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<DIV>Lee</DIV>
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<DIV>What does the Demod out look like?</DIV>
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<DIV>Chris Hill</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 8/1/2011 5:12:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lasvegastvengineer@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>Hello Larry, </DIV>
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<DIV>Sorry but not the problem, </DIV>
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<DIV>The closest thing I can describe the effect is white streaks with
analog snow in them trailing out like a comet tail from the trailing
edge of anything white in the picture. </DIV>
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<DIV>No digital blocks, Not a head clog. <BR></DIV>
<DIV>Thanks. </DIV>
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<DIV>Lee </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 7/31/11, LARRY
<I><leodham@centurylink.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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LARRY <leodham@centurylink.net><BR>Subject: Re: [QuadList]
<SPAN>AVR</SPAN> 3 heads question<BR>To: "Quad List"
<quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><BR>Date: Sunday, July 31,
2011, 6:58 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV>Hello Lee,</DIV>
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<DIV>I have been following some of the back-and-fourth e-mails on your
tape playback trouble.</DIV>
<DIV>Here is my two cents worth:</DIV>
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<DIV> I have experienced this problem before.</DIV>
<DIV>The video is tearing in what looks to be square blocks?
right??</DIV>
<DIV>I have encountered that very same effect here on a VR-1200b. It
was caused here by the playback equalization. A good way to verify if
this is the problem is to go to manual equalization, and turn
down(reduce) the EQ one channel at a time. If you see an improvement,
then stop the machine, unthread the tape, and look with a magnifier at
the drum surface behind each head tip(trailing surface). You may find
a small build-up of black-looking stuff behind one, or all, of the
head tips on the drum edge surface itself. </DIV>
<DIV>This build-up increases the diameter of the head drum just enough
to decrease tip penetration at the head.</DIV>
<DIV>Usual cleaning of the tips will not remove this buildup. Alcohol
and a fingernail will. CAREFULLY!!</DIV>
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<DIV> OK, hope this helps,</DIV>
<DIV>larry<BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "lee williams"
<lasvegastvengineer@yahoo.com><BR>To: "Quad List"
<quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><BR>Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011
12:24:33 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [QuadList] AVR 3 heads
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<DIV>Hello, </DIV>
<DIV>Answers below questions. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 7/30/11, Chill315@aol.com
<I><Chill315@aol.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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Chill315@aol.com <Chill315@aol.com><BR>Subject: Re:
[QuadList] AVR 3 heads question<BR>To:
quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com<BR>Date: Saturday, July 30,
2011, 9:38 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV>Lee</DIV>
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<DIV>How does the RF envelope look on the scope?</DIV>
<DIV>No Scope - I can tell I have plenty of RF with my
tracking adjustment. </DIV>
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<DIV>How is Vertical lining up with house?</DIV>
<DIV>AVR3 is on internal generator. No difference if I hook up
a black source to the machines. </DIV>
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<DIV>Do you have an alignment tape? If so, how does it
play and where is the tracking knob?</DIV>
<DIV>Alignment and known good tapes play fine. </DIV>
<DIV>Client has several thousand tapes made in the early 80's
(probably on a VR2000) </DIV>
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<DIV>Are you using manual or auto tracking?</DIV>
<DIV>Manual normally. No difference in auto. </DIV>
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<DIV>30 lines of black may be that you are one or two head
passes off in the vertical realm. The tearing may be due
to the fact that you can not get the head centered on the
track perfectly. </DIV>
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<DIV>The head assemblies are made so good that they meet SMPTE
specifications with in a few hairs. This is to create
interchangeability between machines. </DIV>
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<DIV>I would not touch the heads in any way as you will
destroy the interchange. It is a critical factor.
If you saw the recent slide show on here, you see the great
deal of care taken to make a head.</DIV>
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<DIV>Now the tape you have may have been done in a non
standard method. That is why all the questions.
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<DIV>I always assume that the tape was poorly made. Many
operations did not do best practices and thus there is a lot
of poorly made tapes. </DIV>
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<DIV>I know it's the tape that is off. (several thousand of
them) </DIV>
<DIV>Now how do I get them transferred short of sending in the
weak head to the rebuilder and have him duplicate the
deviation were the head is off of true? </DIV>
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<DIV>Chris Hill</DIV>
<DIV>WA8<SPAN>IGN</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 7/30/2011 11:56:38 A.M. Eastern
Daylight Time, lasvegastvengineer@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top><BR>Hay all, <BR>Have a good one here
??? <BR><BR>AVR3 Mark XV heads. <BR><BR>Have some 2"
tape that when you try to pull it through the machine
will will give you something that looks like video
tearing in the whites and slow horizontal jitter.
<BR><BR>If I slam the tracking all the way down, I get
a very clean picture, but about 30 lines of black
overhead on the screen. <BR><BR>I see this on all my
new(er) heads I get from both Aheadtek and
VideoMagnetics. <BR><BR>I have 1 very warn out head
(supplier unknown) that will lock to these
tapes<BR><BR>Has anybody seen this before and is there
a way this heads set up can be duplicated?
<BR><BR>Thanks <BR><BR>Lee
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