Hi, Shai, and all,

I have the D5 working better now. If it keeps up, I'll just continue 
doing this. The two reels that prompted the message seemed to be 
outliers as I got back into it.

I have covered a spare tach idler wheel from an A80 in Pellon and placed 
it at the top left of the deck plate (a convenient screw hole there) and 
then soak the Pellon with about 3 ml of D5 per tape. I remove the outer 
wrap every tape or two (depending on how dark it is).

Have gotten through three tapes that way since the bad two.

I've decided to protect my hand when using this much D5 if I am going to 
come into contact with it.

There has been good support on and off list about baking this tape.

Thanks again!

Cheers,

Richard



On 2013-11-10 8:44 PM, Shai Drori wrote:
> Hi Richard
> I have had about 14 reels (maybe a bit more) and all were baked. This
> tape is by far worse than the 456 or the 480. I gave these a very long
> bake at about 55-60 degrees and that held for about two weeks. Piece of
> @#$% tape. Beautiful reels though.
> Cheers
> Shai
> בתאריך 11/11/13 2:02 AM, ציטוט John Haley:
>> At the beginning of the article, there's a note that some figures are
>> removed because they won't print right.  The author says he will send
>> them
>> on request.
>> John Haley
>> On Nov 10, 2013 5:53 PM, "Tim Stamps" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Incidentally, the article in ARSC has references to Figures that
>>> apparently did not make it into the article. Does anyone have the
>>> figures
>>> online somewhere?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 10, 2013, at 6:34 PM, John Haley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Richard, check out the article in the current ARSC Journal that says
>>> don't
>>>> bake tapes.  It mentions you.  Problem is, it doesn't really tell us
>>>> what
>>>> we should be doing, in how-to fashion.  But there is a lot to
>>>> consider in
>>>> the article.
>>>> Best, John Haley
>>>> On Nov 10, 2013 4:43 PM, "David Crosthwait" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Richard,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not in the office now but this sounds like something similar to
>>>>> what
>>>>> I've run into occasionally with some Sony V1K one-inch videotape for
>>> type C
>>>>> machines from that same era. I'll look into this as I have some of
>>>>> that
>>>>> stock on hand. The solution to squealing and general struggle in the
>>>>> transport was to bake for a shorter period with sub normal
>>>>> temperatures.
>>>>> Your mileage may vary in your situation though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> David Crosthwait
>>>>> DC Video
>>>>>
>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 10, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Richard L. Hess wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, David,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It was from 1978-1979 (or that's when it was recorded).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Richard
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2013-11-10 5:05 PM, David Crosthwait wrote:
>>>>>>> Richard,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What year was this Sony stock from? About 1980-82 by chance?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Richard L. Hess                   email:
>>> [log in to unmask], Ontario, Canada
>>>    647
>>>>> 479 2800 http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape
>>>>> transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.
>>>>>
>
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