Re: [ARSCLIST] Squealing Scotch 996

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe if we brought all our squealy tapes over to MarineLand on a specific day?
(Steve, it was Buck Hoeffler who showed me the nose-grease trick.)

dl

Steven Smolian wrote:

> Now if we could only get the oil from whale's noses....
>
> Stev Smolian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lou Judson" <inaudio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:12 AM
> Subject: 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
>
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