Outstanding Video! You made me go dig up my 30 some reels of Ampex 478, 3M 809, 996 and try some baking. I also would like to try my Scotch Classic reels as well. I bought the cheap 5 tray digital food dehydrator off Amazon and am having a ball. Not sure how 478 will work out but we shall see...

I looked but didn't see where you've made a video regarding general care and storage of reel to reel tapes. That would be helpful to the masses....

Outstanding video thanks for the information.

Fascinating topic. Thanks.

Many of the ideas will work on video tapes as well. But a cool down of an hour or so is needed. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

@ReeltoReelWarehouse

4 ай бұрын

Good point. It takes some time for the tape binder to reconstitute during cooling.

loads of 478 here, ampex & quantegy. back-coat binding has broken down- not baking it because the carbon is stuck to the oxide surface, so what I've been doing is running the tape back-&-forth through a cotton wool pad soaked in naphtha. tapes I did this way ten years ago have stayed good. takes about seventy minutes to do 2500', in fast wind on a 'utility' deck (an A77) missing out the heads & guides.

My quantegy tapes are already infected, it is gonna be cured if it is baked by the food dehydrator?

What are your favorite new blank tape companies and formulations

Gene, thanx for video! Second from the bottom in the baking machine is Maxell. What the reason to baking Maxell tape? Is this tape with SSS?

@ReeltoReelWarehouse

6 ай бұрын

No Maxell tapes don't require baking.

I wonder. Has anyone tried building dry storage for their tapes? When I was young I saw in a welding shop, an old refrigerator that was being used to store welding rods. To keep them from absorbing water. Too long ago now to be sure but I think it may have had a larger light bulb set up to be permanently on to heat the fridge. I have wanted to try getting one of the glass doored commercial fridges. That way I could run some sort of dehumidifier scheme inside the fridge. Plus it would make a nice display unit for my tape. Lorne.

@ReeltoReelWarehouse

4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately sticky shed happens even in low humidity environments, and remember plastic bags are not water vapor barriers; eventually the RH inside the bag will equalize to the RH outside of it.

@nayumicraig5248

4 ай бұрын

@@ReeltoReelWarehouse What are your feelings on preemptive baking? I have to go through a large collection here and I'm tired of cleaning tape paths. Wondering if I should just bake everything to start with. Also what do you know from a safety stand point. Does the baking process give off any chemicals that we should be overly concerned with? Lorne.

i just put my akia 635d on line an my ampex tape is doing that ,,my tdk tape is ok

Hi Can anyone recommend the best sounding tapes that are free of SSS on TEAC machines particularly X series?

@ReeltoReelWarehouse

5 ай бұрын

Use late generation Maxell UDs / UD-XLs or XL-1s. The best for that machine.

note i know this sound nuts had to use a gas oven and with a heat watching it was set at low as it would go 55c for 8 hr take all 8 2nch tapes out let them cool down ampex 456 24 hrs later they were 100% all right i have a old a tellinge tapes are bad i have a soundcraft 820 that is not right re moved head block the motor i can fine power them to move the tape round om spool to spool with a light you can see the tape is not come away from the rest of the tape on the spool note 5 years on the tapes are ok i got hold of alot of basf 2 inch note the boxes for the tape are bad so i had to make tape rack to hold them in i stopped using 1/4 tapes gone over to betacam sp liner audio as there's alot of betacam new sealed tapes

@ReeltoReelWarehouse

5 ай бұрын

That's important information - if baked tapes are still usable after 5 years that is a good sign the tapes are good to be reused.

When baking the tape on a plastic reel, is there a rick of the reel melting?

@ReeltoReelWarehouse

5 ай бұрын

As ling at the temperature is under 140 F the reels should not melt.

Is there any way to fix squeaky tape? Will baking tape help?

@nayumicraig5248

5 ай бұрын

Squealing tape is sticky tape. Buy a fruit dehydrator or junk it. You will need to clean your tape path NOW if you played a squeaky tape. Lorne.

what model of food dehydrator is that???

@ReeltoReelWarehouse

4 ай бұрын

I am not sure of the brand. Just find one on ebay with a diameter big enough to fit the NAB reels.

@animalcorvair

4 ай бұрын

@@ReeltoReelWarehouse got one on ebay it came in broken have to send it back...

HI NOT ON ZONAL TAPES 1/2 inch and 1 inch

@ReeltoReelWarehouse

6 ай бұрын

Zonal tapes have no known sticky shed problems

Save the whale, go digital!

Very interesting topic, I had no idea that whale oil was used in the production of recording tape. I use a very similar food dehydrator when I have to bake tapes for someone. The worst part of that task is having to listen to the contents as it gets copied onto another format. Last time I did it I had to sit through two 1800’ reels from an amateur opera club 🥱😴