@@joel_major Best bet would be to carefully break the sealed housing apart, then transfer the tape out of that into a better (hopefully newer) screw-type housing. It can be tricky to break that old housing apart though.
I liked the video but how do you repair a cassette tape that doesn’t have screws? It’s impossible right? I have an old paper label “Santana” tape that this just happened to. It’s pretty much a conversation piece now, right? Or is it repairable?? Thanks. ✌🏼
In most cases it's not that difficult. We do this all the time. But you literally need to crack the housing open. In some cases you will destroy the housing and will need another housing to put it in. But in about 75% of tapes, you can crack it open along the seems. You can take a small screw driver and pry the two halves apart. You can start cracking it open with a small screw driver. You can pry apart the tape by using a little leverage inside the record protection holes on the top of the tape. We do this kind of repair for $10 at the Audiomover studio. www.audiomover.com
Can you help me fix my cassette, my dog bit a couple of times, the tape isn't cut, but keeps coming out, when you put it in, and press play, I think the tape duct is damaged, I rewind it back, so the tape goes back in, but it gets stuck, and stops again, you can't hear any sound, desperately want this fixed, even if I can get half the conversation back, it's an old memory of me recording with my dad, for my school support worker, when I was about 12, would be devastated, if I lost all of it, lasted about 90 minutes, both sides.
What we would do in a situation like that is just put the tape in a different housing. The dog bite could have broken something inside the housing or bent something that's keeping the tape from moving smoothly. What you described can also happen when the pinch roller and capstan aren't grabbing the tape effectively, but based on the dog bite I will assume the problem is with the tape and not the player. We don't have an instructional video for this, but you can take the tape and reels out of the housing it's currently in and put it in a new one. You can easily do that yourself relatively easily, but if you would like us to do it just send it in to Audiomover at www.audiomover.com. We charge $10 to fix something like that, plus we can digitize it for you too. We do this kind of repair all the time. We don't have "repair" listed in our order process, but we will conduct the repair if we find that it needs it.
@@pauljohnson6019 We would be happy to help. Our studio is located in St. George, Utah. 99.9% of our business comes through the mail, but if you're in the area you are welcome to come by. If not you can just ship it to the studio at Audiomover 955 North 1300 West #14 St.George, UT 84770. All of our contact information, etc. is on www.audiomover.com. If all we're doing is fixing the cassette you don't need to create an order, just mail the cassette to the studio to my attention, Robert Hadfield, with a note about this communication along with your contact information.
Hey Dave, sure. We'd be happy to help. We normally charge $15 to fix a cassette. You can send it to our studio at 955 North 1300 West, Unit #14, St. George, UT 84770
