what do you use to clean VCRs ?
Rodrigo F. Dib
I personally use acetone. I know that it can dissolve the glue in the
video heads, or so i was told by an instructor ..... But .... i use such
a small quantity that .... besides i was taught this by an old pro in
the business.
I've tried alcohol but it takes for ever to dry compared to acetone. I
was wondering what you guys use ?
Has anyone used nail polish remover ? It is basically acetone with some
nice smells in it.
Thanks
TheCentralSc...@pobox.com
>Hi all....
>
>I personally use acetone. I know that it can dissolve the glue in the
>video heads, or so i was told by an instructor ..... But .... i use such
>a small quantity that .... besides i was taught this by an old pro in
>the business.
>I've tried alcohol but it takes for ever to dry compared to acetone. I
10 seconds is forever? wild!
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camcorders and VCR's I get have already had a head cleaner attempt. I use
BLUE Windex on a chamois stick (NEVER,NEVER do I use a cotton swab), I then
use Hexane S-721H to clean the heads, with a chamois stick (a clean one).
Then I put a tape jig in the unit and play for about 10 min. Then I check
the unit out with a tape.
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Sid Ashen-Brenner
>
> Hi all....
>
> I personally use acetone. I know that it can dissolve the glue in the
> video heads, or so i was told by an instructor ..... But .... i use such
> a small quantity that .... besides i was taught this by an old pro in
> the business.
> I've tried alcohol but it takes for ever to dry compared to acetone. I
> Has anyone used nail polish remover ? It is basically acetone with some
> nice smells in it.
Unfortunately, those "nice smells" are Oil based, and typically leave a
residue on the heads ... usually worse video afterwards than before they
were cleaned!
I'll stick to the Alcohol and a can of compressed air.
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handy
wrote:
>Hi all....
>
>I personally use acetone. I know that it can dissolve the glue in the
>video heads, or so i was told by an instructor ..... But .... i use such
>a small quantity that .... besides i was taught this by an old pro in
>the business.
>I've tried alcohol but it takes for ever to dry compared to acetone. I
>was wondering what you guys use ?
Alcohol? What type?
I now use denatured alcohol. The stuff is cheap, easy to get, does a
great job on the vcr and your skin
Charles E.
little Pledge sprayed onto a Q tip and after I am finished I clean off the
pledge with alcohol or acetone. Pledge is used as a last resort.
I have cleaned many a head that was thought to be bad with pledge.
Rodrigo F. Dib
> My personal preference is alcohol. Yes, it may take longer to dry but
> it doesn't dissolve adhesives and plastic or your lungs or kidneys.
>
I agree that acetone is pretty dangerous, specially around plastics (i'll
tell you in about 10 years about my lungs and kidneys :-) ) But the first
time i used alcohol i didn't let it dry long enough and i ended up with
like 1/5 of the tape around the DRUM because it sticked to it. Then , i
tried again on another VCR and the darn thing did not get cleaned. I
thought i had bad heads so i tried acetone and boom ! First try worked. I
decided to give up alcohol then.
Later
Rodrigo F. Dib
Hmmmm....... what is a "pledge" ?
Rodrigo F. Dib
> Rodrigo F. Dib wrote:
> >
> > Hi all....
> >
> > I personally use acetone. I know that it can dissolve the glue in the
> > video heads, or so i was told by an instructor ..... But .... i use such
> > a small quantity that .... besides i was taught this by an old pro in
> > the business.
> > I've tried alcohol but it takes for ever to dry compared to acetone. I
> > was wondering what you guys use ?
> > Has anyone used nail polish remover ? It is basically acetone with some
> > nice smells in it.
>
> Unfortunately, those "nice smells" are Oil based, and typically leave a
> residue on the heads ... usually worse video afterwards than before they
> were cleaned!
> I'll stick to the Alcohol and a can of compressed air.
I've used nail polish remover in probably no more than 5 "emergency"
situations and it worked fine.
