Following as this is one problem I have not come across, yet.  Thank you
for bringing it to the ARSC forum. 

Andreas 

On 2021-02-25 07:38, Tim Gillett wrote:

> Thanks James,  I checked the PEM 469's I have. Written on the boxes
> is "Made in Germany" so that seems to tally with your experience.
> 
> Tim.
> 
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> It may be a very small sample (<20) but just about all the squealing
> Agfa
> PEM468/469 that I've encountered has come from US sources. Were the
> bad
> batches mainly sold in the USA? Most of the PEM468 that I've
> encountered
> from Europe has played very well.
> 
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 05:08, Tim Gillett
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> 
>> I've revisited playing around with Marie O'Connell's wet play
>> technique but have come to a dead end as I need as a test sample an
>> actual squealing tape which does not respond to normal baking.
> Marie
>> mentioned PEM 469 of which I have many reels but the samples I've
>> tried seem to play fine. I also have much 3M 177 but reports on
> that
>> seem mixed. Perhaps that's related to the moderate Mediterranean
>> climate here in Perth, Australia. Richard Hess mentions 3M 175 and
>> some others but what would be the most common known bad cases? I
> may
>> have some here in my collection but it would shorten the process if
> I
>> could narrow my search down to certain tape types known to squeal
>> regardless of baking.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> Perth, Western Australia
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