Re: [ARSCLIST] European hubs

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Of course there's always the primitive method we probably all used at one time,
namely putting the pancake on a turntable near the tape deck and carefully
spooling it onto a takeup reel....a moderate controlled fast forward with one
hand holding the supply tape down to prevent spilling and keep tension.

A producer I worked with at the CBC, who'd been a tonmeister in Germany, said
it was considered a rite of passage to salvage a tape whose centre had fallen
out. Which reminds me....if it was a tape I was planning to re-use without
playing or transferring, all I'd do would be knock out the hub and enough
layers of tape to allow me to insert a standard North American hub.

Those European hubs make great bottle openers, don't they?

dl

Jos Van Dyck wrote:

> Depends on the type of tape machine.
> These platters are readily available for Studer, Revox and Telefunken
> machines.
> For other tape machines, some hardware work may be needed (drilling
> holes...).
>
> European studio reels are 300mm (12"), but that may be too wide?
> There are also 10,5" versions (e.g. for Revox).
> Regularly sold on www.ebay.de (German site).
>
> Cheers,
> Jos
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Warren
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Seeing all the recent messages about European and German tape and machines
> has reminded me to ask if anyone sells or has plans for making an adapter
> for the European tape hub (with the curved rectangular center) so the hubs
> can be mounted on a U. S. machine for playback or winding. I have some
> really full 11-inch hubs and find that hand-held winding gets very old very
> fast.
>
> Thanks, Richard