Unwinding the Mystery of Degraded Reel-To-Reel Tapes (IMAGE)

American Chemical Society

Unwinding the Mystery of Degraded Reel-To-Reel Tapes

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A brown “sticky shed” residue on an unplayable reel-to-reel tape is shown accumulating at a playback machine’s contact points; the residue disappears upon heating.

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Andrew R. Davis

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