JRF would certainly be able to recreate the coils and the ferrite mounting
of the heads. Quad video heads are mounted (four of them) on a rotating
headwheel assembly running on a floating air bearing. Renovating those
headwheels involves specialized jigs and precision machine tooling that
would be probably within JRF's capabilities, but non-trivial (and probably
non-economic) to re-create from scratch.
Steve Greene
Audiovisual Archivist
Office of Presidential Libraries
National Archives and Records Administration
(301) 837-1772
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Roderic G Stephens
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> "Subject: [ARSCLIST] CBS News on LOC efforts to pres
> Tom Fine wrote:
>
> "Subject: [ARSCLIST] CBS News on LOC efforts to preserve video history
>
>
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57596237/library-of-congress-races-to-preserve-tv-history/
>
> Question about one "fact" stated in the story, by an LOC employee -- there
> is really only one guy who works on the heads for Ampex 1" machines, and
> he's in his 80s?
> -- Tom Fine"
>
>
> ________________________________
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>
> My take on this is that perhaps the "one guy" should be working with
> someone that has the technical expertise to learn the ins and outs of the
> Ampex 2" quad VTR plus, isn't a company like JRF Magnetic Services able to
> recondition VTR quad heads?
>
>
> http://www.jrfmagnetics.com/index.html?JRF_mainframe=/JRF_replacement_heads.html
>
> Or, this site lists a number of companies that still do 2" quad work:
>
> http://www.labguysworld.com/VTR_Links.htm
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