Re: [ARSCLIST] MAGNA-REEL Sound Recording Tape

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Next time I hit a squealy acetate tape, I may try the old "oil from the side of
the nose" trick again. (Or the forehead..got more lubricant there. And it's
natural.)

dl

"Richard L. Hess" wrote:

> David,
>
> Some lubricants work some of the time, but there is no room in the
> matrix for the tape to take them up, so they just hang around on the surface.
>
> Although we''ve been calling the tape squeal "loss of lubricant" it
> isn't as what is assumed to be the original load of lubricant still
> appears in the chemical analysis. It is no longer enough since the
> properties of the binder have degraded.
>
> Relubrication, overall, has a poor track record. Another restorer and
> I had really hoped we could get it to work and we tried some really
> nifty lubricants, with marginal success. The best relubrication
> results have been with isopropyl alcohol as Marie O'Connell wrote
> about and I published at http://www.richardhess.com/notes/ (just
> search for Marie in the dedicated search box and you'll soon find it).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
> At 09:55 PM 9/18/2006, you wrote:
> >Radio Shack used to sell a head lubricant, a couple of decades ago.
> >I found that it
> >worked at the time, although the SSS problems were much smaller and less
> >widespread. Seems to me that it was good on squealy non-backcoated
> >tapes, but I
> >can't remember how often you'd have to apply it or if it would work
> >for an entire
> >reel, especially at slow speed.
>
> Richard L. Hess                   email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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