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In Reply to: RE: The importance of frequent tape deck exeercise. posted by Dave Pogue on November 21, 2014 at 06:16:29
Dave, yours is an anecdotal story.
Let's review: You played a tape on a deck which hadn't been used in several months. Then, the deck died.
Your assumption is that the failure was because it hadn't been used in several months.
You have zero evidence that the failure was due to lack of use.
The deck could have just as easily failed after daily use. There's no way to know.
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You could be right, but your argument is foolish because you could also be wrong.
From time to time, I am given archival tapes to transfer to digital. In between my Nak CR-7 sits idle. When I get a job to do, do you think that the first tape I put into the deck is the rare tape to be archived? You have to be kidding! The first thing I do is to put into the deck a tape that I don't care about that sounded good the last time I played it. If it plays without drama and sounds good only then do I put in the rare archival tape.
It is possible that the old acetate tape in question turned to "dust" through the ravages of time and, perhaps, a poor storage environment. Of course were this to be the case, it would only be "anecdotal", a total cop-out phrase in my opinion. It is a phrase used by the non-discerning to dismiss in a dogmatic fashion the very clues that might enable them to advanced to be better world-view. But I know that acetate tapes can turn to dust, because I have several 4 track pre-recorded tapes that turned to dust as could be seen while threading the takeup reel on my R2R deck before I even pressed play and I could care less whether you believe me or not. I also know that tape decks have rubber parts that degrade over time and this can account for unreliable operation after a period of storage. (This is a particular failing of early Nak CR-7's that didn't have the rubber idler replaced by a gear mechanism.)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Hey Tony, my point wasn't with regard to the tape. It was with regard to the tape deck "puff of smoke". These are two separate issues.
Acetate tape, fortunately, breaks cleanly, making it easy to repair, unlike polyester/Mylar tape, which can stretch an inch of tape into a foot of tape. Acetate tape, being obviously old (at least about 50 years) is subject to becoming brittle and easily broken on a machine which isn't "gentle" to it.
The cause of the break could easily be the deck's brakes or tension control, or it could be the electronics which control the brakes or tension control.
In either case, the fact that the deck released its smoke may or may not be related to the brake electronics, and may be something completely unrelated. We do not have enough information to know, at this point.
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Yep, anecdotal. Let's hear yours, with all the scientific evidence you can muster. I'm sure it will be very convincing. No anecdotes, please.
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