Cleaning VCR heads is a dirty job, and everybody’s had to do it…but not any more. Each technology has its own Achilles Heel; for the VCR, it’s the tiny gap that’s part of recording and playback heads.

So the 9 year old Hitachi F382 is dying and I'm not sure what to do about it. I've got a decent collection of Disney and other childrens movies on VHS and I can't afford to replace them all with DVD's ...