[rescue] QIC Tape Archival

[Dave McGuire]

On 12/4/24 15:32, Patrik Schindler via rescue wrote:
>> If there is resistance then the drive band is likely glued to the oxide layer which is bad news and will likely snap as soon as your steamer tries to read it.
> 
> I have never observed this. The band is plastic and not rubber, als often stated erroneously. With age, elasticity is lost. It does not decompose and stick to the magnetic tape itself, as rubber would do. Is this something you have observed yourself?

   Pardon me for jumping in, but I have observed this directly, many 
times.  The drive band ends up glued to the surface of the tape. 
Sometimes droplets of liquid (plasticizer?) are visible on the drive 
band when this occurs.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA