--- Forwarded Message from Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:17:16 -0700 >From: Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #9316.3 (!) Repair of broken video tape >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> 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 Internet: [log in to unmask] *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************