Steven C. Barr:
One wonders...if there is moisture involved, and thus present in the "defective" tapes...would it be possible to use a microwave oven (which requires water molecules to create heat) to "bake" the tapes?
It is a fact that the recommended way to treat AGFA 468/469, from those batches during a year around 1990, that were found to go sticky, and in fact the only AGFA tape to go sticky and only from production during a year as far as I know the story...
IS to bake it in a microwave oven according to the AGFA memo issued at that time.
This was reported by Dave Collins Chief Mastering Engineer at A&M records who reported that he was visited at A&M by a technical representative of AGFA GEAVERT GmbH who set it all up and guided David Collins through the procedure and left the Technical memo.
I would love to get my hand on a copy of that memo for sure.
-- Best,
Goran Finnberg The Mastering Room AB Goteborg Sweden
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