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We had a pint sized squirt bottle of freon beside the RCA TR-7's at my first job in TV. When a clog occurred, I'd squirt a shot of freon across the spinning heads. I miss those 2 machines. We got a trio of Ampex VR-5000's that gave far-less trouble.
Just before I left TV, I screened all the 2" commercial spots on an older Ampex machine. I also had to work loading a never-satisfied computer in the same room... green screen monitor... I hated it, and left happily. I can still hear the heads screaming in my ears to this day!!
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