How to simply repair an 8-track tape -splice techniques for tape echo or regular 8 track tapes
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2021
- A quick example of how to repair a broken 8 track tape. Check out #vintageaudionagoya for many more demos and tips and reverb.com/shop/vintageaudion... for tape echos and other rare music equipment. Like roland re-201, teisco, kastam, elk, evans, guyatone, boss etc.
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Good video. Screw fastened 8 Tracks are mostly on some older 8 Track Brands and not as common as Tab fastened which were cheaper to make.
When replacing a broken splice I try not to cut off any tape near the splice and instead use the side edge of a razor to scrape off the old glue and loose tape oxide to get a durable and residual free surface for the tape to adhere to.
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You broke an 8-track cassette tape just for us.😄
Thanks for the tutorial.
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Here's another good tidbit I learned last night:
If you happen to purchase an 8-track tape that is new old stock or still factory-sealed, _check the splice before sticking it in your player._ Even if the tape looks brand new because it was sealed, the splice will still dry up over time, and of course since it was sealed for 40+ years that naturally means *none* of the previous owners maintained the tape. I ran into this issue last night and ended up having to toss out a blank tape I bought for recording, because I didn't think to check the splice on it first. Thankfully I managed to get it out of my player, but the tape didn't survive. >.
Yeah, good tip and true. I've had a few do it too. Almost right away. Best to do them when you get them.
Question how do you easily check the splice?
@@kiwicory100 If the tape's play position isn't close to where the splice is, I'll usually just stick it in my player and wait until the last song on the program is over, then pull it out and sorta feed it across by hand. Eventually you will see the splice and then you can establish whether it's good or not. o:
This was really helpful- thank you!
Great Peter, any questions come up just ask. thanks
Thanks Mark, I'm hoping this info will help me resurrect a Freddy Fennder tape I love. 🙏
Hopefully you can have more wasted days and wasted nights.
What I used to do was grab scotch tape and put the scotch on the bottom part of the foil tape and that tape has lasted me 43 years and I have replaced the tape 4 or 5 times
Nice work!
Hi can you remove the metal spring then change it to normal pad only
Yes, no problem. Little pieces of weatherstripping with adhesive on the back work great. Good luck. Keep rocking the 8 tracks
Do you lose sections of song when doing tape repairs? I'm new to 8-track/cassette tapes so wasn't sure how that worked hah.
Yeah, this is a repair for an echo machine tape so it doesn't matter but if you repair a pre-recorded tape try to preserve as much tape as possible, because you will lose some of the song.
Actually some of four songs because there are 4 songs on the same section of tape.
I explain this in detail in a few other videos on 8 track machines, on my channel.
I bought cartidges, but two of them broke during playback. I connected them with the intended tape. But when the fourth track is supposed to end, it goes back two songs and plays again. It will start again at the point of gluing. How is it possible?
If you used metallic tape it tells the machine to change tracks when that metallic tape meets the play head. You can use regular, clear, scotch tape on the back of the magnetic tape to join a break.
@@Vintageaudionagoya Thank you. I already found out that there must be a metal tape to cross the tracks. I used aluminum foil for some, but I already bought self-adhesive metal tape. And thanks for your great video too.
Clear tape vs silver splicing tape???? Logic?
The silver tape will trigger the auto shut off on the deck
Don't know about the auto-shutoff on say, cassette decks or 8-track deck's, silver vs clear, but I do know the silver/gold foil conductor splice tape has to be replaced with the same foil type, gold or silver in order to allow the tracks/channels to change from one to another. A mid type break, not sure. Peace.. I saw a guy cut a piece of aluminum foil once on an 8-track tape because he did not have a gold/silver splice tape. Hat's off to Craig over at CraigTube AKA Craigs Dungeon. Good tutorial ua-cam.com/video/oUtilrU4k7g/v-deo.html