Re: [ARSCLIST] Dumb VHS question

[Paul Eisloeffel <pje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brandon,

Turn the VHS cassette upside down so you're looking at the underside.  Hold 
it with the "door" at the top.  You'll see the hubs of the two reels. 
Between the reel hubs and a little bit down, there's a hole about 1/4" in 
diameter.  Stick a pen or something in there, and it will release the 
tension on the reels and they'll both turn freely.

Good luck!

Paul Eisloeffel
Curator of Visual and Audio Collections
Nebraska State Historical Society
1500 R Street
Box 82554
Lincoln, NE  68501
402.471.4750
Fax 402.471.8922
pje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.nebraskahistory.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon Burke" <burke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:32 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Dumb VHS question


All,

I need to use our magnetic viewer on a VHS tape featuring nothing but
analog audio information. Consequently, i need to pull some slack out
of the
cartridge in order to lay at least a couple inches flat on a Lab
table. My problem
is that i can't seem to pull any slack from the cartridge without
creating undue
stress on the tape. And obviously i don't want to risk stretching out
the tape just
to get a viewer reading. How do i free up the mechanism that's
keeping the tape
"locked" into the cartridge?

Apologies if this is a dumb question, i don't deal with VHS
particularly often.

Hope everyone's having a great day.

thanks,
Brandon.



____________________________________
Brandon Burke
Archivist for Recorded Sound Collections
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6010
vox: 650.724.9711
fax: 650.725.3445
email: burke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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