The employees pushed out 6 bins of stuff and the bin I was in front of had two small bins within the bin full of cassettes tapes that appeared to be taped together in bundles. Two younger guys moved in quickly and kind of shut me out. T-shirt bros. The stay at the bins all day looking for treasures and vintage shirts. The took a whole bin and ravaged through the 2nd and left the scraps for me. They later came back and dumped "what they didn't want" from the one whole bin they took away, which was all stuff they just didn't know was rad stuff. They made off with a Metallica Kill em all tape and a few other black sabbath tapes. But I was able to rummage through the wreckage and I got all these. The tape cases had packing Tape on them. I know, the irony right? So I will clean these cases and maybe get some empty cases that are clean on my next visits to the bins. Not bad for just under $20.00. I inspected every tape, to make sure the pressure pads were present. The bins charge $1.29 per pound of goods. So, it was fun.

Just got a Sanyo RD S30. Found it at value village while on vacation rn. I tested it with a Celine Dion tape I found, and while idk if it’s to fast or slow (I don’t listen to Celine Dion), ik it does work. If it’s at the right speed, I’m gonna rip my cassette for Ghettosburg Address by Shazzy (unreleased Elektra rap album from 94 with only promos before jt got shelved) i previously ripped it with my walkman, but if this sanyo works perfect, it will sound miles better. Can’t rip until I get back in 4(?) days. If i do rip it perfectly, i will update my internet archive page with the new rip. Also I can make my OWN custom tapes with the line in on the back (already planning a custom KMD Black bastards and Otropic three for me, might even make my lil brother his own ghettosburg)

Now listening to Licensed To Ill - Beastie Boys

I’ve been collecting since 2019ish. I still remember buying my first tape at a bookstore, Primus - Frizzle Fry and Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (‘) in a mixtape. Man was my mind blown to say the least haha.

Been collecting local tapes from the local scene and my favs, although increasing my hip-hop collection is on the list! I can’t live without my radio.

Got my Denon DN-T620 which is a cassette/CD combo deck hooked up to a Creative sub and speakers which I bought at the thrift store.

Got two more briefcases with my Led Zeppelin collection and some other mixtapes but I wanted to share the collection with the community!

And there's more that I haven't got in my possession 🫨

Scored these beauties at the thrift for ridiculously cheap. The GoldStar works beautifully all around, but the Sharp is in need of a new belt, a lil clean up and I hope that'll fix it!

Recently getting really into 70s disco and Disco Inferno has been on repeat for a bit. Finally found a reissue of this soundtrack and JUST realised it's over 10 minutes long 😅 I've been listening to the single version all this time.

Currently hearing some rubbing noises coming from the motor. I assume this means either motor/capsitain lubrication or a belt change.

Unfortunatly I haven't found too much online in regards in specific lubrication of parts so any insight would be great.

Cheers!

I'm at work and I don't have any tapes with me that I want to cut so I can't test it now. Made by Akai so I am confident it will work well.

I have always found splicing tapes very tedious and almost never did it unless the tape was something special and difficult or impossible to replace.

This thing, which I bought for $2 looks like it will make splicing relatively easy.

You lift the cutter assembly and the hold down arms up. Place one end of the tape to be spliced down on the cutting surface and lower that arm to hold it in place then the other end of the tape overlapping the first.

Slide the selector to the cut position and press down cutting both ends at an angle.

Raise the cutters up but not the hold down arms and apply the splicing tape across the cut.

Lower the cutters, slide the selector to trim and press down, cutting both edges of the splicing tape at the same time.

Raise the hold down arms and you are done.

This might be my last haul for a while but it's my favorite haul so far.

yeah i’m gonna be real, this just broke my heart because i accidentally confirmed the order when trying to confirm something else. oh my god. now i can’t return or refund it.

rant aside, basically, the tape plays but it constantly has that cartoony record-scratch-rewind noise? and my player refuses to fast forward it. and the songs that aren’t completely ruined are still slightly distorted. is it heat damage? it sat in a mailbox for who knows how long, i didn’t get the damn delivery notification.

I was sure these were comics. Then it clicked. In Japanese Jan Ken Pon is not a name. It is the game itself, and the beat when everyone shows the hand!

The Japanese do not say rock, paper, scissors as the count. They say jan, ken, pon!

Jan is the start of the count. Ken is fist, the old name of the game. Pon is the throw sound: same job as shoot.

And once you know, yeah. All three gestures are right there in the drawing.

Sharing my humble polish power dance cassette collection. I got some pretty rare titles i think.

So I've bought two new cassettes and wanted to try them out. When I came to side 2 on either one of them, they started making squeaking noises. Does anyone know why they do that? My guess would be those little rollers for the tape, but I don't know. The tapes themselves sound amazing.

Please dont blame me for not knowing much about cassettes. I have Lots of other physical media!

Had a few seconds to spare, so I hopped from my 1979 Soundesign 5954 to my 1982 Yorx R5285 clock with built-in stereo mics...

Paid £30 for the whole stack, works with no issues after replacing belts and giving a good service.

I'm just curious if this is worth repairing or even how complicated it would be to repair.

I recently bought this Tascam Porta 05 and I am completely new to 4 track recording. Currently I believe the machine is stuck in the play position because the bottom pieces highlighted won’t move down even when I press stop. This is causing me to not be able to put a tape in or I guess take it out even if I managed to get one in.

When I press play the wheels won’t move either. The fast forward and rewind work completely fine though.

I did I little bit of reading online and I think it might have something to do with the belts? But I am not sure at all of what I need to do to fix it.

Is it worth trying myself to take it apart and replace pieces or take it to a shop?

Any help or video links would be appreciated, I know nothing about this!

I wanted to ask if anyone knows any websites to buy Blank Cassettes/C0 cassettes from, especially in different colours. I really want to give my cassettes my own flair but I haven't found any good ones yet. Should be one that delivers to Europe/Austria. I found like two websites that have a bunch of different ones but Delivery itself is like 40 bucks. Does anyone know a cheaper one or is that already cheap..? I'm new to cassettes so I don't know most of the stuff so any help would be very appreciated

I’ve been doing basic cleaning and belt replacements and whatnot for a bit and figure it’s time to add soldering to the toolkit. I plan to get a basic practice kit before leveling up to trash picked practice. Then I have a portable I need to break a solder on to get to the belt.

What tips do you veterans have for me? What sort of traps should I avoid that Google won’t tell me about? What gear might I need and not be thinking about?