Thanks, All assistance is appreciated. As with any research project, we don't know going in what lights will click on, but we have to do something. Got a call today from someone who had baked what sounds like Ampex and had mag coat flying off. Baked 9 h at 50 °C. I know shedding has been going on at a low level, but it seems to have mushroomed this year. Cheers, Richard On 6/1/2016 10:27 PM, Corey Bailey wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Getting samples may take some time as 99.9% of the problem tapes I > encounter belong to clients and obtaining samples will take written > permission. I'll get after it though. > > Corey > Corey Bailey Audio Engineering > www.baileyzone.net > > On 6/1/2016 5:27 PM, Richard L. Hess wrote: >> Hi, Corey, >> >> Thanks for the kind words! >> >> You can help if you have any of the tapes that are shedding shards of >> mag coat by sending small samples. I will have a shipping address in a >> few days. Also samples of similar tapes from the same project that >> don't have the problem would be useful. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Richard > -- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800 http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.