Outstanding Video! You made me go dig up my 30 some reels of Ampex 478, 3M 809, 996 and try some baking. I also would like to try my Scotch Classic reels as well. I bought the cheap 5 tray digital food dehydrator off Amazon and am having a ball. Not sure how 478 will work out but we shall see...
loads of 478 here, ampex & quantegy. back-coat binding has broken down- not baking it because the carbon is stuck to the oxide surface, so what I've been doing is running the tape back-&-forth through a cotton wool pad soaked in naphtha. tapes I did this way ten years ago have stayed good. takes about seventy minutes to do 2500', in fast wind on a 'utility' deck (an A77) missing out the heads & guides.
I wonder. Has anyone tried building dry storage for their tapes? When I was young I saw in a welding shop, an old refrigerator that was being used to store welding rods. To keep them from absorbing water. Too long ago now to be sure but I think it may have had a larger light bulb set up to be permanently on to heat the fridge. I have wanted to try getting one of the glass doored commercial fridges. That way I could run some sort of dehumidifier scheme inside the fridge. Plus it would make a nice display unit for my tape. Lorne.
Unfortunately sticky shed happens even in low humidity environments, and remember plastic bags are not water vapor barriers; eventually the RH inside the bag will equalize to the RH outside of it.
@@ReeltoReelWarehouse What are your feelings on preemptive baking? I have to go through a large collection here and I'm tired of cleaning tape paths. Wondering if I should just bake everything to start with. Also what do you know from a safety stand point. Does the baking process give off any chemicals that we should be overly concerned with? Lorne.
note i know this sound nuts had to use a gas oven and with a heat watching it was set at low as it would go 55c for 8 hr take all 8 2nch tapes out let them cool down ampex 456 24 hrs later they were 100% all right i have a old a tellinge tapes are bad i have a soundcraft 820 that is not right re moved head block the motor i can fine power them to move the tape round om spool to spool with a light you can see the tape is not come away from the rest of the tape on the spool note 5 years on the tapes are ok i got hold of alot of basf 2 inch note the boxes for the tape are bad so i had to make tape rack to hold them in i stopped using 1/4 tapes gone over to betacam sp liner audio as there's alot of betacam new sealed tapes
Very interesting topic, I had no idea that whale oil was used in the production of recording tape. I use a very similar food dehydrator when I have to bake tapes for someone. The worst part of that task is having to listen to the contents as it gets copied onto another format. Last time I did it I had to sit through two 1800’ reels from an amateur opera club 🥱😴
