Re: [ARSCLIST] Damaged Tapes

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:42 PM 2007-12-04, Mew, Peter wrote:

> All the titles have been leadered with plain white plastic leader
> The Tape has never been baked
> When I spooled the first reel back to the start, to play, I found that
> on 3 of the titles the oxide had adhered to the leader, having been
> stripped off the tape backing. Thus rendering the first 3 or 4 seconds
> unuseable.

Did I say I hated plastic leader? ? ? ? ? I've never seen paper do 
this, despite its theoretical limitations. Sorry.

As to the problem, I've written Mr. Mew off-list, but there is not 
much definitive to say that's worth repeating to everyone until there 
is a repeatable success.

The goal would be to break the undesired bonds (the one from oxide to 
underlying leader) without breaking the desired bonds (oxide to 
original basefilm). It's akin to peeling sticky labels off things.

Cheers,

Richard

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