'd come to think I was going to have
to
either smuggle some in, or use a lot of those awful "cleaning tapes".



Fuxache - it's 7 quid a gallon from my local Chemical Supplier!**

(See it tucked in the bottom left corner of:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/speakers.jpg

.... next to the Distilled Water....!!!)

Nice pointing, by the way. I don't know what "Fuxache" is either... Most
likely another bizarre name eh?

Woss all the fuss?

Dirty heads are a bit of a "fuss" when trying to archive old tape, yes?


**The clue is in the company description - get Googling or get the Yellow
Pages out....!!

(Tip: Use the Chemist only for pile cream and cotton buds, even the
Johnnies
are cheaper from yer barber..... ;-)

...."Johnnies"?


--
Revd. Norle Enturbulata
"Church" of Cartoonism

"Radiation is apparently enormously water-soluble as well as
water removable. According to researchers, one merely
has to take a hose to a building surface or a road to
wash the radiation off of it. This factor is well known
to defense trained personnel."
- L. Ron Hubbard, Clear Body, Clear Mind, page 47
*
"This volume probably contains more promises and less evidence per page
than has any publication since the invention of printing."
- Review of "Dianetics", Scientific American, 1951