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Old May 3rd 05, 02:05 PM
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CAINE wrote:

The scotch tape won't hurt it- but I have found that it's better to run
the pads without tape on them- they have the added benefit of cleaning
excess loose graphite off the back of the tape- which leads to better
performance. One reason why the Akai 80-81-82 and Pioneer HR-99,100
sometimes don't switch tracks or trigger the auto-stop prematurely when
the sensing foil is not there- reason is those decks have such
sensitive channel switch circuitry (a good thing actually), that the
graphite, being slightly conductive, triggers the channel switch
circuit prematurely. i.e. it will drain the Akai channel switch
capacitor, then when the sensing foil comes along, there's nothing in
the capacitor to trigger the channel switch solenoid. Running the new
pads with no tape on them, cleans the tape actually.

As far as taking up the entire space behind the tape, if you look at
the improved spring pads on some RCA, etc. cars, they have larger pads
on them that extend from the top to bottom of space in cart. Taking up
all that space is a good thing, it gives the pad more stength to hold
against the tape, rather than try to bend over and tilt upwards or
downwards.

thanks for the good press !

trip



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