Never done it. Never come across a sticky tape. Yet. But it's fascinating that you can bake out the moisture and not ruin the tape. I not sure if dehydrating requires heat, I'll have to find out.
LG had this issue with their washer power buttons. Their solution was to replace the console with an updated design. We found the "new" design simply had capacitive paint applied to the inside of the plastic. They sell that paint on Amazon.
Probably a different Roger's. In canada they are one of the big companies in broadcasting, and telecom. They are the largest telecom in canada. Basically three are 3 big broadcasters in canada rogers, bell and corus, and 3 big telecoms. Rigers, Bell and Telus plus a few smaller operations, videotron and Eastlink. Rogers actually started making radios. I have several old rogers majestic tube radios.
This is especially an issue with certain 2 Inch master tapes, and is actually mentioned as happening in the liner notes on Boston’s “Third Stage” (I believe theirs was Scotch 332, but don’t hold me to that).
Is this a long-term repair, or is it just for playing it once, then it disintegrates completely, and you throw it away? Are all old tapes susceptible to absorbing moisture, or there were different formulation for the binder, so some old tapes would fare better? I've heard that the issue was resolved starting in the early 1990s, but you are saying that DV tapes also have sticky shed syndrome? Thanks!
Better than pain in the ass DV tapes that the client didn't look after. When a spot of sticky substance hits the drum running at 9000 RPM it leaves a mess inside and a few minutes of lost footage.
The power supply is not isolated, so putting that screw there wasn't the best idea. It will be referenced to mains to some degree. If that series resistor is in the MOhm range, it's not so big deal, but even then, that 1/4w carbon resistor is not rated for mains safety isolation.
Huh, I'll call that a very good way to fix those stupid capacitive touch buttons. I mean I like the screw. I've seen this problem myself. I can't remember how that ended, maybe in the trash. Not next time though!
I think the term "bake" is bit of a misnomer, since technically baking is done at ⪆ 70℃. Certainly I always wondered how "baking" a tape didn't, at the very least, destroy the magnetic field. However, since the tape is being exposed to elevated temperatures around 2.5 x ambient (assuming ambient is 20℃), I think it would be more accurate to call the process "low temperature heat treatment".
Baking tape is a term that has been around for years. There is no risk to the magnetic information at the temperatures used. Yes too hot will destroy the tape, and higher temperatures increase the chance of print thru from adjacent layers. This is a recovery technique used to get a tape playable to recover what is on it, and once copied the original tape is tossed.
At least it was an easy fix. I had to bake a umatic 60 minute reel of that infamous Ampex 187... with a cardboard box, light bulb, computer fan and multi-meter thermometer. This is what happens when you don't get paid what you are worth; the easy bake oven from hell. So I put the cardboard box in the fire place and watched tv for 3 1/2 hours turning the light bulb on and off with a power strip, holding it at about 140 F and checking it 3 or 4 times to make sure it was baking evenly, and not about to suffer from WAY much heat... and it worked! Not that this was a good idea! 140 F was a bit high but I didn't have 10 hours to sit there turning the light on and off, and it was my tape. After baking I was surprised to see the surface of the tape was now totally immaculate, smelled kind of weird and it ran like that was the first pass ever. Before baking the end of the tape would come to a halt with a loud squeak and wouldn't even un-thread properly. {Of course I'd expect murphy's law to kick in if that was someone else's tape, I don't experiment with client material, nor do I bake tapes since there's a lab-grade oven at work my co-workers are in charge of}
Well here that is on me. Just had a DV tape go thought my DHR1000 that had something spilled on it. Ended up with 2 feet of tape inside the machine and no eject so I had to tear it down and cut the tape out. He lost the first 54 seconds. Too bad so sad.
