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- From: ajeans@hplred.HPL.HP.COM (Albert Jeans)
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:28:20 GMT
- Subject: Re: Tape rewinder (Re: Tape snapped at beginning of tape)
- Message-ID: <40001@hplred.HPL.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
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- >>In some VCRs the tape is in contact with the heads anytime the tape is
- >>in the machine, including during rewinding and fast-forward. I have done
- >>repairs on a few VCRs and only 2 of them did not have the tape in
- >>contact with the heads during rewinding.
- True, but perhaps the tape is not under normal tension when it is being
- rewound.
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