Posted by Charles Tomaras on 01/11/37 11:45

"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com> wrote in message
news:e29h3a$5q6$1@panix2.panix.com...
> Charles Tomaras <tomaras@tomaras.com> wrote:
>>
>>Is there any one with a professional VHS machine that allows easy
>>alignment
>>changes that takles recovery jobs like this? Can VHS be baked and if so at
>>what temperature?
>
> There is an Ampex VHS machine that was actually designed for this sort of
> thing. However, it has an extensive TBC gadget hanging off the side,
> which
> may be a problem for PCM.
>
> VHS cannot be baked because it does not suffer from sticky shed. There
> are
> other things that go wrong with it, but not sticky shed. I have seen Type
> C
> videotapes that can get sticky shed and the last generation of Quad tapes
> had the faulty binder. But not VHS tapes. Baking is a particular
> solution
> for a particular problem and shouldn't just be applied willy-nilly to any
> tape.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

I'm kinda damned if I do and damned if I don't at this point. I'm fearful of
deteriorating the tapes by trying to play them on the fairly hi end consumer
SVHS machines I still have yet I feel like the longer I leave them the lower
the chances of recovery. ???

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