[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [ARSCLIST] Hold Down Tape
Tom, where do you find paper leader (I'm looking for 1/4") !? I
thought I'd checked everywhere but maybe not?
What I do is attach a turn of leader and about 10 turns of blank
tape. I've never found any adhesive that doesn't become goo or is so
sticky, it removes or deforms part of the tape when removing it. So
the blank tape is held down by TME hold down tape. When it gets nasty
I just snip off that bit of tape. With that much blank tape after the
white leader, I'd have to be asleep not to stop the tape before it ends.
On Jan 17, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
Take a piece of Scotch tape -- the kind you tape a library tag on a
book. Fold a third of it over so it's a tab. Hold the tape end down
with the 2/3 sticky stuff. Use paper leader tape, a few feet. In
the life of that reel, you will not gum up or tear off enough paper
leader tape to matter.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard L. Hess"
<arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Hold Down Tape
At 02:32 PM 2008-01-17, Richard Warren wrote:
Hi Folks,
The Grinch in me sees this discussion and harks back to research
for the AAA Committee that resulted in our recommending against
the use of any sort of hold-down or splicing tape (except for
temporary use of splicing tape to make or extend leaders that are
too short for a tape player) because of the danger of bleeding
adhesives (and I've never found any type of splicing or hold-down
tape that did not bleed goo onto tape surfaces or that was
peelable without some sort of deposit or damage). I wish my
experience were more helpful, but facts are facts.
From another Grinchly Richard:
--Shipping tapes without hold down is very risky as the outer
wraps may come unwound
--I have received far too many tapes with damage to the outer 20
+ turns due to them becoming unwound. It also appears that loosely
wound wraps of tape are more likely to dry out and cup.
I fear it's a matter of picking your poison. Whatever you do,
please do not use the 3M white plastic hold-down clips--at least
in the mode where they go over the tape pack and often cause edge
damage.
Regards,
Richard (aka Richard d'Grinch II)
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.