Re: Blue tape retainers

2015-06-10 Thread COURYHOUSE
, discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Blue tape retainers On 06/09/2015 08:21 PM, ben wrote: Also would not a fall like that damage the tape reel? When baking tapes with the Wright Line seals, I've learned to remove the seals

Re: Blue tape retainers

2015-06-10 Thread Chuck Guzis
I finally succeeded in putting a name to where I've seen that clingy vinyl material before--in a children's toy: Google: Colorforms --Chuck

Re: Blue tape retainers

2015-06-10 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Jun 9, 2015, at 22:57 , Chuck Guzis ccl...@sydex.com wrote: The 3M ones that I've seen are hard white plastic (not PVC or whatever Wright Line used) with a keyhole-sort of affair that allows the circle to expand. Interesting. I don't think I've encountered that style before, or if I

Re: Blue tape retainers

2015-06-09 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Jun 9, 2015, at 15:33 , Chuck Guzis ccl...@sydex.com wrote: Could this be the right stuff? http://www.amazon.com/Grafix-9-Inch-12-Inch-9-Pack-Assorted/dp/B00114OVFE/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt It seems to me that I've seen it in the form of letters to be stuck to windows. That looks really

Re: Blue tape retainers

2015-06-09 Thread COURYHOUSE
I have had them come inthem for video tape too and they were seem to be white vinyl in this case Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 6/9/2015 5:04:47 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, bfranc...@jetnet.ab.ca writes: On 6/9/2015 5:38 PM, Pete

Re: Blue tape retainers

2015-06-09 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 06/09/2015 09:57 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: Please forgive my ignorance, but which variety are the Wright Line seals? I think I've encountered three styles of magtape widgets: The common white plastic with a black buckle and squarish hook, which have been on the vast majority of tapes I've

Re: Blue tape retainers

2015-06-09 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Jun 9, 2015, at 22:20 , Chuck Guzis ccl...@sydex.com wrote: On 06/09/2015 09:57 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: Please forgive my ignorance, but which variety are the Wright Line seals? I think I've encountered three styles of magtape widgets: The common white plastic with a black buckle and

Re: Blue tape retainers

2015-06-09 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 06/09/2015 10:40 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: Hmm, the NOS 3M 777 tapes that I got off eBay have that one seals. Did 3M later switch to Wright Line seals? Off to google pictures of random mag taps for edutainment purposes... Boy, do I know how to have fun! The 3M ones that I've seen are hard

Re: Blue tape retainers

2015-06-09 Thread ben
On 6/9/2015 8:55 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: It's one of those tape collar-seals breaking spontaneously, at which point the hung reel falls to the floor and takes off across the room, generally unwinding the tape as it goes. If it is generally UNwinding the tape as it goes, the reason is exactly the

Re: Blue tape retainers

2015-06-09 Thread COURYHOUSE
wonders how long it takes the seal to decay? when in the biz had tapes on the rack for 13 years and no falling . Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 6/9/2015 7:42:06 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, bfranc...@jetnet.ab.ca writes: On 6/9/2015 8:15 PM,