Re: [ARSCLIST] old acetate tapes - curling/tape tension remedies?

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Fine wrote:

> Hi Dave/Richard:
>
> Less strenuous is to see about playing a full-track tape with a 2-track
> machine and seeing if one track is usable. My experience -- and I think
> Richard mentioned this to me once as a perfectly legit method -- is that
> warped/crinkled full-track tapes will not track the gap on a full-track head
> but will sometimes on one of the two tracks.

An amendment..try a quarter-track machine. The "right channel" will probably
give the best reproduction since it's closer to the center of the tape and away
from the wavy edges.

dl
> At 11:37 AM 10/6/2005, dave n wrote:

> > >Hello all -
> > >
> > >I'm looking for information about how anyone here on the arsc-list
> > >has handled and transferred old acetate tapes that have begun to curl?
> > >