When you had to perform this operation

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Transphattybase@reddit

That’s is definitely not a serious operation. How do I know?

No scotch tape present!

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classicsat@reddit

Wrong era Memorex. That is later 80s/early 0s, and they were sold at least once.

Live or Memorex was early 80s, Ella Fitzgerald. Black cassettes. I had one.

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EdwardBliss@reddit (OP)

When the tape snapped, I connected it by putting tiny scotch tape on the back so you wouldn't hear the break

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classicsat@reddit

If you had to. But you had to be careful it did't get caught in the spinning head. Audio tape was not as critical.

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classicsat@reddit

Bic Crystal pen. All over the 80s, slightly bigger dimensions to better turn a cassette hub.

Or swinging them around like a party noisemaker thingy. My tape player had a faaaaast forward though.

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BringBackHUAC@reddit

Not me my pinky finger fits just right!

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Bama2two@reddit

Pencils fixed them if you could get it out of the tape player or cassette player

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8 tracks cassettes for the win. They were fun to repair too and you could also yank on a loose tape and it would magically re-spool itself. If anyone even remembers them. Damn, I'm feeling old all of a sudden. 😁

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Garbage-Away@reddit

I got so good at this!!

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WhiteyDude@reddit

Gotta be careful not to let the tape twist on itself. There's definitely a technique involved.

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Garbage-Away@reddit

Oh for sure!! I could do it while driving..my tape deck was notorious for eating tapes..instead of fixing/ cleaning/ replacing I just got great at hearing it before point of no return and re spooling.

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doesnotexistghost@reddit

Having to learn how to use scotch tape to fix the tape when it got ate. That was hella delicate procedure

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Specific_Ad_97@reddit

So many of us figured this out on our own.

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androidguy50@reddit

Lol! So true! 😅

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theonlymrsmcd@reddit

Oh the good old days

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HoseNeighbor@reddit

I digitized a bunch of VHS a while ago, which required buying like 5 players since they're all dodgy. (Cheap as hell though!) I'd test them with other tapes I didn't care so much about. I ended up with 3 good ones, one of which secretly ate a tape on the AFTER play side. I had to snip it, cut out a short section that was completely crimped, then splice it. It was somewhere between 40 and 8 billion feet I had to respool. Maximum suck.

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