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March 31, 2006

Project Notes: Advanced oxide delamination of a cassette

Filed under: Tape Aging, cassettes, project notes — Richard L. Hess @ 9:58 pm

A client phoned me and said a cassette he was playing started to shed in his machine and he stopped and took it out. He sent it to me and as I pulled a little bit of clear leader out of the middle of the tape, this is what I found:

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Notice how the complete strips of oxide exist on their own, independent of the clear “leader” to which they previously were attached. (more…)



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