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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] demagnetising tape heads

From: Ken Leonard <ken@...>
Date: 2006-06-10

At 11:25 AM 6/10/2006, hermanringer wrote:
>hi guys!
>
>do you think if I buy a small demagnetizer I can do it myself, or
>should I get someone who´s into electronics professionally?
>
>I read Norm Leete´s maintainance page, so I would remove the tape frame
>completely. But is there another risk beside of screwing up the tapes?

Demagnetizing the heads is a simple job. I put the method I use at the
bottom of this page:

http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/mellotronia/techtalk.htm

...kl...
M400 #805 - risk averse
M400 #1037 - simple