Hi Anton. Pelon is a cleaning tissue that comes on a roll (2" wide). It kinda reminds me of lens cleaning tissue. It does contain some lubricants that's supposed to help a little with LOL but not much. It's pretty cheap and can be had from US Recording Media;
http://usrecordingmedia-store.stores.yahoo.net/
I know I've read some info specific to LOL and I'll see if I can dig it up. If so, I'll post it here.
Some of the smaller outfits that had releases on R2R used some very funky tape. Can you tell if it's an acetate backed tape? (you can see light through the side of the reel if you hold it up to a light)
Hi Ironbut.
I wipe all used tapes with cotton disc with few drops of izopropyle alcohol, it helps to remove dust, metal particles (on used pre-records I found a lot of metal particles, maybe from heads/guides??), and tobacco residue. It absolutely necessary for low speed 3 3/4 ips tapes. Without wet wiping this tapes had a lot of dropouts.
My experience shows, that 3 3/4 ips tapes collect a lot more dust than 7 1/2 ones.
Recently, I get pre-record "Blind Faith", seems one of previous owners love to smoke a LOT, label almost YELLOW, I run wiping for FIVE TIMES to remove all visible tobacco residue sticked to a dust.
My tapes with LOL is a polyester tape, some old russian tapes fabricateb by "Tacma" factory (polyester, black oxide) affected to LOL too.
Thank's for information about Pelon, I try to get some and try, but US Recording Media ship to USA only :-(
P.S. Sorry for my poor english.