Recent content by rwcass75

No, unfortunately I didn't. I watched a YouTube video on cleaning the heads, though, and cleaned the audio head myself after taking the top off the machine. I've heard from several people since September, including a VCR repairman, that head-cleaner tapes are unreliable and may actually damage...

Yes, it's rewound. But the Toshiba unit shuts down each time right after the tape is inserted, so pressing "rewind" or even "play" is impossible.

As soon as the head cleaner is inserted in the VCR, the unit shuts down. I've also noticed recently that a few of my VHS tapes from 1989-'90 have garbled audio for the first 30 minutes or so even though the picture is fine, which is why I figured I should clean the heads. The head cleaner has...