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That box of old tapes

Cassettes, camcorder tapes, maybe some mold and a player that won't spin. Most of it is saveable, and the voices in that box are worth the weekend.

  1. What to Do With That Box of Old Cassette Tapes Sort the box into three piles first. The home recordings get digitized before anything else.
  2. Converting Cassette Tapes to Digital (the Honest Ladder) Three ways, honestly laddered, and every one of them runs in real time.
  3. Converting Camcorder Tapes to Digital (the Format Maze, Solved) Three different jobs depending on the tape. The $15 adapter happy path, named.

Rescue and repair

vhs tape mold: what's cleanable and what isn't VHS Tape Mold: What's Saveable and How Not to Spread It White spots on the shell clean off; mold in the wound tape is usually gone. Never feed a moldy tape to a good VCR. cassette player repair: belt symptoms and the seven dollar fix Cassette Player Repair: It's the Belt (About 90% of the Time) Won't spin, or plays slow and warbly? It's the belt about 90% of the time, a $5 to $10 part.