Rodrigo F. Dib
Hexane S-721H ? this is the first time i hear about this stuff. Where do you
buy it ?
thanks
PetScii
>> I have cleaned many a head that was thought to be bad with pledge.
>
> Hmmmm....... what is a "pledge" ?
>
You know, a pledge is a person who is trying to get into a fraternity.
hehehe ... actually, Pledge is the brand name for a spray-type furniture
polish.
--Rick
Dave Moore
>Rodrigo F. Dib wrote in message <35CB4127...@jps.net>...
>thought i had bad heads so i tried acetone and boom ! First try worked. I
>decided to give up alcohol then.
I have found that alcohol works better on some
contaminents, and acetone and toluene work better
on others.
=^^= DM
Dave Moore
and not the outer case?
I usually start with toluene and if that doesn't work
I use alcohol. It seems that these two solvents seem to
work better on different types of contaminants so by using
both I got it covered.
Sometimes I use Pyroil Carb cleaner from autozone which
has ,,,,,you guessed it,,,,,toluene and alcohol in it !!!
Just one note of caution,,,,,whenever using toluene always
use it in small bottles,,,,it's very flammable also one should
take precautions
not to inadvertantly spray any on one's kidneys. (~:
Also I have a big fan in the window to suck solder fumes
and solvent gases away from my lungs,,,,,this too would
be advisable
VPR
but you can still find its chemical equivelants.......alot of dry cleaners
use this stuff. was available at most electronic supply depots a few years
back.
for tough cloggs, or on the fly, ive used business cards against the heads
as they spin......with or without chemicals.
Have been doing this for the past 10 years. Used this in a college i tought
once, and blew everyones mind. and yes you must be carefull not break the
video heads. does a good job on polishing the upper cylinder as
well........
At Panasonic Industrial, we used cleaning tape, not the dry kind of cleaning
tape, or the others that are popular, this tape was in a cassette, and one
of them was grey and the other was green. at close look of the tape, it had
a very fine grit to it. These are excellent to use in VCR's allthough what
we did was break open the cassete, and use the spool. We cut-off pieces we
needed and used them to clean the heads.....Need to be carefull though and
use sparingly, as these would definately wear down heads quick.
Rodrigo F. Dib wrote:
> Hi all....
>
> I personally use acetone. I know that it can dissolve the glue in the
> video heads, or so i was told by an instructor ..... But .... i use such
> a small quantity that .... besides i was taught this by an old pro in
> the business.
> I've tried alcohol but it takes for ever to dry compared to acetone. I
> was wondering what you guys use ?
> Has anyone used nail polish remover ? It is basically acetone with some
> nice smells in it.
>
> Thanks
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schreibt:
>I've used nail polish remover in probably no more than 5 "emergency"
>situations and it worked fine.
Thatæ„€ stupid, isnæ„’ it ??
Go to a shop an let such things do by an expert !!! (like me)
But if you know what you are doing inside a video and how much a Drum costs...
Alcohol ISOPROPANOL ,at best 100 % and a peace of white paper.
Turn the Drum >against the clock< and hold the paper vertical to the DRUM (so
you donæ„’ damage the Heads)
AND itæ„€ sooo fast dry !!!
Hey, what kind of people are writing to this group ??
are there also experts?
Wolfgang
Dave Moore
cleaning the sticky gunk left behind by scotch or
electrical tape off of cabinets or cables.
I've got a can of naptha just for those purposes
but I've never tried it on heads or belts. Toluene
also cleans and resurfaces rubber rather well.
I use it in a pinch if I run out of Re-grip.
=^^= DM
Lionel Wagner wrote in message <6qk9bn$r...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>...
>My favorite is lighter fluid (white naphta) available in bulk, as camp
stove
>fuel. It is stronger than alcohol, yet completely safe on plastics.
>Mildly aggressive to rubber, it cleans and re-surfaces at the same time.
>For stubborn cases, on METAL, acetone is the best.
Lionel Wagner
fuel. It is stronger than alcohol, yet completely safe on plastics.
Mildly aggressive to rubber, it cleans and re-surfaces at the same time.
