On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:09:15 +0100, Dave Plowman
wrote:

In article ,


Nice to know someone's actually found a good use for the stuff.


I was once told that in the early days of BBC sports OBs when the
slo-mos came from huge disk players (2 inch tape not being able to
play at anything but normal speed) - some bright spark found the heads
could be made to last longer by coating the disk in WD40. Maybe total
rubbish.......