Cleaning Head & Drum Help

[bob52]

Hi

I'm bob and need some help

I managed to pick up a TBC VCR for £60 at a car boot sale (no remote) its a Panasonic NV HS-960

I have put some photos of the VCR so that you can see the inside condition of it (without opening it)

I tested the vcr at home (Vcr Svideo to Camcorder (pass thru) than Camcorder to PC (via Firewire)

All looks ok, but i would like to get the heads and drums clean as a peace of mind and i am about to

embark to transferring 20 VHS tapes to MP4

I have read the guides and seen the videos on tube on how to clean the heads and drums , but i'm a

little nervous and opening the VCR up and trying it myself especially the drum cleaning procedure.

So i was wondering .... is there any forum members that can do that for me i will of course pay for the service and

all postage charges ( i live in the UK). If not can anyone recommend a shop where i can get it done, i can post off the VCR anywhere in the UK

i know there are lots of electrical shops around, but i wanted to ask here at VideoHelp which ones are good and will do the job properly

Thanks in advance

Bob (53 retired)

[bob52]

Hello

Just a update i asked a few electical shops in my area and what they said was the parts will need replacing. First they would charge £10 to open up the vcr and then they would inspect and replace the the parts. I send them a second email saying nothing needs replacing just cleaned and never got a response from them. CROOKS

so on sunday opened up the vcr is wasnt that dirty cleaned the heads and cleaned the drum a little no dirt on anything apart from the small sponge near the drum which was dirty (built in auto head cleaner) closed the vcr up, all done

Just going to order a high quility svideo cable and start the vhs to mp4 conversion (vcr to camcorder (via svideo) camcorder to pc (via firewire)