Re: [ARSCLIST] Squealing Scotch 996

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This gives new meaning to the phrase "nose to the grindstone". So would diet be
a variant? Would different results be obtained in Japan? France? Mexico?

(Getting into dangerous territory here, podner....)

dl

Lou Judson wrote:

> 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