29 Jan
2015
29 Jan
'15
1:56 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Al Kossow wrote:
On 1/28/15 8:37 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
It's simple: heat.
I heat the belt with the radiation from a halogen lamp (or other light
bulb that emits enough heat). But I suppose that the first couple of
minutes of a tape baking session will also do it.
Christian
I found the older posts about band installation
and about restoring
stretched bands with hot water. I do not recall, however, whether anybody
has posted about successfully unsticking the band from the tape media
without stripping oxide. That's something I'd sure like to know about!
http://www.hp9845.net/9845/tutorials/savetapes/ has an interesting
discussion of the problems of recovering DC-100 tapes but doesn't
mention unsticking the tape. I'll keep digging. I suspect it will be
wetting the band at the point of contact with the tape. I'm guessing the