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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
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>>>>> Question: Does acetone disolve backup tape?
> No idea what's it's made of. Some sort of extremely thin yet absurdly
> strong plastic, but beyond that I couldn't say.
See below.
>
>> What happens if you lift the backup tape out of the acetone? Is the
>> material floppy?
>
> The spool is developing a kind of "cracked earth" pattern on its surface,
> and there's some ferric oxide floating in the liquid now. But beyond that,
> the spool and tape both seem as rock-solid as ever.
Could you lift that ferric oxide out with a magnet?
>
> Perhaps I need to actually unwind the tape from the spool. That'll take a
> seriously long time though; IIRC, there's about 8 km of tape in there! o_O
Ah, I see. I've never seen one of these tapes so thought it was either
like a camera film or something more solid like a plastic disc. I would
imagine that if you unravel it, it would dissolve far quicker.
~Steve~
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