Greetings, engineers. A year has passed since I bought my VCR and lo, as the warranty expires, the problem starts - the same problem that caused me to ditch our last VCR - crap recordings that sound awful and seemingly can't track properly. I'm told it is probably a bit of dirt on the ACE assembly. Not sure what that is, but apparently cleaning it involves little more than a cotton bud and some meths. Can any enlightened one tell me what the ACE assembly looks like (it's a Toshiba VCR, but my guess is an ACE is an ACE), and how to clean it successfully without a) destroying the machine and b) killing myself with an electrical discharge. Thanks...