At 06:02 PM 8/11/98 -0700, Tom Cole wrote: >Z! and Susan, > >Ditto your comments re bombproof Panasonics. <snip> >Susan, you mentioned that you replaced the message tape every 1 or 2 >years. I wonder if you really need to, as long as the speech quality is >okay. My 10-year-old machine still sounds fine with its original tape >which, admittedly, is now running on the "B" side. If your sound quality >is getting poor, you might try cleaning the heads with alcohol and >cotton swabs. I didn't do it because of poor sound quality, Tom. Rather, I felt that the tape itself was bound to weaken under such heavy use. I remember what can happen to tapes used in car cassette decks, and how they tangle up eventually. So this was just preventive, so they wouldn't break and tangle down the road. May be overkill, though. Susan
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