Today's WASHINGTON POST has an article on 2-inch quad deterioration  and 
the efforts underway at LoC to do stabilization and restoration.   Jim 
Lindner, Mike Mashon and other are quoted.  
 
Alan Lewis
Washington, DC 
 
 
In a message dated 7/16/2013 2:39:55 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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At some  point in the future the archive I work for may have to deal with 
hundreds,  perhaps thousands, of helical audio recordings made in Alaska 
using  Soundscriber SS-124s (helical recorders which capable of recording 
24  hours on a 2 inch tape medium). When we conducted a brief and spotty  
inspection a couple of years ago of the tapes, recorded in the early  
1960s, now stored a warehouse without climate controls, we found that  
many of the tapes showed signs of de-lamination; the oxide coating is  
flaking off of the base of many tapes. I'm trying to get ahead of the  
curve and was wondering if anybody here could point me to literature, or  
offer advice, on consolidating magentic audio tape oxide  coatings?

Thanks in advance.

--greg schmitz


--  
Greg Schmitz
Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association  (AMIPA)
Anchorage, Alaska
greg /at/ amipa.org

The Alaska Moving  Image Preservation Association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit 
dedicated to media  preservation and education to ensure long-term access 
to Alaska’s moving image  heritage.