Cassette tapes!
This is an S&B question, but I figure you guys will know :B I hooked up my S&B stereo for the first time in several years. Put in a cassette tape and it was promptly eaten. Put in another (foolis...
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wa8yxm wrote:
I would feed your cassette a cleaning tape or two. If it eats them you will hae to dissassemble for manual cleaning.
Then I'd feed it some "Junk" tapes to make sure it's no longer hungry.
I have and if you are in Eastern lower MI perhaps we can get together a USB tape player.. add audacity (SP?) and you can make your cassettes into MP3 or even CD
I have been repairing A/V equipment for yrs, I have never found any evidence that a "cleaning" tape has any capability to "fix" any cassette player.
The OPs player NEEDS A REBUILD OF BELTS AND IDLERS along with some TLC with light lubricant on the correct places.
Over time the belts get gummy and or stretch and the only way to fix is to REPLACE them.
A "cleaning" tape cannot affect worn, stretched belts or hardened idlers, it only "wipes" the surface of the head with a SAND PAPER LIKE MATERIAL and even that is a stretch to say that works.
A REAL audiophile uses rubbing alcohol or a liquid head cleaner and swabs to properly clean the heads. I never bought or owned tape head cleaners..
OP could most likely get their deck repaired, there are a few diehard repair shops that are still repairing, just have to dig them up..
If the OP were to get their deck repaired, they CAN simply PLUG the deck into the LINE IN jack of their computer and make all the recordings they want to..
Computer sound cards can do a fair job at recording and it is built into the PC so no cost there.
