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Bazz4CQJ · 29th Nov 2017, 1:15 pm

Did you follow the recent thread on "Signal Levels" like me? It was the first time I heard the term "sticky shedding syndrome" (SSS).

Doing a little Google research, it seems that some makes suffer badly from it and other much less so. Assuming that your packaging is just a plastic film (as distinct from a metalised bag) that will probably not have made much difference, as water vapour diffuses at significant rates through all such films.

Apparently, tapes suffering badly from SSS can benefit from being "baked" to remove moisture, but it seems to be short-lived benefit. Beyond that, I'm still on my learning curve. I have just a couple of tapes dating back from the sixties, which are important to me, but I've not owned a reel to reel for >30 years, so have nothing to check them out on.

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29th Nov 2017, 1:15 pm	#2
Bazz4CQJ Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Oxfordshire, UK. Posts: 4,934	Re: Tape Deterioration on NOS LP Tapes Did you follow the recent thread on "Signal Levels" like me? It was the first time I heard the term "sticky shedding syndrome" (SSS). Doing a little Google research, it seems that some makes suffer badly from it and other much less so. Assuming that your packaging is just a plastic film (as distinct from a metalised bag) that will probably not have made much difference, as water vapour diffuses at significant rates through all such films. Apparently, tapes suffering badly from SSS can benefit from being "baked" to remove moisture, but it seems to be short-lived benefit. Beyond that, I'm still on my learning curve. I have just a couple of tapes dating back from the sixties, which are important to me, but I've not owned a reel to reel for >30 years, so have nothing to check them out on. B __________________ Saturn V had 6 million pounds of fuel. It would take thirty thousand strong men to lift it an inch.