Non-baking cure for sticky shed? (being serious for a moment)
js at cimmeri.com
js at cimmeri.com
Mon Jan 18 10:56:16 CST 2016
On 1/18/2016 11:33 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
> There was a tape sold by a few
> manufacturers (I think 3M's was called
> Black Watch) that had a coarse black
> matte finish on the back side. A
> problem with some drives which had
> fast rewind speeds was that air was
> trapped in the tape wind, and then
> once a bunch more layers of tape was
> wound on the reel, the tape wrap would
> cinch and fold over a piece of tape.
> This matte finish was supposed to cure
> that, and I think it did. But, that
> finish was not as durable as the
> magnetic coating, and would start to
> shed all over the drive, leaving stuff
> on the data surface. I think about 5
> years after the stuff came out, most
> data centers searched out and trashed
> all these tapes.
>
> Jon
Interesting. I just happen to have a 3M
Black Watch tape right here next to me
that I'm using to test a Mark 300 tape
cleaning machine. The tape so far is
fine, not shedding anything front or back.
- J.
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