In "It's always sunny", a guy states that his hobby is magnets, and it's hilarious. But for you, as I can see, it's a full on calling! I sincerely admire it.
Yes, it works. I use these all the time to erase my mini DV tapes and other tapes as well. I made a custom tape erasing stand for a Hollywood video production company using the 2 inch diameter x 1 inch thick N50 magnets and as fast as they could slide the tapes through the magnets they were virgin clean. Their engineers tested it on their machines and said it was like virgin new.
@cosminserban91 - I am not sure what the question is. I video a class I tech every monday and once I copy it off the tape I erase the tape with my magnet and use it again the next week without any problems. I am filming in HDV on a Canon XH A1 and capturing in FCP.
I have a mix of micro cassettes, 8 mm tapes and VHS.. Can i just get the larger magnet and use it for all types of tapes?? Also where do I buy the magnets from?
it is not possible because new audio and video tracks are written by the head drum. also before the tape passes through the drum, there is a full erase head that erases the data on the tape when you press record
I have developed one of these using 2 inch N50 cubes above and below any 5.25 inch or smaller hard drive and it erases them like they had never been formatted.
@SuperMagnetMan where can I purchase these magnets? I have a lot of VHS & Digital Tapes that I need to erase and this seems like a good solution for me.
I think modern hard drives store their sector information on flash memory (which you can stick in a MRI and it will still work because it is impervious to magnetism) so taking a high power magnet would simply clear all the data (including the MBR) in a way similar to running [dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda] on a linux machine. But i'm not guaranteeing it. I could test it but i don't own any high power magnets.
I recently played a vhs tape and it displayed video which I thought I recoreded over with my old fullsize camcorder camera (the carry on the shoulder type). To my excitment I tried playing that part of the video but was not able to play the portion (I thought I recorded over) a second time. I know the video that I erased is still on the tape somewhere (maybe on another area on the tape) but since it was recorded over with other video, its not playing. How can I recover the erased video?
No. They will erase the tape alright, but to properly erase analog tape so that you can make a recording on it again, you need to apply an AC magnetic field, otherwise the tape will be magnetized to a DC level, which will still have a level of high noise after the tape is rerecorded. So erasing with a magnet is perfect for destroying the information, but not for making an analog tape reusable again.
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In "It's always sunny", a guy states that his hobby is magnets, and it's hilarious. But for you, as I can see, it's a full on calling! I sincerely admire it.
Yes, it works. I use these all the time to erase my mini DV tapes and other tapes as well. I made a custom tape erasing stand for a Hollywood video production company using the 2 inch diameter x 1 inch thick N50 magnets and as fast as they could slide the tapes through the magnets they were virgin clean. Their engineers tested it on their machines and said it was like virgin new.
@cosminserban91 - I am not sure what the question is. I video a class I tech every monday and once I copy it off the tape I erase the tape with my magnet and use it again the next week without any problems. I am filming in HDV on a Canon XH A1 and capturing in FCP.
I have a mix of micro cassettes, 8 mm tapes and VHS.. Can i just get the larger magnet and use it for all types of tapes?? Also where do I buy the magnets from?
it is not possible because new audio and video tracks are written by the head drum. also before the tape passes through the drum, there is a full erase head that erases the data on the tape when you press record
Still works! excellent video
I have developed one of these using 2 inch N50 cubes above and below any 5.25 inch or smaller hard drive and it erases them like they had never been formatted.
You have to do a low level format on the drive but it should work unless something else was wrong with the drive.
@SuperMagnetMan
where can I purchase these magnets? I have a lot of VHS & Digital Tapes that I need to erase and this seems like a good solution for me.
I think modern hard drives store their sector information on flash memory (which you can stick in a MRI and it will still work because it is impervious to magnetism) so taking a high power magnet would simply clear all the data (including the MBR) in a way similar to running [dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda] on a linux machine. But i'm not guaranteeing it. I could test it but i don't own any high power magnets.
This is quite some awesome stuff you have here Super Magnet Man!
You have to keep the magnet on videotape sitting still? or need to make moves?
But am I right in saying the hard drive doesn't work anymore?
I recently played a vhs tape and it displayed video which I thought I recoreded over with my old fullsize camcorder camera (the carry on the shoulder type). To my excitment I tried playing that part of the video but was not able to play the portion (I thought I recorded over) a second time. I know the video that I erased is still on the tape somewhere (maybe on another area on the tape) but since it was recorded over with other video, its not playing. How can I recover the erased video?
Will these magnets work for audio tapes as well?
No. They will erase the tape alright, but to properly erase analog tape so that you can make a recording on it again, you need to apply an AC magnetic field, otherwise the tape will be magnetized to a DC level, which will still have a level of high noise after the tape is rerecorded. So erasing with a magnet is perfect for destroying the information, but not for making an analog tape reusable again.
Pieter Mol lol I made this comment ten years ago 😛
@@IAmGaz_ I know, but I posted it anyway for anyone's future reference ;-) Funny that you are still out there, never expected an answer!
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will using magnets on a tape damage it in any way?
It will erase the recordings on the tape but the tape is not damaged you can record on it
same thing, but it requires more passes
How about RDAT tapes
Does this really work? I don't want to buy a big powerful magnet then find out it doesn't work.
I have a magnetic hard disk and can not understand how I could erase miniDV video tape, and then new records are bad qualities. I need help .. thanks.
the cost of a big magnet
how DO governmint DOES it. I paived my voat OMABA! next thing know I AM HUNTED!! gREEAN PEAS gREEAN PEAS gREEAN PEAS gREEAN PEAS gREEAN PEAS JELLOPOPS buy GOLD. could have TOLD youuuuuuuuuuu.