Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't those BASF cassettes have those plastic arms inside the shell that fed the tape away from the reels? I seem to recall many years ago that when those tapes of mine were squealing, I removed the arms, and the problem largely went away. 

As for 175 tape, I've yet to come across that problem. Is it possible that it only applied to a certain time period within its production life? 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hirst [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: 175 problems


No, but I recently digitized a batch of BASF LHsuper SM cassettes all of 
which suffered from mechanical squeal. I lifted the tape out to another 
shell and all four of the offending tapes played without problem. These 
tapes were amongst a collocation of just over 100 tapes all of different 
brands, all from roughly the same era, all of which played without problems.

David Lennick wrote:
> Okay..I've just had a reel of 3M 175 turn up with major sticky problems. 
> No splices, tight pack but not unusually so, normal storage conditions. 
> Anyone else running into problems with this tape?
> 
> dl
> 
> 

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