There is a common problem that I faced with decades-old representative media-especially VHS- is the mold that develops inside the cassette cartridge. The mysterious white glazing often develops on the black magnetic tape after storing it on the wet lower floors and years for successive years. Settles like this, if the operation of the VCR, can cause a lot of damage to the rare system in an increasingly rare system.
I was told to either throw the tapes away when they are contaminated or open a VCR operation Temporary cleaning process. The last solution is exhausting, risk destroying both VHS and VCR.
For VHS collection enthusiasts, mold mode was a growing concern. This prompted Tony Crawch, from Vhislife.comTo build a special solution to clean VHS tapes.
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“If you really have a moldy tape, there was a template that fly everywhere,” Krauch told me about the current cleaning methods. I finally decided that there should be a better way. So I sat and started knowing the design of what I want myself, to get a tool that made it easy to clean mold from the tapes. “
the VHS mold cleaner It is a fairly simple machine. The three -dimensional printed case contains two spinning, each connected to a engine, as it places the VHS dumps that were removed from the VHS shell. The corresponding tape is linked along a leaflet carrying a cleaning pillow, holding the mold and other unwanted molecules while moving the spindle to each other. The trend key determines the way the spindle moves, and the control handle adjusts the speed of the engines.
The VHS bar was somewhat molded since the 1990s, the front and back, including the re -assembly of the cassette. Efficiency has made a $ 140 purchase, such as symbolic fees, given that I now managed to easily maintain some of the home films that saved them from the basement of my family and put them in a state.
What also draws attention is the ability to tie a vacuum with a cleaner to absorb the mold that falls from the tape. The holes in the machine allow the molecules to fall into the 3D cover, where the vacuum will remove these particles by contacting a large opening in the back of the box. This is an advantage that I have not seen on other ways to clean the old tapes.
Once VHS university community Crouch was discovered with the scene of the tape player, who was immersed in hundreds of requests, and at some point he had 300 people on the waiting list. So far, he has shipped more than 600 units of the device after initially announced for sale in May 2024. Craot says: “Make it at reasonable prices.” “I do it as I feel it is a contribution to the VHS community.”
After many requests from customers, CROCH also started selling 3D spindle to Betamax, VHS-C and 8 mm DV Video DV, And other analog video formatsWhich made the device easier to clean the low budget. The cleaner appeared in Smithsonian libraries and Instagram archives page He made his way to many universities and museums for archive projects.
The VHS cleaning machine comes at a critical point in the life of coordination. Mold is not only a factor, but after about 25 years, VHS decreases in quality due to the separate magnetic molecules from the tape. To date, the mold remover machine has saved some home memories of my own group, and according to Crouch, a group of others saved its customers. Whether it is planning or not, the VHS cleaner has turned the Krauch hobby into a company that serves a specialized society, and has begun to consider the capabilities of the second version.
“At the end of the day, I just want to see many tapes and home memories, whether it is Friday 13th Or your child’s birthday, let’s stay outside the garbage and keep it for years to come. “
