RichardL wrote:

I have some open reel tapes which are suffering from shedding of
the oxide coating.

I understand that baking the tapes under certain strict conditions will
restore
them to a playable state, at least for a limted time.

Does anyone have experience of this problem and advice on how to do
such 'baking' ?

If you in an any yahoo groups you could join the reeltoreel group. I
thought there might be something in the group files on this topic but I
could not find anything. however this topic has been discussed several
times and I am sure other members will have well tried recipes for baking
old tapes.

HTH

Ian