And following up, there is generic blue and then there is Scotch #67, which is all I have ever used since high school in the 60s… :-)
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On Mar 1, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Lou Judson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Tom, is there any way to tell which splicing tape it is, the pale blue or the white? I'd be sad if the 3M blue tape is doing that - my tapes form the 70s and 80s have Sticky Shed, but the blue splicing tape is perfect, peelable and replaceable... not oozing.
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> On Mar 1, 2015, at 6:46 AM, Tom Fine wrote:
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>> I am right now working with tapes from 1959 and 1961, 3-track 1/2" tapes, with splices "replaced" in 1971 (according to documentation on the boxes) and, in the case of 4 reels, splices cleaned and/or replaced in the early 1990s. Alas, every splice so far has needed new cleaning with Naptha and many of them -- even those cleaned and successfully played in the 1990s -- have required full replacement.
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>> The replacement splicing tape put on in the 1990s has proven mostly stable but there has been some ooze and stiction around some splices. I tend to believe that is leftover ooze from non-complete cleaning of the original splices before replacement, but it could be new ooze over the past 20 years.
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>> Bottom line is that there seems to be no "permanent" splicing tape, it all seems to ooze and/or dry out over time.
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