Question on tape cleaning machine

Tape Trail

Reel to reel, cassette and other analogue tape formats.

I just received, out of the blue a KYBE tape cleaning machine. It is designed for 10" reels of computer tape and it has the tape feed through a series of what looks like paper (looks to be rolls of Kim Wipes,lab grade cleaning tissue).
Does any one have experience with this kind of machine: looks obviously well built. It also feeds the tape through a radioactive device: 400uC of polonium. Any idea what it is there for?
Thanks in advance
Stu

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Topic - Question on tape cleaning machine - unclestu52 13:12:48 09/16/06 (4)

Re: Question on tape cleaning machine - ffitz 20:11:09 01/06/07 (1)

Re: Question on tape cleaning machine - ffitz 20:14:40 01/06/07 (0)

Re: Question on tape cleaning machine - DaveInVA 14:28:09 09/16/06 (1)

That's the machine - unclestu52 19:21:45 09/18/06 (0)

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