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Chrissy · Guest

I have a tape of a radio drama I did back in the dark ages. I played the part of Annie Sullivan at three stages of her life. Anyways... When I played it on my daughter's tape deck, I didn't realize that it was sick and it pulled the tape off of the spool. Is there ay place I can send it to make it well again. I really want to get it on a CD for when I become famous in the near future or before I become senile (which ever comes first)!!!!
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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject:

It's a cassette?

If the tape didn't break, just about any production joint can dub it to CD. They'll have to get some flunky to use the Bic Pen Wind-Up treatment on the cassette and it may sound warbly in places, but it's not a total loss.
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Chrissy · Guest

Yes it's a cassette. The beginning of the tape didn't break but got pulled off.

imaginator · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:55 pm Post subject:

you can unscrew the cassette casing, or if it's not that design, crack the plastic (slowly and carefully) and re-attach the recording tape to the hub. i use splicing tape, but if you're never going to play the tape again after you make your CD, you could get away with regular adhesive tape.

then put the pieces back together, making sure the tape is going through the tape path correctly and the pressure-pad is in place. if you've got the kind of cassette shell without screws, you just tape the thing back together long enough to make your copy. i've done lots of these.

be sure you work on a large table top with good light. some of those little pieces can be murder if they get away from you.

if we weren't so far apart, geographically, i'd tell you to bring it on over and i'd do it for you free. i would imagine you wouldn't want to trust it to the mail, since it's your only copy.
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:20 pm Post subject:

If it is indeed the kind of cassette you have to crack open rather than unscrew, I recommend you also locate a cassette that does come apart with screws and that you can sacrifice. Unscrew it, discard the tape, then put the tape you wish to salvage into the now empty screw-type body and screw it back together.

(I realize that, after all this, "screw it" may turn out to be the operative phrase.)
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Chrissy · Guest

I appreciate these suggestions but trust me when I say that I'm not good at this type of delicate operation. It's best if I send it some where.

Bruce · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:30 pm Post subject:

I used to repair those all the time. I've sent you an email offering to fix and dub off a CD copy.

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Don G. · King's Row Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1071 Location: MA

Just noticed this, Chrissy.

If you haven't already sent it off to Bruce, I'd be willing to take a crack at it. I have a session in Watertown on Wednesday and could probably swing by afterwards and pick it up. Then I could return it and your CD on my way to 'GBH on Friday or Sunday

Let me know.