[ARSCLIST] Acetate tape discolours tape box

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Subject: [ARSCLIST] Acetate tape discolours tape box
From: "Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:50:13 -0400
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Here is the best example I've seen that acetate tape's outgassing is absorbed by the cardboard box. Presumably the brown areas of the box are more acidic than the white areas, but I'm not really able to test that.

See: http://richardhess.com/notes/2006/10/16/acetate-tape-buffered-by-cardboard-box/

Richard L. Hess email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.

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