Baking the squeal away?

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I'm transferring a bunch of 1970's-vintage Radio Shack reel-reel tapes to the computer. Most are going fine, but I have three that squeal -- they make a rhythmic squeak on playback, and for some reason the squeak is audible in the digitized file.
So I'm searching here and I come across tape-baking, though it mainly seems to be recommended for shedding, which is not a problem with most of the tapes I'm dealing with. What do you think?
If I should bake, the next question would be whether I can do it without buying a convection oven. I have a normal electric oven whose lowest temperature is 170, which seems to be too hot. Are there any other expedients?

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Topic - Baking the squeal away? - CD 22:55:46 12/23/06 (1)

Re: Baking the squeal away? - Inmate51 09:31:24 01/03/07 (0)

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