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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...
<L>
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.
dl