Re: Reel to reel revival
Leevers Rich made their own heads, back in the sixties and seventies, with surprisingly little specialised equipment, an oven to bake the lamination stack and a Marconi bridge to measure inductance. However they bought in the photo etched lamination sheets , that was a very specialised operation, which they then built up into stacks of the appropriate track width.
I doubt that you can obtain the laminations now, even then it was difficult to get the right grade of material.
They were producing heads for perhaps 10 machines a month plus spares, I think you would need to up the production a lot more than that to get a reliable supply of laminations.
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