[BC] Cassette deck maintenance

[Glen Kippel]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Tom Dimeo <am at pa321.net> wrote:
>I got to thinking about this maintenance question and came up
>with this idea.  The answer is to have a cassette loaded with
>white tape.  The tape can be marked with, let's say, a red
>line at 1.75 inches, a green line at 3.5 inches, a blue line
>at 5.25 inches, a yellow line at 7.0 inches and a black line
>at 8.75 inches and the process could be repeated for thirty
>or forty-five minutes.  Then all you need is a good stopwatch
>and a good eye.

>Perhaps I've been spending too much time in the classroom of
>Mr. Osenkowsky?

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Yeah, you definitely have.  In Olden Tymes I would just put an alignment tape in the machine and look at the output with a frequency counter.  A lot faster that way.