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Re: [ARSCLIST] Cassette surgery -- paging Dr. Hess
I've seen them spliced with band-aids (the old cloth type..at least the gauze
part wasn't included).
dl
Steven Smolian wrote:
> My favorite, all time, was a reel-to-reel spliced with duct tape. I
> actually saw it. Didn't work.
>
> Steve Smolian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Cassette surgery -- paging Dr. Hess
>
> > Robert Hodge wrote:
> >
> >> I'll bet it got interesting when they tried to fuse the splice with a
> >> cigarette. Doubly malodorous !
> >
> > This reminds me of some of the weird things I used to turn up when picking
> > up cheap videocassettes at
> > flea markets.....ends spliced together with half-inch splicing tape (never
> > in a straight line), tapes
> > threaded backwards etc. Mind you, I once bought new VHS tapes in Detroit
> > and brought them home, only to
> > find that one (a Scotch) had separated at the leader. Not exactly
> > something I could easily take back to
> > the store.
> >
> > dl
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> >>> angie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1/30/2006 9:56 AM >>>
> >> Richard L. Hess wrote:
> >> > At 07:32 PM 1/29/2006, Tom Fine wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I actually received one of those to transfer where the tape had been
> >> > repaired by KNOTTING it - a square knot...or maybe even a granny knot.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >
> >> > Richard
> >> >
> >>
> >> Their first machine must have been a wire recorder. :-)
> >>
> >> Angie Dickinson Mickle
> >> Avocado Productions
> >> Arvada, CO
> >> www.avocadoproductions.com
> >>
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