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I was looking up my Renae Armand Cassette and your video showed up and i lost my coffee somehow 🤔. And that's a good idea you share with us and i had my adam ant tape get ate and all the kings horse's they had the same speed sounds warbling just like yours does i had to take the cassettes out you know stringing the tape out of the cassette then since I'm a teenager from the 80's i even have the clear 1980's bic ink pen the pattern is pretty much exactly as you know it slides right in the cassette and turn and winds the tape back in pretty fast i have two of them i find in old abandoned houses and keep your eye out for them there at second hand old good will store's. They are clear with " wellt the pen and the cassette look different but it fits just like a wrench on a bolt or something alright well see"'ya🚬🚬🚬 I m going find my coffee you say hotter than yhe pits of " geez I'm not brave enough to write🤷✍️📝.

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cool method tho

you should have a good optometrist check out your red eyes or a priest maybe

I tried this on a tape that played fine but had a lot of flutter. It fixed it!

That's awesome you have a Michael Stanley cassette. His stuff is really hard to find. I'm a Michael Stanley fan too along with Queen and Kansas. R.I.P. Michael Stanley.

I have a Heaven's Sake Kids He Is Exalted cassette. It is not XDR but it is badly distorted around the second half. I've tried lubrication on it 2 times and it's not going away.

Simply put some Permatex extra fine graphite lubricant on the felt pad and run it fast forward and reverse a few times. Works well on all tapes.

Hello Timothy I had just started getting back into cassettes after a long time and found your video intriguing. Im quite sure there's all kinds of oddball techniques to keep cassette albums going that's been lost to time and this fits in with them. I would like to see if there's a more professional grade product thats used to be in circulation to treat this type of issue common in cassettes. Its just refreshing to see people even messing with cassettes at all. Loved the XDR audio technology it really was top pairing with Dolby. Thank you for posting this video it was very insightful.

XDR is just a recording process (which is why these tapes have beeps at the start), it has nothing to do with the physical tape. There's info on wikipedia under "XDR (audio)". Any correlation with the actual tape is likely to just be the manufacturers that used the process & the time period when XDR was more common. I haven't noticed any issues with the XDR tapes I have here in NZ.

you play cassettes with bad equipment and in the car, you keep them without a case on the floor and then you wonder if they don't work anymore.

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What album was that

I have a KISS Creatures of the Night cassette im gonna try this on!

Awesome video!

Bake at 250 for 20 min. Just kidding. Funny you know MSB. Glad you could save it.

see none of my jammed tapes are hard to turn with a pen in the spool. however they seem to all jam only when in the player and being played. Some even RW/FF fine its only playing that doesn't work.

Hey Tim.. Do you still have your Galaxie?? Scott

so...I conducted the "heat treatment" on a couple of noticeably "lagging" cassettes, and I can attest to the validity of this method. It works! The added trick is to ensure that the cassette is completely "rewound" when engaging in the method, then rewind and fast forward the tape. I had a cassette that was COMPLETELY unlistenable, but once I adopted this method, it miraculously revived it! Trust Timothy's method. Don't resort to lubricant unless it's the last resort.

Maybe me is still a little slow. Any suggestions

Done this, and it worked. But when I play my cassette the next day it plays slow again… any suggestions?

Dawg the hairdryer gives life to plastic, it works. :D

The problem is with lubricity! Sure you have relieved the friction by slightly modifying the shell but the problem isn't actually fixed. The real problem is that audio tape has a film of lubricant, over time some tapes lose this after many years of storage. The biggest example is tapes made by Capital/EMI with XDR almost every one I come across has this problem. A sign your tape needs lubrication is when trying to play the tape on a known good working tape deck the tape will wow and flutter, slow down or even stop playing. ANA[DIA]LOG's channel has a video on how to relubricate a cassette.

Amazing! It worked! Thank you!

Tried your heat method and lubricant method side by side on nearly identical tapes and here's what happened: th-cam.com/video/GuNsnV2YDiI/w-d-xo.html Thanks Timothy!

I' ve just tried your hair-dryer method and I can confirm it works. I used to Fast Forward and then Rewind old tapes before playing them but that didn't do the trick for every tape. Your method works. Thanks

Hes cute

I played a home-made tape in my Camry and several tapes now sound really weird after... but not others. I played the tapes back in my Walkman and the affected tapes still have volume that goes up and down, and it's really disheartening, especially my Takeuchi Mariya import tape that cost me $50. I'll probably try this and a lubricated cleaning to see if it helps. I guess I don't have to fix my car stereo, though.

I was going to try your approach with some old tapes that slowed and stopped but it turns out that now they are playing the music just fine. After looking at your approach by using a hairdryer I think humidity on the wheels increases the resistance which causes the tapes to malfunction and by using the hairdryer the damp gets evaporated and hence restores the functionality of the tape (so no toothpick is needed)?

What model cassette player are you using in your cabinet? That thing looks sweet!! Also, i just tried your method of fixing my tapes and it worked perfect. Thank you!

Amazing! Most of 'Now's That What I Call the Music' compilations in the UK released on cassettes are terrible. They have that awful warble sound effect on them, but your tip has saved their lives! Thank you!

Hi Tim... Thanks for the ultra fast how to video. We just purchased a 68' Galaxie 500. She has the 302 V8. We need to do the brakes as well. We enjoyed the fact you were working in bare feet. We will also take off our shoes ans socks to do it correctly. Be well.

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I would like to ask, is that most of xdr tapes have such characteristics? Like they easily dry up and quite often to use lubricants to oiling them. I am trying to fix such problem on one of my xdr cassette, if you have any tips on how to lubricate them can you leave your comments? Big thanks !!!

Holy shit I just did this! I bought Michael Jackson’s dangerous and bad album and I used tweezers to spin the tapes. These cassettes are almost 40 years old and we’re both dragging on multiple tracks so I tried this just now and winded it back and forth completely on both sides and then cooled them off with the hairdryer. Then popped it back in my cassette radio and they both play perfectly. Thank you so much for this tip! I was really upset thinking they wouldn’t ever play right. Now I know how to fix it if I ever get another cassette that drags and sounds distorted like my other two did!

Holy smokes this actually works. I've destroyed a handful of tapes by accident trying to get them to play right. Just did this on a XDR tape having issues 10 minutes ago and it's playing flawlessly! I'm glad I didn't throw my hair-dryer out when male pattern baldness took my punk spikes away. Haha.

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