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Hi Mike! I baked a bunch of 1/2 open reel EIAJ videotapes from the early 1970s with a lot of success. They would otherwise not have played at all because of SSS. Two of them I re-transferred approx. 2 years later. I had to bake them again and I was still able to play them back. 2 hours in a food dehydrator were enough for our tapes. I think these were mostly Sony reels. We had some BASF that squealed and gave off a white residue. Baking didn't help those. I have bunch of Ampex vhs tapes from the early 80s that will not rewind at all, but they are not gumming up the mechanics in the vcr. So I am not sure if i should bake these or not. Maybe just re-housing them would work. If people request dvd copies of our material we use stand-alone panasonic dvd recorders with success. I copy the footage onto the onboard harddrives and then do minimal editing and then burn them onto dvd Once the dvd is finalized i make a copy of it with our computer dvd burner for our Archives Hope this helps! Erik Notre Dame Archives Quoting [log in to unmask]: > In a message dated 2/3/2006 3:43:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > There have been lots of reports about SSS from videotape in 3/4" > sizes. I wouldn't be surprised if you had it. After all, it's Ampex! (sigh). > > On the AMIA list, Jim Lindner has cautioned us against baking > anything, but especially videotapes. He has good reasons for it, > including the possibility of the tape deforming and/or snapping back > to an earlier geometry prior to tensilization. I hope I'm quoting him > well in this brief summary. > > Jim got his start restoring 1/2" EIAJ videotapes, including Andy > Warhol's as I understand it. I have a lot of respect for him. Jim > Wheeler, a videotape engineer from Ampex is also on the AMIA List. > > I think joining and asking your question on AMIA-L would be a good > source of information. > *************** > > I haven't had SSS on some of the first Sony Umatic or TDK VHS cassettes ever > sold, though wear or loss of lubricant may be a problem. However some recent > VHS tapes have shown SSS-like problems in high humidity. > > I have a number of back-coated 1/2" reel-to-reel videotapes that definitely > show SSS. It is disappointing to learn that baking might not work on them. > > I've tried on a couple of occasions to join the AMIA-L list, both via email > and from the web page, without success. > > I'm looking for a practical (cheap & quick) way to transfer various video > formats to DVD for very small quantity distribution (1 or 2 at a time), with > minimal video editing. Any sources for practical experience with this would > be > welcome. > > Mike Csontos >