Re: [ARSCLIST] Squealing Scotch 996

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Radio Shack used to sell a bottle of head lubricant they claimed was for this
purpose. For that matter, a colleague once showed me a trick that actually
worked on sticky shed tapes as well, at least if you needed to play one track
and the tape wasn't totally shot yet. You'd rub a little ('scuse my French,
ladies) sweat off the side of your nose and hold your finger against the tape
as it ran past the heads, and you'd give the head enough lubricant to play a
couple of minutes of the tape.

dl

phillip holmes wrote:

> So there's no "fix" for it?  I'm not proposing Mobil One, but you can't fix
> it like baking sticky shed?
> Phillip
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard L. Hess"
>
> > 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