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Hello Mark, Contribution: Kmart brand (1970s) - 25% to 30% splice failure due to a short leader and dried-out splice glue. Can fail even under simple playback torque (as opposed to rewind/fast forward). Welded shell generally separates cleanly. Thanks for taking this on. Please do share the consolidated list of potential problems - this would be a nice resource. Eric Jacobs The Audio Archive, Inc. tel: 408.221.2128 fax: 408.549.9867 mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.TheAudioArchive.com Disc and Tape Audio Transfer Services and Preservation Consulting -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mark Campbell Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:43 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ARSCLIST] Cassette brands and known issues Hi all, I am seeking advice on cassette manufacture brands/batches with playback issues. AIATSIS is scoping the size of the preservation job wrt remaining analogue cassettes in the collection. This scoping is much more than mere numerical stocktaking of course (10,000 items 20,000 sides). There are a number of issues with cassettes old and new that will impact on sequence of operations and time required.. One of our tentative premises which with which we will guage and prioritise the workload is...there are fewer issues physical mechanism and tape playback issues with "name brand" cassettes. Major Manufacturers - Analog Cassettes Agfa Ampex BASF Denon Fuji Maxell Orwo Philips Quantegy Scotch Sony TDK Now, at the risk of offending some manufacturers (if they still exist) the second premis is that "off-brand" cassettes will be more difficult to playback due to myriad reasons. Off Brand list. AC AIWA Akai ALME Arista ATNT Audio Magnetics Corporation Audiomaster Audiopak Audiovox Audition Baba Bell & Howell Bestron Boots Audio Capitol Capitol 1 (Same as Capitol?) Century Century Sound (Same as Century?) Certron Combo Concertape (Radio Shack) Contek Crystal Dak Enterprises Denon Dindy Super EDU-Cassette (BASF) Emitape Fujisan GE General Gold Golden Goldstar Hi-Fi Hitachi IMA IMT International Recotape Corporation (IRC) Jaf JVC KDK Lafayette Lebotone Loewe Lucky Magnet Mallory Mark Maxwell (NOT Maxell) Mei-Ya Melodie 2000 Melody Meltrack Metro MS 600 Music 2000 National Panasonic Nivico Norelco Nulec Okhai Passport ((Manufactured by 3M) Pfatone Pilipe (NOT Philips) Pioneer Planet POP Prinzsound Profi Sound Radio Shack Realistic Rezound Ross Sanyo Seiko Sentry Shanghai Sharp SKC Smat Sonotech Soundcraft Superscope Superphonic (Zayre Corporation) Super-sound von Focitron Supertape TapeMaster TEAC TEAM Tips Tony Toshiba T-Series TSIC Union 3000 Unitape Universal Webcor Thanks for scrolling so far. If you have had an issue be it Sticky Shed, mechanism jamming, spool issues, windowing, grows mould like a petri dish... etc please let me know the brand, the date of manufacture (if known) and the issue. This will help us prioritise the cassette ingest process. Thanks all. Mark Mark Campbell Audio Manager AIATSIS AVA Phone 61 2 62461141 Fax 61 2 6261 4282 www.aiatsis.gov.au