Nine track tape BOT sensing foil

[Mr Ian Primus]

--- Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:

> After a recent fight with some Cipher tape drives,
> trying to boot a system, I managed to badly mangle
> the
> leader of my boot tape. Now, rewriting the tape
> isn't
> a problem, but fixing the tape is. I can cut off the
> mangled leader, but then there won't be enough tape
> left before the BOT marker. The BOT on a nine track
> is
> just a hunk of sensing foil, just like I remember
> from
> trying to repair eight track tapes (BTW, tinfoil and
> double sided tape _doesn't_ work on eight tracks).
> Rat
> Shack no longer sells sensing foil, surprise,
> surprise
> - so, does anyone know of a currently available
> solution? That metal duct work tape perhaps? I don't
> want to use anything that might risk damage to the
> heads though. Any ideas?

After a bit of googleing it looks as if the sensing
foil is still available, although it's meant for audio
use. Was that foil the same as the foil used in nine
tracks?

-Ian