camcorder cleaning cassette

[bballnut]

My sony digital 8 camcorder has a dirty head. I need a cleaning tape for it but can't seem to find one anywhere. It is a sony V8-25CLD cleaning cassette. All the web sites that say they carry it have it on backorder....no telling when I will get it. Sony does not support or make it anymore. I knew you guys and gals might have info on a site or store that might carry this cassette.
Any help would be appreciated.
Daughters graduation soon and need camera up and running.

[Marvingj]

Try Ebay..

[bballnut]

Try Ebay..

I did but nothing.

[samijubal]

Heads can be cleaned with a special chamois wet with alcohol, if you can get to the drum. It works far better than a cleaning tape. Chemtronics makes the best chamois.

[bballnut]

Heads can be cleaned with a special chamois wet with alcohol, if you can get to the drum. It works far better than a cleaning tape. Chemtronics makes the best chamois.

Is this item a cloth or q-tip type object? looked at their web site and could not find a chamois. Sorry but I have never heard of it before.

[JimboS]

Did a simple search and came up with 100's of places that sell them....
here is one:

http://www.tm-tape.com/special_pricing_items.asp?bustype=06&Mfr=20

[samijubal]

Heads can be cleaned with a special chamois wet with alcohol, if you can get to the drum. It works far better than a cleaning tape. Chemtronics makes the best chamois.

Is this item a cloth or q-tip type object? looked at their web site and could not find a chamois. Sorry but I have never heard of it before.

Here is what they look like:

https://www.tselectronic.com/chemtronics/cc15.html

Here they are in 15 packs:

http://www.aedwis.com/chemtronics.html

That was just a quick search, you might be able to find them cheaper somewhere else. You have to be able to get to the drum to use them.

[Megahurts]

The chamois with alcohol that samijubal recomended works good. Using a buissness card pressed against the drum and rotating 4 or 5 time works as well if not better.

How do you know you have a bad head? You didn't mention if the camcorder was Hi8/digital but if it was, play back a previous analog recorded tape. If it palysback with flashing video and snow then a head is clogged.

If it playsback with what looks like a tracking problem then it's not a clogged head problem. Sony has a history of tape guide set screws that come loose on the tape guides. The tape path will have to realigned.