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Jimbo3,
Here's a source for mylar tape:

http://www.mccormicksnet.com/mccormicks/tapes.htm

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and look for "Mylar Streamers". The 1/2" wide size used by Teres/Redpoint/Galibier owners costs <$5 for a 100' roll and it comes in colors! Make sure your motor pulley is wide enough before you choose a size.

For cutting the ends and getting them square I bought a VCR tape splicer. It's never been out of the box. I found I can do an excellent job with a new #11 Xacto blade, a straightedge and a clean, flat working surface. It helps to be nearsighted, and no caffeine!

Some people use VCR splicing tabs but I've had better results with 1 mil x 2" clear 3M shipping tape. My splicing tabs always seemed to separate after awhile. My shipping taped belt is as good as the day I made it, seven or eight months ago.

If 1/2" black mylar will suit, I'll gladly make a belt up and ship it to you. Let me know the length you want if you're interested. Like Cello, my 100' roll should be enough for several lifetimes.

4yanx,
Don't forget to include a CDP behind that double blind, and maybe a live band too! ;-)

Psychicanimal,
I'm right with you on complex, full orchestral tuttis for exposing stylus drag. Massed violin tones will expose speed irregularities caused by big percussion hits, brass blasts, etc.

No offense taken that you can't visualize a table like mine or Thom's being thoroughly resistant to stylus drag. No reasonable man would take offense at another man's lack of imagination! <;-)

Gotcha covered. For everything you needed to know about tape splicing, sources for Mylar, etc.

Check my support page at:

http://www.galibierdesign.com/support.html

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier

Nothing is perfect. Mother Earth, for example has a resonant frequency of about 7.8 Hz if I remember my numbers correctly.

Steel girders are elastic. Tape drive being perfectly rigid? You get the picture ... just a better approximation we all hope.

We're all just about hunting down these demons in ways we consider pracitcal but that others would consider to be madness.

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier