In message: <[email protected]> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]> writes: : In message <[email protected]>, Dave Ackrill writes: : : >If you wanted to cheese off the instructor, you went to the roll of thin : >cotton tape, hanging on a roll on the wall, and pulled hard. The weight : >of the tape coming off the roll was enough to spin the disk, thus : >bringing more tape off, which was heavy enough to spin the roll some : >more, so more tape came off, and so on. : : This was a well know issue when manipulating the roll while splicing : audiotapes. : : The funny thing was, 2" tapes are really strong. : : We tied an old studio worktape to the trailer-hook of a friends car : when he got married. The tape unrolled flawlessly, the roll : clattered wonderfully on the cobbles, and when they turned out of : the drive-way it snagged a lamppost and brought the car to a halt : until the groom went out and cut the tape :-)
Try doing that with CDs :-) Warner _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
