[QuadList] Rebuilding RCA TR-600s - Success

[Don Norwood]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Walko"

> Speaking of such...I noticed something yesterday.  We were playing and
> rewinding that tape quite a bit for testing purposes.  I have a
> test/alignment tape, but we didn't want to keep using it for our testing.
> After a couple hours of playing, we starting getting drop outs in the 
> video.
> These appeared to be constant and were at the exact same location on the
> video monitor.  I figured it had to be dirt on the heads.  Sure 
> enough...we
> thoroughly cleaned the heads and the problem went away.
>
When you say it "went away", do you mean that the same location on the tape 
played normally again, or that it stopped damaging other areas of the tape? 
The magnetic scratches that others have addressed would not go away, so if 
your "dropouts" disappeared, then they are something else.

Don