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>Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:17:16 -0700
>From: Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>Subject: Re: #9316.3 (!) Repair of broken video tape
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I've done this dozens of times, which may make it seem easier to me 
than it would to someone doing it the first time.  In any event, the 
tape cassette can be opened by removing five Phillips screws from the 
bottom of the cassette, with a #1 or #0 Phillips screw driver.  Then, 
flip the cassette over, and remove the top half.  Removing the bottom 
half will spill a few parts.

On the hub of one reel, there is a small clip that holds the end of the 
tape.  If the break is on or near the leader, it is pretty easy to 
remove the clip, discard the short piece of tape, and reconnect the end 
of the main tape part.  Or mend with Scotch tape, as Otmar mentioned.

I would encourage the person in need to try this themselves.  Try it 
first on a blank cassette, or an old one that no one cares about.  Once 
a person is comfortable with assembly and disassembly, then move on to 
the family heirloom cassette.

This is a five minute job for me, and I would think it could be done in 
fifteen minutes by someone handy trying it for the first time.  If 
there is damage to some other parts of the cassette mechanism, a tape 
reel transplant is also easy to accomplish.  With an appropriately 
matched donor cassette, organ rejection is very rare.

Derek

Derek Roff
Language Learning Center
Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885
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