Steve Anderson wrote:Leaping ahead...my concern at this point would be the degree of drag you're gonna get with the head-to-wire contact and whether the motor is up to it (enough torque) without losing step. This is definitely uncharted waters for me.
Me to ...well i suppose its one of those things never know till you try and i will try ...i was thinking of using a hall effect sensor and amplifying that little bugger if it can detect the small amount on the wire which i just got today so will be winding the little drum to night.
A test might be to see if the sensor can detect any thing on a cassette tape swipe if not i could either pinch a head off something or make one .
With a conventional wire-recorder the wire just 'kisses' the head(s) at a shallow angle inducing very little drag
I was planning on just close as i can get but i suppose as with all the magnetic things the wear on tapes would be due to having to wipe against the head and all the rollers and things .
Thanks btw for the booklet post i was just reading it .I think i have a few of the other subjects of this booklet type but didn't have that one .
. This may be very different. I'm not trying to put a negative spin on this, just trying to think ahead as I do have an interest in this. Analogue magnetic media has been part of my family for three generations, particularly magnetic striping of movie films. Sadly it has all but vanished, in all its forms.
Magnetic recording device not something i have ever tried to make since its still easy to get one form or another but i think its worth a go just for the fun factor...
Sad its going this way i think my tapes will out live all my dvds and cds ..one scratch and you loose the lot least with a tape part can be saved....i have video discs the early LP size type i wonder if part of this analog disk was scratched the rest would still play ..i don't think optical storage is a good thing...every thing will stop working or be damaged in time but my money would be on magnetic storage lasting longer .
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