[sdiy] Tape head collage (pretty much not synth DIY, sorry)

[Rude 66]

actually you can buy demagnetizing tools.. it's just a handheld device that
plugs into a mains outlet. you hold it onto the head and demagnetizes it..
i've had one for years for my tape decks.

r./



----- Original Message -----
From: "nN AAt e e" <timexheater at comcast.net>
To: "Andreas Gaunitz" <andreas.gaunitz at konstfack.se>;
<synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Tape head collage (pretty much not synth DIY, sorry)


>
> > > One more thing... DO demagnetize your head (tape head) regularly. It
> > > will lengthen the life expectancy of your collage. ;-)
>
> > How is this done?
>
> i think it was more of a joke :P
>
> to demagnetize a normal tape head, you can buy a special cassette that has
> the stuff in it to demagnetize the head so it won't ruin yr tapes and
sound
> bad etc... but if someone is constantly running a head back and forth over
> strips of tape glued to a board, i think demagnetization is the least of
> their problems...
>
> i'm sure if someone _really_ wanted to they could demagnetize a removed
head
> :P
>
> *[imagines someone holding a tape head wand by hand onto the cassette,
with
> their other hand turning a pencil stuck into the take up side's wheel :P]*
>
> - nate
>