Erik,

I tried to email you with no luck using the address you supplied.
Could you email me your number and I'll give you a call.
.

I had to send the heads back to John so he could tweak the erase head.
I will have it back and test it over the weekend. With any luck I'll
be okay with everything. I will post with my final results, but the
erase problem may have to do with a slight difference in 800 and 827
transports.

Someone mentioned the different MRL tapes. I'd have to look at the
charts to see if 1K is much different. I use that and 10K, so I don't
know if fringing will effect me too much. Other than some compensation
issues, there is nothing unique between tapes. The MRL is recorded as
if it were one giant track (hmmm...what would that sound like), so
there is no issue with cross-talk as someone had asked.

Again, thank you all for your comments.

Dennis DeCamillo