Re: [ARSCLIST] MAGNA-REEL Sound Recording Tape

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> And then there's always the mold that comes with moisture, which I've seen
literally eat away old
> Scotch 111 acetate tape. So here's the typical options for typical old
tapes stored in typical old
> private collection -- keep those tapes in the cold/moist/likely moldy
garage or basement or keep
> those tapes in the hot attic. Basement -- they can get eaten away and/or
warp.  Attic -- they warp
> and might get so brittle that they won't play or get something akin to
lost lubricant.
>
> Yeah, folks, if you have something valuable to you or to posterity on
reels, for heaven's sake
> transfer the darn thing and till your digital garden regularly!
>
That's why I like my half-vast shellac archive...as long as I don't
drop them or let them stay under water for any length of time.
Nothing eats them, and they don't gradually turn back into dead insects...

Steven C. Barr