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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.
>>>
>>
>>


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Best Regards,

Scott Phillips