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Re: [ARSCLIST] stuck tape
At 9:40 -0400 15/6/05, Christina Hostetter wrote:
I hope that someone might have a solution for this problem. This
morning I am having my intern copy oral history tapes to make service
copies for research and to send off for transcription and while she was
dubbing one of the tapes in the high speed dubbing machine it stopped.
At that point the copy rewound but the original wouldn't budge. I
pulled it out of the machine and tried to manually advance or reverse
the tape but it is completely stuck as if all of the tape melted
together at that one spot. The tape will rewind but it will not go past
that one spot so half of the tape is usable and the other half is just
stuck. Any suggestions on how to salvage this tape? Is it salvageable?
I recently had a problem like that and I discovered, on opening the
cassette case, that the tape was looped around the source core as a
single circuit (that is, there were two joins and so the tape could
not unwind). I solved it by cutting and splicing. As it happens, mine
was at the leader, so I lost no content. You might want to open up
the case (have a spare on hand, if needed) and look at the tape where
it is stuck.
Barbara Need
Manager (SS4)