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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: 3480 tapes vs. humidity
Message-ID: <1143@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 90 04:28:56 GMT
References: <11818@celit.fps.com>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <11818@celit.fps.com> hutch@fps.com (Jim Hutchison) writes:
>We've recently had some interesting experiences with 3480 tape cartridges
>which have experienced high humidity.  It appears that after running for a
>while, they heat up and glue themselve to the tape head.

Yup - that's a classic case of excess humidity.  I spent from 1954 to 1983
working with tape on a daily basis in radio, tv, and finally running a pair
of 24 track audio studios.  There is a good explanation of the problem in
this month's issue of audio magazine.  There is a cure, which involves
baking at low temperature (not over 120 degrees) to drive the moisture out.
Get the magazine, and you will see.  It covers audio, but in regards to
this tape is tape is tape.


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