r/80sAmazing • u/MisterShipWreck • 1d ago

Panic setting In...

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u/MikeDude68 1d ago

Where’s my #2 pencil ?!😎

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u/Gonzo_Silverback 45m ago

Lo! Nice pen and good wrist strength

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u/Objective_Watch3097 1d ago

The real panic was when you couldn’t get it out of the tape player.

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u/memberbarry80 1d ago

A couple times mine got twisted *somehow* and I had to take the case apart to untwist it.

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u/Wooden_Big_3864 12h ago

See, when that happened to me I always just went to K~Mart and stole a new one.

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u/PortOfPotty 1d ago

Imagine the crushing agony when you go into your car in the summer and find all your tapes in the shoebox, melted and warped from heat.

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u/AbbreviationsKey9563 1d ago

A #2 pencil to wind the tape back into place, place into tape deck, then listen to the crinkled part of the tape before it sounds normal again.

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u/ddigwell84 21h ago

Get a pencil or Bic pen and start spinning

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u/Healthy-Confection66 1d ago

This is the point in life I found out what sharpies were also used for lol

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u/Hmmmm-curious 1d ago

lol, for real

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u/Fit_Dealer7498 1d ago

Time to untangle or tape to fix

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u/TechnSound7466 1d ago

Been there and undone that and failed at undoing it too. Lol

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u/Weekly_Ask_4152 1d ago

It was devastating. Especially knowing that mix tape forever to make and there was only 1 copy.🫣

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u/MouseGloomy1283 1d ago

Dirt ba—-G

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u/wegotthisonekidmongo 1d ago

i remember on the boardwalk in ocean city nj in the early 90s they would have bootleg U2 cassette tapes of conerts some of them costing 300 plus dollars. Times have changed.

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u/memberbarry80 6h ago

I went to a few 'record shows' back in the day and I wanted sooo much bootleg stuff, but prices were ridiculous.

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u/wegotthisonekidmongo 1h ago

The shop was called tunes on the dunes. It has since closed down. But man the prices for some stuff was crazy

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u/Fancy-Lion2985 1d ago

Sometimes I could replace it unless it was a homemade mix tape.

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u/TheRealVarmint 1d ago

Oh, the memories.

I was meticulous about cleaning my player's capstan and pinch roller, but I still had the occasional tape eaten. What a nightmare. Pull it out and it looks like a zigzag. ... assuming you could get it out at all.

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u/NeuroguyNC 23h ago

This is fixable. Now if this happened to an 8-track tape, you were pretty much screwed.

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u/Ok_Syllabub747 23h ago

Been there too may times

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u/Federal-Business-796 23h ago

Pencil! STAT! 

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u/CheapAssociate6914 19h ago

Even worse is when it breaks the tape inside the player.
It can be a bitch extricating the broken tape!

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u/Wooden_Big_3864 12h ago

The beginning of "Always have a backup Tape"