Re: Bulk tape eraser

2017-04-30 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 4/30/2017 6:22 PM, Jerome H. Fine via cctalk wrote: Looking for recommendations for a bulk tape eraser for SDLT and DLT IV tapes. Eons ago at Microdata we had a commercial grade bulk eraser which could do 2400' reels maybe a bit larger. I wondered by one day with a new fangled device

Re: Bulk tape eraser

2017-04-30 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 04/30/2017 06:22 PM, Jerome H. Fine via cctalk wrote: >> Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > FORTUNATELY, I had an old voice coil fram a speaker available. It > must have been a large speaker because the coil was a cylinder about > 3" in diameter and about 3" long. The permanent magnet seems to

Re: Bulk tape eraser

2017-04-30 Thread Jerome H. Fine via cctalk
>Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 04/30/2017 07:38 AM, Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote: Looking for recommendations for a bulk tape eraser for SDLT and DLT IV tapes. If it's just a small quantity to be erased, there are many Radio Shack videotape erasers being offered, some NIB,

Re: Bulk tape eraser

2017-04-30 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 4/30/17 10:04 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Certainly not DLT IV tapes--I've done the bulk eraser thing with them > and the result re-recorded just fine. > Sorry, I flipped DLT and LTO in my mind..

Re: Bulk tape eraser

2017-04-30 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
On Apr 30, 2017, at 10:04 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > On 04/30/2017 08:55 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> You may as well run them through a shredder. All modern tapes have >> embedded servo tracks. > > Certainly not DLT IV tapes--I've done the bulk eraser

Re: Bulk tape eraser

2017-04-30 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 04/30/2017 08:55 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > You may as well run them through a shredder. All modern tapes have > embedded servo tracks. Certainly not DLT IV tapes--I've done the bulk eraser thing with them and the result re-recorded just fine. But then, DLT IV is hardly modern.

Re: Bulk tape eraser

2017-04-30 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
I'll add that using the little Radio Shack "high power" device well, is not a simple matter--the trick is to keep the eraser moving and using different angles and distances. If you want a high-power tape *degausser*, be prepared to part with some real cash--the low end seems to start just north

Re: Bulk tape eraser

2017-04-30 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
You may as well run them through a shredder. All modern tapes have embedded servo tracks. On 4/30/17 7:38 AM, Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote: > >Looking for recommendations for a bulk tape eraser for SDLT and DLT IV > tapes. > > > Mike Loewenmloe...@c

Re: Bulk tape eraser

2017-04-30 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 04/30/2017 07:38 AM, Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote: > > Looking for recommendations for a bulk tape eraser for SDLT and DLT > IV tapes. If it's just a small quantity to be erased, there are many Radio Shack videotape erasers being offered, some NIB, all for about $20. I've used one

Re: Bulk tape eraser

2017-04-30 Thread Alexandre Souza via cctalk
I'd go to the Athana site, they have some degaussers and a nice write-up about what can (and can't) be safely degaussed 2017-04-30 11:38 GMT-03:00 Mike Loewen via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>: > >Looking for recommendations for a bulk tape eraser for SDLT and DLT IV > ta

Bulk tape eraser

2017-04-30 Thread Mike Loewen via cctalk
Looking for recommendations for a bulk tape eraser for SDLT and DLT IV tapes. Mike Loewen mloe...@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/