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Re: [ARSCLIST] Squealing Scotch 996
OK, this is opening it wide open for double entendre, but what about KY
Jelly? Isn't that water-soluable, so thus might be less likely to leave any
permanent damage to the tape? Not a chemist and don't play one on TV!
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Squealing Scotch 996
> 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