16 Aug
2014
16 Aug
'14
1:31 p.m.
On 08/16/2014 12:21 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
Well, there is a new winner in the "most evil
tape category" that makes
MRX V look good in comparison.
Wabash (who would have guessed..)
Well, I've discovered that it appears to be "Wabash of a certain
vintage". I've got a reel of Wabash here with no fewer than 4 leaders
spliced on--this thing has been around the block a few times. From
1978. Reads like a dream.
80s Wabash is a nasty affair for me, no matter what the medium. The
awful thing is that they OEMed the stuff to a number of different sellers.
Memorex must have sold a ton of the MRX stuff in the day. I've seen
more of it than I care for.
I've been toying with a rig that will wipe a very thin layer of
cyclomethicone onto the most problematic of tapes in the hope that the
reduced friction will reduce shedding. No results yet.
--Chuck