AMPEX 220 demagnitiser and headcleaner

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C.Born
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AMPEX 220 demagnitiser and headcleaner

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i bought such a device on a second hand market
it ruined severall tapes becouse it contains a real magnet in side.

other cleaner tapes realy clean OR have a mini pcb
NOT this one it has a REAL MAGNET ABORD

now i wonder how many original tape were damaged by this "cleaning tape"
so what went wrong?
it has NO CLUE on the casste ;abel NOR the box that it is DANGEROUS fore your magnetic tapes
just a SIMPLE REMINDER would have alerted me... but
i did store this cassette next to the tapes, since those "belong " to each other...
and its "Non-Abrasive"

but this is not a "device"
nope
its a "magnet on a rope"
https://www.tapeheads.net/threads/ampex ... row.39243/

so do NOT store it next to your tapes
its 40 years to late to warn the original users, i bougth it ?? 10 years ago??


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex
its not mentioned any where ??
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