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<< 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...)