...actually, this article is more to the point - http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/may96/salvagearchives.html

Aside from baking the tape, the other benefit of a service such as FX is that they have a wide range of tape machines, kept well maintained and the skill to line them up and calibrate everything. I'm sure there will be someone equivalent in LA with the experience to do this, but it is worth going to the experts.