For stubborn cases, on METAL, acetone is the best.
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>
> >Rodrigo F. Dib wrote in message <35CB4127...@jps.net>...
> >thought i had bad heads so i tried acetone and boom ! First try worked. I
> >decided to give up alcohol then.
>
> I have found that alcohol works better on some
> contaminents, and acetone and toluene work better
> on others.
How about clear ammonia? I use alcohol for the most part but there is
times it is filmy looking after cleaning with alcohol. When it is that
way, I use a mixture of 6 parts clear ammonia and 1 part alcohol.
Apply then rub it dry. This takes more time but the drum and metal
posts sure look shiny! Gets that nicotine off the plastic rollers too.
Some times I use straight ammonia on the video heads when alcohol
won't get it clean. I put some on one side of chamois stick and hold
it against the head for a few moments, then gently scrub it. I turn
the stick around and use the other side to dry it. I usually follow up
with alcohol to get any residual ammonia off of it.
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Charles E. > wrote in message <6qkuqm$p0l$1...@oak.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
>Pledge is Furniture polish spray, You spray on a Q tip and afterwards
>clean it all off with alcohol or acetone. I also use it on real dirty
>capstans , it works really good.
>
>
Tom MacIntyre
>I don't even want to hear about Q-TIPS !!!!!
Haven't heard a word about emery cloth or sandblasters yet either!!
Tom
Sam Goldwasser
PetScii
>Haven't heard a word about emery cloth or sandblasters yet either!!
>
>
hehehe ... just make sure you pull those chips off the bottom of the silver
spinny thing!!! They can tear a video tape to shreds!
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A *JOKE* -- IF YOU DO THIS, IT WILL _PERMANENTLY_ SCREW UP
YOUR VCR, AND I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE!
Sam Goldwasser
Don't laugh - I was contacted by someone who actually did that before reading
the FAQs!
http://www.repairfaq.org/REPAIR/F_vcrfaq9.html#VCRFAQ_012
Clifton T. Sharp Jr.
> I don't even want to hear about Q-TIPS !!!!!
Everyone knows cotton balls can hold more cleaning solution. :-)
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>
> WD-40 and a TIME-LIFE book.
Tried that. The book absorbs the WD-40 nicely, but won't fit between the
guide posts and the heads.
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95% of what we work on is camcorders. Early this morning I checked and out
we had changed 19 8 mm video heads in camcorders over the last 8 months.
17 of the video heads had pieces of cotton caught in the heads and head
gaps. Use of Q-Tips for head cleaning makes me money. Not as much as we
make, because people use/mis-use "head cleaners". Tape guide replacement in
8 mm camcorders is BOOMING because of "head-cleaners".
Rex
Video Services
Clifton T. Sharp Jr. wrote in message <35CF5B...@spambusters.ml.org>...
>Video Services wrote:
>> I don't even want to hear about Q-TIPS !!!!!
>
>Everyone knows cotton balls can hold more cleaning solution. :-)
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than others. I got a good batch from a medical supply house, with
wood stems. Otherwise, I shop around until I find some that are tightly
wound; I then cut the wimpy hollow plastic stems in half and insert a
steel pin (flattened out large paper clip). The result is a first class
cheap cleaning instrument.
cause&effect
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video drum on a personal unit when I tried this dodo. It apparently has some
other stuff in it which makes the surface of the drum tacky. I used to use
acetone when I repaired VCRs, and never had a problem.
Mark Zenier
Dave Moore <pen...@datastar.net> wrote:
>IMA that naptha AKA benzene is also useful for
> cleaning the sticky gunk left behind by scotch or
> electrical tape off of cabinets or cables.
> I've got a can of naptha just for those purposes
>but I've never tried it on heads or belts. Toluene
>also cleans and resurfaces rubber rather well.
>I use it in a pinch if I run out of Re-grip.
