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I keep a Tandberg 64X tube deck around that I rebuilt to use specifically for playing and archiving these old fragile tapes. These decks when working properly have very gentle transports. They also have a fairly slow FF and REW so I always FF and then REW an old tape before trying to play it. I found the tapes are less likely to break on playback this way. As another poster said its worth putting leaders on these old tapes especially as many of these tapes are already missing several inches of tape at the beginning and this will help a lot. Many of the 3 motor high speed high torque FF and REW decks are just to brutal for these very fragile tapes. I found that the older the tape the better they usually are, especially the ones that were based on Scotch 111 tapes that don't seem to suffer from sticky shed much. I have tapes from '56 my Dad made on Scotch 111 that still play perfectly.

Dave

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