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Subject: Re: cassette tape SCREECH
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 15:44:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 15:44:10 1986
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Organization: Computer Vision Lab, U. of Maryland, College Park
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Summary: My Nak does it too - but I think it's the tape.


	I have one tape that screeches something awful - It's a
TDK SA90 about 2 years old.  My deck is a Nakamichi BX300 (Dual
capstan).  The tape makes a continuous screeching sound from the
mechanism itself (not  from the the speakers).  It doesn't make
noise in my cheap pioneer single capstan machine.  Also, I took
the tape out of it's original housing and exchanged it with a
quiet tape.  The noise followed the tape itself and the quiet
tape remained quiet even in the originally noisy housing.  My
suspicion is that the tape picked up some sort of contamination
which causes it to slip in one of the capstans.  Has anyone else
noticed this phenomenon?  (I now use Maxell tapes :-))
-- 
Alan Cheilek
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