Date:         Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:46:11 -0500
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Subject:      Re: Squealing Scotch 996
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Now if we could only get the oil from whale's noses....

Stev Smolian

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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Squealing Scotch 996


Nose grease is (or was) also the best lube for Revox A700 brakes - once
a month and they never squealed. It's not sweat or "perspiration" or
"glow" but skin oil. Human skin. Rumor has it that the stopping of
whale oil was the reason for all the tape problems from the late 70s
on...


<L>

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
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On Nov 8, 2005, at 5:32 PM, David Lennick wrote:

> Radio Shack used to sell a bottle of head lubricant they claimed was for 
> this
> purpose. For that matter, a colleague once showed me a trick that actually
> worked on sticky shed tapes as well, at least if you needed to play one 
> track
> and the tape wasn't totally shot yet. You'd rub a little ('scuse my 
> French,
> ladies) sweat off the side of your nose and hold your finger against the 
> tape
> as it ran past the heads, and you'd give the head enough lubricant to play 
> a
> couple of minutes of the tape.
>
> dl

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