[ddots-l] Re: Demagnetizing a Microcassette Recorder
- From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:20:37 -0800
Nickus,
The one thing you won't be able to stop with your storage proposal is the
earth's 1 Gauss magnetic field, which is slowly causing your magnetic media
to magnetize to a uniform polarization and thereby losing the information it
holds. Iron oxide particles are not permanent magnets and are therefore
susceptible to any weak magnetic field.
Of course it takes time, but it's always happening. So the longer you wait,
the worse it gets.
Dave
Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio
Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nickus de Vos" <bigboy529@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:14
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Demagnetizing a Microcassette Recorder
I have about 30 or so quarter inch reel to reel tapes and I'm worried about
them going bad, any suggestions for the best way and place to store them?
I've had suggestions before of air tight dark places and also led cabinets,
but I don't have any of those, the best I had up to now was a wooden drawer
far away from any magnetic or electrical devices. It's dark but I think it
fails on the air tight part.
-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf of Chris Smart
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 8:08 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Demagnetizing a Microcassette Recorder
If it's valuable, monetarily, sentimentally etc. you might want to
pay someone to professionally do their best at restoring the
contents. Otherwise, mini cassette was never a format known for
fidelity - maybe good for recording classroom lectures but that's
about it.
At 12:56 PM 12/14/2010, you wrote:
>well, I hate to say this but this is why tape is dead. I have
>tons of stuff I've recorded over the years archived on
>quarter-inch reel to reel tape and a lot of it has deteriorated
>over the years just sitting in storage
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