[ARSCLIST] Cassette surgery -- paging Dr. Hess

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Richard Hess:

I ask this on a public forum because I bet I'm not the only one who can learn from you. If I'm 
asking for a trade secret, I apologize.

I have here a pair of cassettes in the molded-together housings (not the screw-together housings) 
which need to be transplanted because they do not play even with a Tascam tractor-drive transport. I 
am relatively sure it's the old worn out skid pads or warped housing problem, not a tape problem. I 
pulled a little tape out to look at it and it's not sticky, oozy or flakey. I fortunately have some 
C-0 screw-together cases.

How would you proceed? complete brain surgery or splice and hand-wind into the C-0? If the latter, 
any tips to make 90 minutes of tape go faster?

-- Tom Fine