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For Expert Village, this is KGB Studios Seattle. I'm Kurt, the chief engineer. Welcoming you
to yet another session on 4-track reel-to-reel. O.K. so here are the tools of the trade that
you will need. As we point to them we'll try to describe them a little bit as we go. Obviously
the most important one you use for cleaning and cleaning the heads are going to be these
Q-tips. I use Q-tips. They seem to work really good. Some say they never liked them because
they left residue. I didn't have that problem at all. That's one piece. The other of course
is the cleaning kit. This has various pieces for cleaning the heads that we talked about
earlier and we'll show you, we'll demonstrate how that actually works. Magnetic tool. In
case you lose a screw. You don't want to keep that too close and we'll talk a little bit
more about the magnetism and such later. This is actually a cool little piece. I don't know
if you can get a good view of that or not, but what it is actually is a head lubricant.
It's got a Teflon type base and it works really good for lubricating the head. This is a cool
device here. This is actually for splicing the tape. Tape is a quarter inch wide here
and you actually can edit tapes that way. That's how they cut movies as well as audio
tape. This is also a splicing kit here. Made by BASF. This is a very important piece too.
This is a head de-magnetizer. This actually de-magnetizes the head and you can see here
with the tip. It's very, very light weight and small. And the last piece of course is
you definitely do need. You'll definitely need the service manual and this is the Dolcorder
8140, but it's the same electronic as the 7140. One other thing to keep in mind. I use
what they call Belt Renew. I don't know if you can see that, but that's very old. 8/85
is the date on it. Pretty amazing that it's still around. So those are the tools of the
trade of servicing a reel-to-reel machine. Join us next session as we continue.