My experience in Miami in the early 1980's and 486 was terrible. The tape sounded great, but it seemed to start to disintegrate about half way into a long session, resulting in many safety transfers to finish sessions. Scott On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > It's so strange that different tapes perform so differently in different > parts of the world. Scotch 206/207 is pretty much thought of as stable and > non-problematic in the U.S. I've never had a problem with it, hundreds of > reels over 3+ decades, even scraps that were stored in a hot attic for > years. I did have one reel of Scotch 208 that was tacky if not outright > sticky, but I'm not positive it was really 208 and now, years later, I > wonder if it was sticky because of splice ooze. > > Agfa PEM468 is the only tape from that company that I've dealt with, and > it was bad. The tape was gooey, but not sticky. So it was oily and tacky > enough to leave gooey residue on the tape path, but not stuck together like > sticky-shed. In fact it fast-wound just fine and we didn't realize there > was a problem until we noted goo on the static guides. The content was > un-important so we just tossed the tapes, didn't experiment with baking. It > was a paying job, not a science project, so no time to spend satisfying > curiosities. Those Agfa reels were circa early 1980's and had been stored > in a humid basement, but not so damp that there was any mold or > moisture-damage on the packaging. > > The only other European tape I've dealt with was BASF brown-oxide, maybe > L-something series, 1-mil 3600 foot reels from the 70's. The tape worked > perfectly and the pack was super-precise. I worried about the nasty smell > coming off the plastic bags inside the boxes, so I recommended that we > throw them out. The plastic was getting a bit stiff and I think was on the > way to getting oily. These were recordings made by a private collector and > they were really outstanding, she had done a good job making the recordings > and the playback went without a hitch. > > Now watch, we'll have 10 other people who have never had a lick of trouble > with PEM468 and nightmarish tape-hell with the BASF tape! Strange. > > -- Tom Fine > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shai Drori" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:35 AM > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] AGFA PE46 problems > > > > My experience with the 206/207 is really bad. Squeals, emulsion >> separation, a really bad tape here. >> Shai >> >> בתאריך 2/17/2012 2:08 PM, ציטוט Goran Finnberg: >> >>> Thankfully I have never ever seen any Scotch 206/207 reel exhibit sticky >>> shed. >>> >> >> -- Best Regards, Scott Phillips