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Dear Rainer, Shamrock tape from that period is almost certainly not subject to binder hydrolysis; however, the squealing or squeaking (both appropriate) you are experiencing may be due to mis-slittling. Shamrock always sheds oxide, so stopping at intervals to clean it should be the only interruption to making ana/d transfer into a digital editor and then stringing it together the transfer. One man's opinion, anyway. Good luck, Ciao, DDR On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Dr Rainer E. Lotz <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > I have on quarter-track tape a stereo recording of the Marjorie Lawrence > Opera Theater production of Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha", Shryrock > Auditorium, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 17-18 November 1972. > Unfortunately it is a Shamrock 1 MIL polyester 1/4 IN x 1800 FT type 041 - > it squeaks and squeals (or whatever the appropriate word in English is). > I was given to understand that such tapes could be rescued by "baking" or > some other remedy, but I would not know how to do that. > > *Is there a better copy around somewhere...to replace mine. Perhaps on CD?* > > Thanks > Rainer > > > > -- > Dr. Rainer E. Lotz > Rotdornweg 81 > 53177 Bonn (Germany) > > Tel: 0049-228-352808 > Fax: 0049-228-365142 > Web: www.lotz-verlag.de > -- Dennis D. Rooney 303 W. 66th Street, 9HE New York, NY 10023 212.874.9626