Fisher professional tapedeck2/1/2024 ![]() just about all pre-recorded tapes will be in a welded shell. yep, safety glasses are a good idea here. the tape in the picture turned out to be made of a very brittle plastic and it just exploded its guts all over the floor. this should cause enough breakage for you to be able to carefully pull the tape apart without spilling its contents all over the floor. insert cassette into vise as pictured and squeeze till you hear the seams pop. ![]() i have tried this and impaled myself too many times. one is to use an exacto or other knife to pry your way around the seam, snapping the welds as you go. it's destroy stuff in a vise time! (who doesn't like destroy stuff in a vise time?) there's two well known ways to get into a welded shell tape. get some screwed together donor shells if you plan on fixing old tapes. even when they snap open in a clean fashion, welded shell cassettes never go back together properly no matter how much crazy glue you have. If you are going to be repairing a welded shell cassette, you will need a donor shell to move all the guts into. there's also mixtapes that were made with a personal touch that a playlist on an ipod can never come near. many of those bootleg recordings were initially made on cassette. just look at the huge online community that still swaps grateful dead recordings. lots of folks used hidden recorders to make bootleg tapes at concerts. granted the music on many tapes is available in digital form but not all. despite the advances in tech, millions of cassettes still survive as do the machines to play them on. swapping music went from being a very social activity to something as mundane as checking email. thanks to the ipod and its huge storage abilities, the mixtape has become a lost art. it's how an entire generation swapped music or impressed their partner with their ability to create a mix tape. littered around the car's glovebox, piled around a boombox, or crammed in your pocket on your way to school, cassettes were everywhere. if you were a kid of the 80's you knew them well. in this instructable we'll cover transplanting the tape from a busted shell to a good shell, how to get into a welded shell cassette, how to splice a tape, and how to fix squeals. the only items required are the tapes, a small screwdriver set, a pair of needle nose pliers is helpful, and scotch tape.* for all those folks still holding on to a cherished but broken cassette tape, here's how to properly fix the common ailments. *this instructable takes for granted that you can use basic hand tools and have good dexterity with small parts.
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