Hi, I've recently been scouring these forums and have come accross alot of useful information, if anybody is able and willing to help me out with this technical problem, I will pray to the god of DV for you...

I've owned a VX2000 for a while now and didn't have a problem with it the first 6 months or so. Then I started having audio dropouts at random points throughout playback. The problem started happening when I switched tape brands (A big NO NO, I now know) and have since ran a cleaning tape a few times, at 10 seconds each time, but the audio dropouts have persisted. I'm pretty sure that a tape-pathway cleaning is required at this point, but the cleaning kit has been discontinued. Can anyone illustrate a way to conduct the same kind of cleaning without the cleaning kit?

Thanks for all your help and advice,
Adam