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<DIV>Hi Ted:</DIV>
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<DIV>I degauss everything in the tape path on a fairly regular schedule.
Why would you want to take a chance otherwise? When you discover that you
need to do it, it's too late. Obviously, a problem could arise between
scheduled degausing times, but that's not been a problem for me recently.
It's also my standard practice to degauss a new headwheel before mounting
it on the machine.</DIV>
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<DIV>Specifically regarding the headwheel, it is possible for a single head tip
to become magnetized. When that happens, you probably won't notice it on
the first pass, but subsequent passes of the same tape will become very obvious
with a loss of RF on the magnetized channel. I haven't seen that
problem in a long time, but I remember it well from the first time I saw it in
the early 70's and didn't realize what was wrong! </DIV>
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<DIV>Don Norwood<BR>Digitrak Communications, Inc.<BR><A
href="http://www.digitrakcom.com">www.digitrakcom.com</A> </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ted@quadvideotapegroup.com
href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">Ted Langdell</A> </DIV>
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<DIV>Chris, </DIV>
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<DIV>Sounds like you're saying that its better to invest the relatively short
amount of time to degauss the tape path often rather than to have
un-repairable damage to archive or customer tape's content that can't be
replaced or restored.</DIV>
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<DIV>What is the current practice among our QuadList users?</DIV><BR>
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