ThePunisher wrote:
PC Paul wrote:
dave wrote:
Just a had a vhs cassette recorder rewind the cassette so well it
snapped the tape out of the cassette spindle!
Don't laugh but the only reason I was rewinding it was to make a copy
onto DVD (sigh)...
Just wondered if it's possible to "fix" the tape by dismantling the
cassette?
I'll practice on a junk one first - but any hints about how to do
this appreciated.
The tape has a some opera stuff that her indoors wants to keep (of
course)!
If the tape has been pulled off the spindle, then usually there's a
keyway in the spindle and a small plastic key which fits tightly into
it. You sandwich the tape between spindle and key to lock the end in
place.
If it's snapped the tape, then you can splice the ends together very
well by cutting them at an angle of at least 45 degrees and
overlapping the ends 10mm or so. Use a small amount of superglue to
join them, and make sure the edges are stuck down. You'll barely see
the join when you play it, it should just look like the place where
you have one recording starting over an older one.

Don't try and play it until the glue has throughly set ;-)

You don't use glue, you use tape.


If you have splicing tape. Fanc trying it with sellotape?

Superglue works exceptionally well. I've done it many times, and I have
(audio) tapes 20 years old which I repaired that way which are stll fine.

Getting a splicing kit is obviously the 'ideal' solution, but not a
whole lot better, and a lot more expensive...