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Re: demagging heads

2007-05-27 by leetronhead

put your tapes in another room until you are demagged
Lee





--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, john barrick <astroboy@...> wrote:
>
> Good Morning all - I'm in the process of demagging the heads on 1407 
and 
> am following Ken Leonard's procedure as detailed on his web site.  If 
> you end up bumping one of the heads with the end of the demagger 
(wand 
> type), do you simply repeat the process for that head?  If your thumb 
> slips off the demagger's spring loaded switch while inches away from 
the 
> headblock, is it safe to assume that you need to start the whole 
> procedure over again?
> 
> Thanks (I don't want to erase any tapes),
> 
> john barrick (saving pennies for my M4000)
>

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