[Vintage-Audio] Equipment For Sale

[Roy Morgan]

At 04:17 PM 11/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Never having had a reel-to-reel machine, Duane, I don't know for sure what 
>a "hub" is. Is it the 'thing' that holds the reels on?

Normal tape reels have a small hole in the center like a reel of movie 
film.  Maybe one quarter inch or 5/16 inch in diameter.  Professional tape 
reels have a three-inch hole in the middle (I'm guessing on the diameter of 
the hole). The "hubs" that Duane is talking about mount on the small 
spindle and accept the large-hole reels.  Most home-oriented tape decks 
cannot mount the 10 inch reels because there is no room for them. The Revox 
can, and most Ampex and other such machines can also.


Roy

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