Serious responses ONLY. Any and ALL in ADVICE is truly appreciated. I'm trying to fix a burnt tape a listen information on it. How can you go about fixing this. This is urgent. Thanks loads and God Bless!
2007-01-09 16:31:14 · 7 answers · asked by ione_thestar1 4 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Yeah, you can do that. I used to have a government job working with those large tape reels, and we were taught to splice the tape that way. Just line up both sides of the tape, cut it at a 45 degree angle with sharp scissors, and make sure you put the sticky tape on the back of the magnetic tape. Oh and don't overlap the ends. Put them as close as possible together.
I believe they make special splicing tape that's very thin for this.
2007-01-09 16:41:39 · answer #1 · answered by Terisu 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can. I have done this many times back when cassettes were mainly used. It's best to take the cassette apart (if it has screws) and lay both reels side by side. Then try cut each end with something like a razor so you have two straight edges. Line the edges up side by side or overlap no more than 1 mm. Cut the scotch tape to the width of the tape and try to use the absolute bare minimum tape needed to hold the pieces together (say 1mm by 1mm). The tape head (the square piece of metal that touches the tape when you push play button) simply attempt to read the voice data thats encoded, magnetically, on the tape. When the piece with the scotch tape passes the head, the voice will cut off or sound distorted for a second, but return to normal. Tape is slightly more abrasive than the tape, but it only hits the head for 1 second. I've never had a tape deck go bad and I've always had at least one good tape (for the car stereo back in the 90's) that needed a repair.
The hardest part of the whole repair is to pay attention to the way the tape goes around the reels inside the cassette, so pay attention when you take it apart. But on the other hand, you could just leave it in the cassette and pull some slack from both ends and repair it, then rewind the reel with your finger until it takes up slack.
Just remember, that if you can not easily wind the reel with your finger (while making the repair cross the open area of the tape, then you need to try again. A repaired tape will always move easily when its inside the reel, but if you get the scotch tape too thick, then it can get stuck and be hard to move across the open end of the cassette. So watch the scotch tape move back and forth, on the open end of the cassette. Make sure it doesn't get stuck. If it does, start over, cut off the extras, and use less scotch tape. Don't use glue. Back in the 80's when they had reel to reel tape players (the big reels that looked like the computer tapes of the 80's computers) they sold splicing kits at radio shack. It had a roll of sticky tape (basically scotch tape on a reel cut to the same width as the tape). It was common practice to cut and splice your tape together and use that sticky tape thing to join the two sides of the reel.
2007-01-10 00:47:53 · answer #2 · answered by SharpGuy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Burnt?
I have used very small pieces of scotch tape to splice broken tapes. It works great except that you just hear no sound exactly where the tape is. You can do that.
I'm not sure what you mean by placing scotch tape "in between" so I don't know if this is exactly what you need to know.
Perhaps you could find an audiovisual store in your area and they ca advise you.
I hope you figure it out.
2007-01-10 00:40:06 · answer #3 · answered by drshorty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That might work, but you can get repair tape for casettes from Radio Shack. It will still make a pop or click when it goes over the record heads, but it's the right width for casette tape, and it's a lot easier to deal with. You can also get a small device that will cut the broken tape at an angle, so as to make the repair easier. I honestly don't know what it's called, but my ex used to do recordings on reel-to-reel equipment, and he used the stuff a lot.
2007-01-10 00:41:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!!! i did that before but it skip to much. A better way is to use nail polish it doesnt skip as much and it's more easy than using tape. Any color will do so enjoy ^_^
2007-01-10 00:40:16 · answer #5 · answered by A Flower for a SIn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im not so sure if scotch tape will work.. you could try though. try taking it to a place that sells antique type electronics. good luck ;]
2007-01-10 00:38:09 · answer #6 · answered by ShaunnaMonna ♂♥♀ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i tried that before... it helped keep the tape together... but unfortunately the song skipped at that part... it couldn't read it..
2007-01-10 00:35:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