Hi Frank,
Yeah using the standard method of replacing tapes that are
already in situ does tend to bugger them up! If you really want to
preserve them first mark on the station start positions on each
tape with a china-graph pencil (cycle to each station and mark
above the heads) then the best way is to remove each tape
completely in tact onto an empty reel. That means lacing the fresh
tapes through the turnbuckles from above with something like
martins "special patent-pocking device" which I'm sure you've
seen. Bit of a faff really.
John
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MAinPsych@...Date sent: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:05:39 EST
Subject: [Mellotronists] MkII tapes
Just an idea...\u000f
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Something occured to me as I was looking at Ken M.'s pics
of the MkII tape-changing process that might preserve
that first station of sounds.\u000e Rather than cut the tape
being changed at the location where you were instructed,
couldn't the tapes be moved forward, lined up with station
2's initial transient marks lined up over the heads, and the
cut measured and made at the back of the rear roller?
Then with the tapes lined back up to station 1 (with the
tape being replaced left loose, e.g., not taken up on the
front roller) the new tape attached to the old (in its
entirety) could be pulled through. This might add a little
extra time to the process, but would preserve all six
stations for possible mounting on a 400 frame.\u000e
Martin/Ken/Bob/Jerry/other MkII owners, what do you
think?\u000e It's late, and I'm tired, but I hope the general
idea came through.\u000f
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Frank Samagaio\u000f
M400 #908\u000f
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