Arsvita VHS/VCR Head Cleaner Tape, Video Head Cleaning Kit for VHS/VCR Players, Wet Type, ARVC-3

I bought this for my family because we couldn’t watch the tapes. Figured it might have been the very old player. Turned out the player just didn’t work anymore. Tried using it on another player we had but the tape had got stuck inside. Not sure if I misused it. Luckily the tape did not tear! We played our old tapes to watch and it worked, ig we didn’t need it completely. But we have it just in case we ever do.

This thing is extremely cheaply made. The spindles just flop around inside the tape and don't rotate freely. This caused my VCR to repeatedly eject the tape immediately after it was inserted. I tried to rotate the spindles manually and free the tape up. This worked for a few seconds, but eventually my VCR just ate the tape inside. On the plus side, I think the heads did get a little cleaner; I saw some black residue on the tape that was in the shape of the head drum. Nevertheless, I will be returning this cleaner for a refund.

It really worked!

Likely just like you, I have a VHS player that could not properly read tapes. I'm digitizing some tapes that likely haven't been played in decades, and are likely to be very dirty. Low and behold, after the first few tapes, I could not play anything else. No video or audio would come through. TLDR: My heads needed cleaning, shocker. You certainly get what you pay for with this "tape". The reels are loose and feel like there's almost nothing holding them in. My VHS player had a hard time moving it around, and it even gave up a few times (Assuming that it's a safety feature of the player, so that it doesn't rip tapes apart). After a few tries, though, I got it to play, and it did a good job cleaning. Good enough that I now get video and audio again. I did have to manually rewind the tape a bit, though. The reels make this item lose a star, but otherwise it worked as advertised.

Works great thank you

As a whole, the unit works as advertised. It cleaned up my VHS player that I hadn't used in years. I was able to convert VHS to digital on dozens of home movies. The tapes and the unit were so dirty, I ended up buying multiple cleaners to use after every couple of tapes to keep up the quality of these 30+ year old videos. Especially the first couple, the quality of the video was awful, but after using the cleaning tape (which came out almost black from all the neglect), the quality markedly improved. The caveats: These units are very cheaply made. In order to make them work properly I had to push my finger in the bottom where the gears are (the part you would turn to rewind it, if too much comes out) and then make sure they are centered. Seems the tolerances are too big and the sprocket wheel tends to slide to one side and get stuck when inserted. I also had to take the cover off the VCR because every so often, even using the above procedure, the sprockets wouldn't align properly once inserted and the cleaning tape would spew out into the inside of the unit. There isn't that much cleaning tape, so it wasn't a big issue. Just annoying. Make sure the tape isn't wound around anything important, eject the tape, manually rewind, align the sprockets and insert again. All in all, you get what you pay for and for the price, it did what it was supposed to do, as long as you are willing to do some monkeying around.

Excellent thanks 👍

Total chinesium piece of crap. Put it in 2 different vcrs and it literally shut the vcr off and ejected it. Do not buy this. If I could leave a negative star rating it would be -5.

Price Is Excellent & at my door& It Works !

Cheap flimsy piece of garbage. Waste of money. I put this into my good working Sony vcr and ran it. Tried to eject and it wouldn’t come out. I had to pry it out with a screwdriver and found that one of the reels in the cleaner was jambed and the tape got all tangled inside the unit. Had to tear the tape to get it out. You know as soon as you remove this cleaning tape from the package, that its very cheaply made garbage. Spend a few dollars more and get a better one. I’m happy that I didn’t damage the player with this garbage.

Works.

A fait le travail bon résultat

My VCR needed cleaning so I bought this to clean it. Worked perfectly! I can now watch all my VHS tapes again!