Re: arsclist dusty tapes

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Michael,

Gently vacuum them outside the archive and see what happens. If it 
mold/fungus be careful.

Should be fine in my opinion.

Listen for any dust-induced HF losses (separation of head-to-tape).

Cheers,

Richard

At 11:23 AM 9/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> 9/6/02
>
> We have some dusty, you could even say somewhat dirty,
> reel-to-reel tape oral history recordings and wish to copy
> them to a digital format.  We have the appropriate equipment
> to do this with "clean" tapes, but we haven't worked with "dirty"
> tapes yet.  Is a consultant / professional essential, or are there
> practical, though less than ideal, measures that we can perform
> ourselves?
>
>
>
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