🔸 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! 🎶📼
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.
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This is the procedure for restoring old 8-track cassettes by replacing the pressure pad and metal tape (also called "splice"). First, start by identifying what type of cassette you have and familiarizing yourself with how to open it without causing unnecessary damage to the cassette housing/cartridge or tape. Start by opening the cassette….
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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