Re: [ARSCLIST] Squealing Scotch 996

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

Gak!

Hi, Conrad,

What do you know about the history of this reel?

If you're not seeing any buildup and it's squealing, you may have:

L O S S    O F   L U B R I C A N T

or LoL

I've been on this bandwagon ever since I found several Sony reels 
that exhibited this.

Our resident Southern Kiwi, Marie O'Connell is a world-class expert 
in dealing with LoL.

IMHO, LoL may become a worse problem than SSS as we go through the 
years. I've seen it more on cassettes than reels, but Marie's 
experience is hundreds of reels of a tape brand that we don't see 
here much in North America (not Zonal, Agfa, or BASF IIRC).

She taught me how to play them wet with isopropyl alcohol. People 
were kind to me at my recent seminar and didn't bring a piece of tape 
doing this evil thing.

Cheers,

Richard

At 05:45 PM 11/8/2005, you wrote:
> I've just encountered a reel of Scotch 996 which is squealing. It does not
> seem to exhibit any symptoms of sticky shed - no buildup on the heads, and I
> was under the impression that 996 did not suffer from stick shed.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> --
> Konrad Strauss
> Director of Recording Arts
> Associate Professor of Music
> Indiana University School of Music
> http://php.indiana.edu/~kstrauss
> http://www.music.indiana.edu/department/audio/

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