Author: Tor-Atle Kindsbekken

I’ve spent a few lovely summer evenings restoring these classic Beatles tapes. Now fully cleaned and restored with new splice and pad, ready for many more spins.

All old 8-track tapes need a bit of restoration before they’re playable again. In this post, we walk you through the entire process with a detailed step-by-step guide and instructional video: cleaning, pressure pad replacement, sensing foil splice removal and replacement, and final reassembly.

🔸 Ready for a nostalgic look back? We're unboxing two amazing 8-track cassettes featuring the legendary Björn Skifs and Blue Swede! Hooked on a feeling – and on 8-track, of course! 🎶📼

This is a thorough walkthrough of how to repair the plastic bracket that holds the sound head on 8-track players with the infamous plastic construction. In this example, we are working with a Realistic TR-169 player, but the procedure is largely the same on all players with a similar mechanism. This process can also be used as a preventative…

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Join us for a first test and start-up of a new-old 8-track player of the type Realistic TR-169 (Model 14 935 TR-169). This model was produced until 1990 and is one of the very last models on the market for easy playback of 8-track cassettes.