At 3:46 PM +0100 5/9/02, Stephen P. Goodman wrote: >Remembering back 20 years or so, I remember that one of the problems with >tape splicing was the static charge on the blade used or something, such >that a pop would occur at the splice-point. I suspect that may have been magnetization of the blade. You can degauss the blade or just use a new one. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz