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Subject: Re: Another M400 Question

From: "tron400" <tron400@yahoo.com>
Date: 2013-03-10

What causes the magnetization anyway? Is it static electricity from the tapes? Wouldn't it dissipate over time?

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "Tony" <atm655@...> wrote:
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> Hi gang,
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> On the demagnetize subject, I’ve had #510 since 1975 and can count the times I’ve demagnetized it on one hand.
> These devices (degassers) can cause more problems than they solve, so be careful!
> Don’t love them to death.
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> Tony #510 and #029
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> From: john barrick
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 6:41 PM
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Another M400 Question
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> When I bought my Han-D-Mag, it came with a gauss meter. Good stuff.
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> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:32 PM, tronbros <tronbros@...> wrote:
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> We have never demagged the prototype M4000 in 5 years. It gets turned on daily and the tapes are as fresh as the day we installed them. Demagging is not something you have to do in years unless you unplug the headblock and forget to shortout the audio box socket or have some major malfunction. DON'T PANIC!
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> M
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> 1963 to 2013 - 50 years of mellotrons
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> mellotronics.com on my iPad
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> On 9 Mar 2013, at 19:43, lsf5275@... wrote:
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> Han-D-Magic
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> --
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> john barrick
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> ∗Leo got it right the first time∗
> ∗then he added a second pickup and got it righter∗
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