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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.