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In Reply to: RE: at those prices they had better.... posted by Myles B. Astor on February 25, 2018 at 10:50:12
...machined instead of stamped.
Yet the review does not address my concern in my initial post. "Spin true on all axes." Even so, and at that price I'd expect it.
Having been a machinist for a significant part of my life, and also as a mechanical inspector for another part, I do have some insight into the various processes that machining can take. Machining aluminum does not by itself guarantee that the metal will not warp as part of the process. Nor does it guarantee automatically a high degree of accuracy. It is the machinist, and also the integrity of the process taken, that ensures those things and it isn't always easy to accomplish....though often enough everything works out within drawing requirements.
All that huffing and puffing and chest beating aside (:^) I do like the overall look of the product and can understand the high price. It's a cool idea; custom take-up reels. I also monitor the price of used 10-1/2 inch take-up reels on ebay. And I own a few. They are collectible, command a significant price, and when you get one you -do- see some warp and run-out on all axes....which is why I bring it up.
If they sent me one I'd review it including an inspection report for dimensions and runout.
-Steve
Follow Ups:
I did compare it's spinning to a dynamically balanced car tire. 😉
Myles B. Astor
"I did compare it's spinning to a dynamically balanced car tire.
Myles B. Astor "
"Next, the Reeltronix packs tape far better than my J-corder Technics style reels and spins like a dynamically balanced car wheel."
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yeah. For me the 'packs tape far better' comment is useful.....and it does relate to true spinning in all axes as I wanted to know. Off-axis spinning would not pack tape as well as true spin. It describes what is needed.
re: nickel plate with two different surface roughness...the expense of mfr really does add up. Platers have the epa nipping at their heels all the time and need to provide a very controlled and often audited environment. Then there are the high electricity costs involved.
-Steve
If you're just going to use this pricy thing as a TAKE-UP reel, you'll need one for every tape in your collection. Think about it. Once it's full of tape you have to off-load it to another reel for storage, don't you? At which point the beauty of its perfect tape pack is, or may be, lost. What am I missing here?
well let's assume the primary use is for playing back 2-track master dupes, such as those from Tape Project and the others. Storage is tails out. So the fancy take up reel is placed on the left table and the tape to be played is rewound onto the fancy reel. Then played. After play the expensive 2-track is on its own take up reel and ready for long term storage. So the fancy reel was used to feed the play and is now empty again.
Of course this is an exercise in imagination since I don't have too many 2-track tapes.
-Steve
I grant all your points, but the tape ends up on whatever crummy reel it started out on.
That's really no big deal since they're not all that crummy, but basically you're buying the pricy one for its looks and some of us like the looks of the crummy ones better. If you're like me, you just check out all your empty reels -- or ones that can be made empty -- to find one that is straight and true and use that one as your feed reel.
Unless, again, I'm missing something.
that sounds reasonable. And completely workable, since it has been the standard practice since before I can remember...I think.
And you're right, not all of the crummy reels are all that crummy.
-Steve
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