DECtape madness

On 1/13/2018 6:20 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: The ones in the post are from Bill Donzelli.? I'd imagine he's happy.? I looked at acquiring another one, but they went way high as you pointed out.? My friend with some of the TU-55 and TU-56's has several boxes and said not to bother, but I figured what the heck. Bill didn't sell the 4 piece one.? I bought a single item last year for $5 bucks or so plus shipping.? I'm not sure why these have gone so high. We are talking to a local fellow here in Los Angeles who is in the business of renting out a studio with ancient tape drives for production as needed and he has contact with a couple of guys who may be able to fab up heads.? We are interested in exploring that if it is feasible to have replacements made.? They currently make heads for the audio units there and could possibly make heads to any spec that is available. I'm mainly asking around because it seems there are a lot of options for moving tape now days.? Media is scarce, but not unavailable. And unless you have NOS replacement heads that is one stopper for using original media with system.? I probably won't pursue it, but will at least know how hard the head problem is. Thanks Jim