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Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation Reformatting Issue: Cassette Tapes Separating from Reels
I do this regularly.
Some cassettes are tak-welded, some are screwed together.
If the yar the former, they have to be forced open, the splice remade.
There is an 1/8" splicing block that Edit-all (sp?) made which I use. The
tape has to be rehoused into a new shell. These are availabale.
It's a nuisance job. There are various tricks and straegies to keep the
tape from unspooling, twisting, etc., and aligning the tape within the shell
so it plays back in the proper path. Part of the operation is keeping the
slipsheets in place so the perform their funcion when the cassette is
reassembled.
The source of the problem is the drying out of the original splicing tape
adhesive. There is tye splice at the opposite end to be considered as well.
They don't alsways come loose when you get to that part but often enough to
consider doing this one as well since you're in the repair mode anyway. It
can get pretty frustrating when you repair and copy one side only to find
it's become unattached at the otehr end.
For those screwed together, the same shell can usually be reused.
If I do theme here, I charge $ 50 per splice- it takes 15' to half an hour
and a good anthogy of my old military vocabulary.
Steve Smolian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hendrickson Paige Ctr AEDC/IIA" <Paige.Hendrickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 4:22 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Preservation Reformatting Issue: Cassette Tapes
Separating from Reels
Greetings ARSC List:
I am currently working on reformatting a collection of audiotapes that
are approximately 20-30 years old, and they have not been kept in a
climate-controlled environment until recently. During this process, on
about 30 of these cassettes the tape has separated from the reel. What
would your recommendation be for the information on the tapes to be
salvaged and then reformatted still? Can the tape be affixed back on
the reels without too much damage, and how would that be accomplished?
I have consulted several books on preservation and many websites, but
none of them address this particular problem.
Thank you in advance for your assistance, Paige
A. Paige Hendrickson, MSIS
Archivist
AEDC Archives
430 Second Street
Arnold AFB, TN 37389-4200
Phone: 931-454-3632
Fax: 931-454-7161
DSN: 340-3632
paige.hendrickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx