<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">During NAB, </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">One of the RTI guys said they had a <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>refurbished</SPAN></SPAN> 1" and that they will buy back an old one to repair it and resell it. </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Price unknown. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I have 1 <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2><SPAN>client</SPAN></SPAN> who uses his old VR2000's to clean tapes after they have been baked. </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">He uses his old dead heads and <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-4><SPAN>runs</SPAN></SPAN> them <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-5>though</SPAN> until they stop leaving <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-6><SPAN>residue</SPAN></SPAN> on the dead head before he tries the tape on the good head. </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Works surprisingly well until you get to a stack of tapes that was stored in a storage <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2><SPAN>shed<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></SPAN> without air conditioning. </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I have seen sappers that have had 15 passes and still are sticky. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">An old VR2000 would have more than enough torque to pull tape across cleaning rollers and would have enough room above the reels for a bolt on cleaning assembly. </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The problem is getting a gear reduction motor slow enough to pull the cleaning rollers 1 or 2 inches an hour. (and keeping the roller alignment dead on.) </SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv1001040764MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I really feel lucky to have my Recortec now, although I wish it was the combo 2”/1” model as I am encountering 1” tapes now that need cleaning. Are there any 1” data tape cleaners on the used market?</SPAN></div>
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