Will Prentice:
Responding to Richard's comment that "all tape manufacturers seemed to have created batches of tape which suffered from this [i.e., SSS]"
I have never ever seen any BASF tape ever go sticky shed.
BASF is one of the worlds biggest chemical companies.
They have always claimed that they had all the knowldedge in house together with making all the ingredients in house.
So their position is that due to the above none of their tapes will exhibit sticky shed as they knew how to avoid it.
AGFA, it is the same except for some batches of Agfa 468 during half a year or so.
I have only seen one real of 468 go sticky despite having transferred several hundred such reals over the years.
In contrast it is almost a given that any reel of Ampex 456 will go sticky for sure.
And that is true over here since so far they all need baking.
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