We've been repairing our own VHS cassettes for years (not that it happens all THAT often). The first time we had a tape detach, I took the lid off a cassette that I didn't care about to see how it worked (and especially how the tape was threaded) and then took the one I wanted to save apart, threaded the tape back through the front of the cassette, used some splicing tape to reattach it to the spool (lately, of course we just use regular tape) and screwed the cassette back together. Unless it's a commercial cassette that had been glued together at the seams, just removing the screws will let you take the cassette apart. It's not tough! Ciao for now, Sue Dr. Sue E. K. Otto Director, Language Media Center Adj. Associate Professor, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese and International Programs 120 Phillips Hall University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242-1323 Phone: 319-335-2332 Fax: 319-335-2990 Email: [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]) ***********************************************