Lube Heads for Reel-to-Reel Tape 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 four track reel to reel tape machine. And here we go with the next step. Ok, well we're going to start now. Here's our trusty Q-tips here of course, our head and our lubricant and that's what we're going to start with doing right now. Ok, again we're going to use the same process as we did with cleaning, we're going to be using this. We just dip it in, we just dip it into here. And, we dab a little of it, it turns kind of blue, and we go across the heads like in this manner here. I basically just go up and down and around the heads and again, you're only doing the heads this time. See if I can get a little bit to the side shot, there you go. And I'm just going over the head very slowly, very methodically and over the tape path here and here, and then over the erase heads and over this tape path there. Other than that I really don't do too much in terms of the capstan or anything like that. I don't put that lubricant because we want that to grab a hold of the tape. This minimizes the tape catching on anything, slowing down or changing speed. The whole consistent thing is to keep the tape going at a very consistent speed. And that's the head lubricant. Join us next time.

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