For sticky gunk, that solvent from citrus peel (xylene?) sold as
Citri-Solv or Goo Gone works well and is nowhere near as nasty as
real benzene. Remembering magazine articles on it, it was developed
as a replacment for freon for PC board washing in electronics assembly,
but it seems they did a better job selling it as a home cleaning product.
Mark Zenier mze...@eskimo.com mze...@netcom.com Washington State resident
Raymond Carlsen
pencil eraser, and for the upper and lower drums, I use a Q-tip and a
solvent called Chloro-clean (a GC product). No, I don't inhale. ;-) The
pencil eraser "trick" came from a Sony Rep in the Beta days of the late
'70s. It will scour even the toughest clog and provides just enough "give"
to keep it from damaging the head chip (which I've never done). If the head
or tape path is contaminated by sugar (soda pop), rubbing alcohol does the
initial cleanup for the tape path, then a follow up with solvent.
Ray Carlsen
CARLSEN ELECTRONICS... a leader in trailing-edge technology.
Dave Moore
water marks (usually very faint) on the cabinets of VCR's
and TV's. I'll usually do a whole side to even it out.
If anyone wants to use Naptha for cleaning scotch tape
sticky gunk then they should experiment with it before
tackling anything too critical.
I'll have to try the Citri-solv and some of the "like"
products.
=^^= DM
Mark Zenier wrote in message ...
Doug Weber
finishing polish also puts a nice finish on painted surfaces. When I clean
a vcr, I usually finish by taking the front off and cleaning behind the
display shield to give the vcr a bright clean look. Novus helps put a nice
shine back on the plastic. For cleaning the cabinets, I have been using a
concentrated liquid called Multi-klean from Texas Refinery Corp.
Ingredients include, in order of quantity per volume:
Water, Triethanolamine, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Coconut amide (smell), and
?the active ingriedient? Dodecyl Benzene Sulfonic Acid.
I am not sure of the dangers of this combination of ingredients, but it
certainly doesn't smell like benzene. This 'Citri-solv' is new to me
though. Where is it available?
Doug
Dave Moore wrote in message <6r3ap6$ft5$1...@news1-alterdial.uu.net>...
Asimov
Re: what do you use to clean VCRs ? (14 Aug 98 03:42:04)
pe> Yes I must concur that Naptha (benzene) can leave
pe> water marks (usually very faint) on the cabinets of VCR's
pe> and TV's. I'll usually do a whole side to even it out.
pe> If anyone wants to use Naptha for cleaning scotch tape
pe> sticky gunk then they should experiment with it before
pe> tackling anything too critical.
pe> I'll have to try the Citri-solv and some of the "like"
pe> products.
pe> =^^= DM
pe> Mark Zenier wrote in message ...
>For sticky gunk, that solvent from citrus peel (xylene?) sold as
>Citri-Solv or Goo Gone works well and is nowhere near as nasty as
>real benzene
Gooey glue gunk, I heard said, comes off with mayo... never tried it
except in a sandwich of course <g>.
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Mark Zenier
>>Mark Zenier wrote in message ...
>>>For sticky gunk, that solvent from citrus peel (xylene?) sold as
>>>Citri-Solv or Goo Gone works well and is nowhere near as nasty as
>>>real benzene
>I am not sure of the dangers of this combination of ingredients, but it
>certainly doesn't smell like benzene. This 'Citri-solv' is new to me
>though. Where is it available?
What I've actually used is Goo Gone, which I think is the same stuff.
GC does have an aerosol product "GC Natural Citrus Cleaner", but who
knows what the markup is on that. Likewise Tech Spray has a "Label and
Adhesive Remover" in the their line. But the liquid stuff is sold by
the pint or quart and it's bound to be cheaper.
I thought I've seen Citri-solv in some of the mail order electronics
tool catalogs, but I couldn't find it. I've seen it in catalogs as
diverse as Real Goods Trading (solar power and hippy dippy stuff)
and Vermont Country Store. And maybe at the local hardware store.
Goo Gone is just about everywhere, True Value, K-Mart, etc.
