Mickster
Well-known member
An old pal of mine recently found a number of reel to reel tapes of our old band music from back in the 70's. They're quarter inch tapes originally recorded on a Sony sound on sound machine. We're currently looking for a cheap reel to reel to play these tapes on so we can archive whatever material survived.
My question is.......what can we expect to happen? The tape is Scotch 3M silicone lubricated .5mil tensilized polyester backing Tartan series 6.35mm X 730m. We're going to test the machine as best we can before we play the old tapes. Does anyone know how this brand of tape will be after 45 years? Is there something we should do to prepare the machine or the tapes? I assume it's worth a try.........but would like to know how you guys would go about this. I also assume we may only get one or two usable passes before we get some major failure.
My question is.......what can we expect to happen? The tape is Scotch 3M silicone lubricated .5mil tensilized polyester backing Tartan series 6.35mm X 730m. We're going to test the machine as best we can before we play the old tapes. Does anyone know how this brand of tape will be after 45 years? Is there something we should do to prepare the machine or the tapes? I assume it's worth a try.........but would like to know how you guys would go about this. I also assume we may only get one or two usable passes before we get some major failure.