Saving VHS lives, one cleaner at a time

I met ‘VHSforLife’ here in online forum land. Local vhs nerds are not plentiful, so I do like most do, find comfort of companionship for a hobby I’ve enjoyed for years, online. Tony was hosting an auction, live streaming, in a category that was common for selling media. After emptying my wallet, one stream after another, we started talking bit, and eventually joined a Discord. He had discussions about this wondrous cleaning device that would eliminate the age old vcr method that you commonly found on YouTube. After update after update and trial and error, I was finally able to get my hands on one! The waiting list was piling up shortly after. I was cleaning dozens of tapes, week and week, using his mold buster. The time was fractional, the functionality was far superior, and how thorough was it? Ten fold better than the vcr method. Tony had found the pulse on what people were needing, but not exactly knowing how to bring it to design. Tony and I would text, weekly, sometimes daily, brainstorming and going over details. Don’t get me wrong, I had nothing but opinions and testimonials to him, about what I was doing and what I was seeing. This concept, from birth, to what it is now, is all him. Once the second version came out, I grabbed another, and then, a third. I was knocking out tapes left and right! Very little mess, easy to transition from dirty pec pads to clean ones, in a matter of seconds. The days of inserting a tape, banding qtips together, ejecting, sometimes snapping tapes because of tension, all gone with the creation of one simple, but at the same time brilliant, design. I’ve brought hundreds of tapes to life with this brainchild of Tony’s. The emails and texts have echoed nothing short of satisfaction. He is my go-to for cleaning conversation and just an all around great guy. Sometimes we just text about the weather. The VHS collecting community couldn’t have received a better ambassador and product to help rejuvenate and reinvent this once archaic culture. Cheers to my friend Tony and long live the Mold Buster!!