[Dixielandjazz] Tape problem

[Richard Broadie]

Thanks John.  The site you recommended contains much useful information.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dingo" <roadie at btinternet.com>
To: "Gerard Bielderman" <gerardbielderman at freeler.nl>; "DJM List"
<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>; "Dick Broadie" <richard.broadie at gte.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Tape problem


> http://audio-restoration.com/baking.php
>
> Hi Gerard and Dick,
>
> The above link supplies the reasons and hopeful cures to tape squealing. I
> have the complete article on file should you not be able access the
website
> (I haved not checked it lately).
>
> Also on file (from 22/12/99) this piece from former DJML'er the late and
> much missed Ron Halstead.
>
> > Baking only works for polyester tapes.  Diacetate audio tapes from the
> > 50s and early 60s have a totally different problem--Vinegar Syndrome!
> > You can determine what the basefilm is by pulling on the first inch or
> > two of the tape.  If it breaks clean, it is diacetate.  If it stretches,
> it
> > is polyester.  If you smell vinegar, you had better copy it soon.  The
> > acetic acid causes the tape to deteriorate fast.
>
> Hope you both get your tapes 'de-squealed' and do not attempt what a tape
> exchange contact of mine did some years (decades) ago. Receiving a
cassette
> from him I was curious as to the reason for what looked like an oily sheen
> in the little clear window in the cassette. I never played the cassette
and
> was glad I didn't. The oily sheen, he later admitted, was just that
> ........ a light machine oil he'd squirted into the cassette. It may well
> have relubricated the tape but I shudder to think what it would have done
> to the capstan pinch wheel and other parts.
>
> HTH
> ~=~
>  John,
>         Suffolk, England.
>                     ?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerard Bielderman" <gerardbielderman at freeler.nl>
> To: "DJM List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: 23 July 2003 21:41
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Tape problem
>
>
> : Dear listmates,
> : Can anybody advise me what to do with the following problem?
> : I'm putting all my tapes (with broadcasts since the early Sixties) on CD
> but
> : some tapes - after a while - start to squeake like a sick bird (because
> of
> : dryness I suspect) and this awful sound reaches the recording/playing
> head
> : and then is audible through the loudspeakers. When I wet the tape with a
> : cotton bud the sound disappears.... But is almost impossible to do this
> by
> : hand for a complete CD....
> : Does anybody have a better solution? Maybe Bud Taylor?
> : Thanks for any advice!
> :
> : Gerard Bielderman,
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