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<DIV>If the dropouts look like tone wheel pulses or tach pulses in the picture,
you have a magnetized spot in the tape path. Get out the head
de-magnetizer and do a through jog on all heads, rollers, arms, and any other
spot that touches tape. </DIV>
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<DIV>I never could figure out how these little bits of magnetic fields would get
on the transport. Does anyone have the knowledge of the cause?</DIV>
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<DIV>Chris Hill</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>