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Gary Galo makes an excellent point here. I keep several NAB hub reels around for this very purpose. I will generally load to a larger hub reel while exercising the tape. Besides, threading those smaller hubs is a real PITA! ;-) For the last pass when transferring, I will use the original reel as a take-up. This way, the customer gets their original reel back with a "Play Wind" on the tape. Cheers! Corey Corey Bailey Audio Engineering www.baileyzone.net On 7/13/2019 8:09 AM, Gary A. Galo wrote: > I can't remember if anyone commented in this in early replies to this question, but whenever I have a tape on a very small hub, I wind the tape onto a large hub 7-inch or a 10 1/2 inch reel, at least for the duration of the transfer. The amount of torque required to pull the tape off a very small hub is stressful to old tapes.