In case someone hasn't mentioned baking the tapes apparently an hour at 50 degc works wonders On 20 May 2015 20:48, "Johnny Billquist" <b...@update.uu.se> wrote:
> On 2015-05-20 21:36, Al Kossow wrote: > >> On 5/20/15 12:11 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: >> >>> There might be rubber parts in there. >>> >>> Nope, I like them better than TK50s, though, because you pop off the two >> C rings and the head assembly >> lifts up to clean, which is necessary after every tape you try to read. >> > > I think I have one or two TZ30 somewhere. Maybe I should look more at them. > But the TK50 is really easy to clean. You just remove the 3 screws that > holds the cover plate, and then you just clean the heads where they are. > > But yes, you do need to clean the heads a lot on those drives. I believe I > mentioned that in my original reply. :-) > > TK50 tapes stick or gum up at the ends just like QIC carts do. I haven't >> tried baking them. Thankfully >> there are almost none in the queue right now to read and hopefully it >> will stay that way. >> > > Interesting. I haven't seen that. And they construction is totally > different from QIC tapes as well, unless my memory is failing me even more. > > Johnny > >
