Pressure Roller of Reel-to-Reel Recorder

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For Expert Village, I'm Kurt, chief engineer at KGB Studios. We're continuing our series on How To Restore A 4-Track Reel-to-reel tape machine. All right. Here we go. We're going to go ahead and clean the pressure roller at this point. What I tend to do is I just kind of spin it with my fingernail. I'm careful not to touch the rubber. I don't want to contaminate anything. So as you see, I'm making the up-down motion, and going around--and I spin it with my finger. I don't press extremely hard, but I do give it a little bit of moderate pressure. That's something that you'll want to do as well. That saturates the roller, and I make sure that it's nice and saturated with the water. And that will again, soak in, and we definitely have everything: the tape paths, the tape heads, the erase heads and the capstan is cleaned out as well. So that's how all of that is done. Join us next time as we start the next process which is head demagnetization. This is KGB Studios for Expert Village. Thanks. Bye.

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