Re: [ARSCLIST] Applying new backing to old recording tapes for the purposes o...

[Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/3/2005 2:51:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ArcLists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

What I am imagining is a source spool of 1/4" wide by 1200 foot long 
roll of 3M correction tape with a Post-It note like surface - in 
fact, it would be good to be 7/32" wide. Of course, with the tape 
being narrower than this in many spots, we'd need a way of 
de-activating the adhesive where there is no tape.
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If one could get enough 7/32" splicing tape, this might work. Exposed 
adhesive could be deactivated with talcum powder or corn starch, a technique that was 
used to salvage sticky "Scotch Tape" splices in reused tape in the very early 
days. It is hard to imagine the tediousness of this process though.

Another approach to the problem might be to use the sound head of a film 
projector equipped for magnetic sound. In most (at least Kodak), the track is read 
by a movable head while the medium is bent around a rotating drum, flattening 
it and providing a rigid backing. One might also mount a film projector head 
assembly (if you can find one) on a tape deck so it could read the track from 
the tape threaded so that it rapped part way around the pressure roller.

Just a couple of wild ideas!

Mike Csontos