Mark E. Nikl
MacIntyre) wrote:
>"Video Services" <bop...@prysm.net> wrote:
>
>>I don't even want to hear about Q-TIPS !!!!!
>
>Haven't heard a word about emery cloth or sandblasters yet either!!
>
>Tom
>
>
Hey, don't laugh Tom. When I worked for a tv shop long ago, before I
started my own shop, the company also had rent-to -own. One of the
store's employees tried to clean a head with emery cloth. What a mess,
and a ruined Head, an I mean his own head, not the video. he he
Mark
M&N Electronics
Jake
else the work Great. Especially like the Chemtronic ones...
Lionel Wagner <ck...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in article
<6qo33m$7...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>...
>
> "Video Services" (bop...@prysm.net) writes:
> > I don't even want to hear about Q-TIPS !!!!!
> >
Rudolf Ladyzhenskii
Jake wrote in message <01bdcff5$323c6d40$0f5a...@albrecht.lisco.net>...
>I would be a little nervous about using Q-tips on Video Heads. Anywhere
>else the work Great. Especially like the Chemtronic ones...
>
One of my clients used Q-tip on video head of his VCR. He was also thinking
that if head rotates at the same time it will clean better...
Well... new head cost about $95.
Rudolf
Michael Salem
> I would be a little nervous about using Q-tips on Video Heads.
Head cleaning is discussed at length in the FAQ. Q-tips deprecated,
chamois leather recommended (real chamois, not cheap imitation).
Chamois leather is used for cleaning cars.
HTH,
--
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WAYNE
video heads. Use a chamois leather and isopropyl alcohol.
wa...@campion-w-sale.demon.co.uk
In article <01bdcff5$323c6d40$0f5a...@albrecht.lisco.net>, Jake
<albr...@se-iowa.net> writes
>I would be a little nervous about using Q-tips on Video Heads. Anywhere
>else the work Great. Especially like the Chemtronic ones...
>
>Lionel Wagner <ck...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in article
><6qo33m$7...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>...
>>
>> "Video Services" (bop...@prysm.net) writes:
>> > I don't even want to hear about Q-TIPS !!!!!
>> >
>> Seriously, I use cotton tips to clean everything. Some are better made
>> than others. I got a good batch from a medical supply house, with
>> wood stems. Otherwise, I shop around until I find some that are tightly
>> wound; I then cut the wimpy hollow plastic stems in half and insert a
>> steel pin (flattened out large paper clip). The result is a first class
>> cheap cleaning instrument.
>>
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>> { "The more I hear about other people's troubles, }
>> { ... the better I feel about my own". }
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> Cotton buds are great for cleaning the tape path but a little iffy on
> video heads. Use a chamois leather and isopropyl alcohol.
Just a little iffy? :-)
WAYNE
Well quite a lot iffy actually, but its not nice to tell someone that
they are being a touch silly. Although if I had the pig in me I could
well advise the use of sandpaper or maybe an industrial angle grinder!!.
In article <SAM.98Au...@colossus.stdavids.picker.com>, Sam
Goldwasser <s...@stdavids.picker.com> writes
>In article <8KKQ0SAF...@CAMPION-W-SALE.demon.co.uk> WAYNE <WAYNE@CAMPION-W-
>SALE.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Cotton buds are great for cleaning the tape path but a little iffy on
>> video heads. Use a chamois leather and isopropyl alcohol.
>
>Just a little iffy? :-)
>
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<WA...@CAMPION-W-SALE.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I use real chamois on the heads. While it doesn't always get all the dirt
off, I've found a trick that works ( if necessary); get the VCR into a
mode that makes the drum spin, and then apply the chamois. I know that
it's risky to apply anything to the heads while they're spinning, but if
careful hand cleaning doesn't do it, then you either have excessive dirt
or bad heads, so if you damage the ehads, no loss, right? Incidentally, I
have never damaged the heads this way.
KenyD
typerwriter paper. (the tight bond won't leave strands like cotton) Chamois
works well too, but not on a stick, the glue comes off and causes problems.
