Steve, got my 2 track cleaned up, adhesive from placing a wonky piece of sensing foil on the inside (head side) of the tape, had to clean up the adhesive in several spots, then the splice had to be removed, once again the material (splicing tape) was on the inside, and adhesive was leaking around the edges, cut that part out and put in a new splice, not much more music lost than a typical tape dropout. I next went to tackle reel 1 of Wagner's Die Walkure (solti) I thought I had several adhesive spots that was causing the tape to pop, in fact, on the 1500 it would actually cause the machine to stop! But it wasn't adhesive, instead, it was poorly slitted tape, it was running wide at several areas and catching in the guides and the tape reel itself, first time I have ever seen that! And obviously this reel is unusable. Thank the gods for my Otari MTR-10, it make working on tapes so easy...