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Re: [ARSCLIST] Squealing Scotch 996



Nose grease is (or was) also the best lube for Revox A700 brakes - once a month and they never squealed. It's not sweat or "perspiration" or "glow" but skin oil. Human skin. Rumor has it that the stopping of whale oil was the reason for all the tape problems from the late 70s on...


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Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Nov 8, 2005, at 5:32 PM, David Lennick wrote:

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.


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