Ken
Servi
Johnson) wrote:
>I use real chamois on the heads. While it doesn't always get all the dirt
>off, I've found a trick that works ( if necessary); get the VCR into a
>mode that makes the drum spin, and then apply the chamois. I know that
>it's risky to apply anything to the heads while they're spinning, but if
>careful hand cleaning doesn't do it, then you either have excessive dirt
>or bad heads, so if you damage the ehads, no loss, right? Incidentally, I
>have never damaged the heads this way.
Well, an European will try to sneak in here > :-))
If I cant get all the dirt off I usually do the same, just put a tape
in, and PLAY.
Then I take some paper, yes, thin white paper (from my printer), fold
it a couple of times until I have a small "pin" of paper, thenholds it
on to the lower part of the spinning disc until picture clears up.
I have used this for many years, and never damaged a head AFAIR.
(sorry for imperfect spelling/grammatics, I`m Danish)
Servi
Andy Cuffe
manufacturers recommend and it won't damage anything in the VCR.
For normal cleaning of heads I use isopropyl and Rawn aero 2000 super
wash (Dichlorofluoroethane); it's just a general cleaner/degreaser. For
rubber parts I use isopropyl ONLY. It gets tons of black and brown
stuff off drums that appear clean and I have never damaged a head.
It doesn't really matter what you use on the drum as long as it won't
catch on the head tips.
--
Andy Cuffe
balt...@psu.edu
WItam40231
Witam
Lionel Wagner
WItam40231 (witam...@aol.com) writes:
> Use a business card saturated with alcohol.Safer than a chamois swab.
> Witam
YES! Also excellent for cleaning relay contacts.
Kevin Wood
Servi wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:30:29 -0500, drjo...@portup.com (Doug
> Johnson) wrote:
>
> >I use real chamois on the heads. While it doesn't always get all the dirt
We run a very busy shop (5 techs) tried chamois swabs and other stuff, but find
that paper coffee filters we get at the local grocery store work best! no lint,
slightly abrasive, low cost. try it and let me know what you think.
Kevin
Pyxis Technical Services
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Mzacharias
about to give up on a video head in a $500,000 professional Ampex digital
ACR/editing bay. As a last resort, he tried the coffee filter I had told him
about. He's been a believer ever since.
Mark Z.
Wichita, KS.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
> that paper coffee filters we get at the local grocery store work best! no lint,
> slightly abrasive, low cost. try it and let me know what you think.
>
Do you use them dry ?
-Jens Peter
jpj(at)INFOCOM(dot)dk
Clifton T. Sharp Jr.
> WItam40231 (witam...@aol.com) writes:
> > Use a business card saturated with alcohol.Safer than a chamois swab.
> > Witam
>
> YES! Also excellent for cleaning relay contacts.
Even better than a business card: matchbook cover.
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should be used to clean the heads, both audio and video. DO NOT use anything
but rubber cleaner on the pinch roller and follow with a rubber rejuvinator.
The practice of using an emory board is common on the pinch roller when it
becomes glazed and does not properly feed the tape..The most commonly used
material for head cleaning in our field is chamios cut into 1 inch
squares...Q-tips are not recommended as they may leave fibers behind to clog
the head gaps. I do not suggest using anything but denatured alcohol to clean
the heads and tape path...most other things will leave a residue and seriously
impede the performance and life span of your video recorder.
Bears don't like that.
Brruss
Brruss
alcohol? If you keep them wet for 5-10 mins the denatured alcohol will desolve
the particulate build-up in the gaps and then follow with a good chamois
cleaning. Works EVERY time and it is abrasive free, unlike the other
suggestions that will scratch the heads.
Sam Goldwasser
> NEVER use isopropyl alcohol...leaves a residue!!!
> Bears don't like that.
Hoh? Isopropyl alcohol is a pure substance and evaporates to nothing :-).
Some rubbing alcohols contain additives and should be avoided but the basic
91 percent medicinal is fine and even 70 % if no additives won't hurt anything
as long as it dries quickly (don't overdo it!).