Mellotronists

<< You'd be attaching the start of the new tape to the end of the old tape to 
pull the new tape through the frame, correct?

Any kind of adhesive tape will work for that; it's only temporary and 
doesn't have any audio application >>

ah yes, but our friend goes on to say he wants to keep the old set on a 
spool, all joined up so as to be able (perhaps, one day...) to reverse the 
operation. this is exactly how I've done it, on several occasions. 

luckily, being a complete freak & having over 25 1/4" decks about the place, 
I also have a good supply of splicing tape. in the UK, canford still sell it 
in pre-cut lengths in a little dispenser. I would suggest trying us recording 
media (the link to this site appears in an earlier message, while I know of 
them through the reel-to-reel group I'm on).

I have stored a couple of old sets, joined end-to-end as they came out of the 
frame pulling the new tape behind them, on modified NAB spools; you can get 
3/8" tape onto them if you dismantle them & fit shims. they still fit in their 
boxes after this too. 
I dread to think what would become of the tapes after a short time being 
stored with scotch tape holding them together.... (I used to be brought cassettes 
that folks had attempted to splice using sellotape....) 

I made a short vid of myself doing this last time. I might try encoding it & 
shoving it in the files section presently.
tom, don't I know you from some other lists? notron?

this m400 in stockholm, do we know whose it was yet? is the polar machine 
still there?

duncan/r.m.i./400nr1098 
(10-98 is, I understand, police radio code for either "available for 
assignment" or "escaped prisoner". hmmm...)

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 04:06:53PM -0400, ferrograph@... wrote:
> << You'd be attaching the start of the new tape to the end of the old tape to 
> pull the new tape through the frame, correct?
> 
> Any kind of adhesive tape will work for that; it's only temporary and 
> doesn't have any audio application >>
> 
> ah yes, but our friend goes on to say he wants to keep the old set on a 
> spool, all joined up so as to be able (perhaps, one day...) to reverse the 
> operation. this is exactly how I've done it, on several occasions. 
> 

Thanks for the confirmation.  I put an order into US Recording Media
and it should be here in a day or two.

Yes - the idea was to use a bit of splice tape to pull the new one through
and then join each of the old pieces together on a takeup reel.

I did some tuneup/repair work on my Tron and I'll post some bits in
a separate message.  (Just some ' oh yeah,' type stuff, nothing
earth-shattering; hopefully to make it easier for others).


> tom, don't I know you from some other lists? notron?
> 

yep - and maybe a future grex list if enough of those boxes get into
people's hands...

>ah yes, but our friend goes on to say he wants to keep the old set on a
>spool, all joined up so as to be able (perhaps, one day...)

Ah, sorry, Tom, missed that.  Thanks for the correction, Duncan.

...kl...
M400 #805 - no splices
M400 #1037 - no vices (aside from 2 wonky pinch rollers)

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