How To Repair Cassette Sponge

1. Hey Cassette fans:

   I have several cassettes with missing pressure level pads. I know I could transplant the tape to a proficient trounce, but it's time consuming, and for some tapes, I feel not worth it.

   What do you folks advise as a meterial and adhesive to replace the pad onto the spring in the cassette shell??

   Any techniques to share?

   Thanks,
   Paul

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   SaSi Seriously Illogical Subscriber

   This happened to me in the by with some low quality pre-recorded cassettes and some LH BASF ones.

   What I did back then was to remove the metal plate and stuff a small piece of cotton, ball shaped, behind the record. It worked fine.

3. Why not get another sacrficial cassette they are very inexpensive at thrifts near me.
   I also run into many where the pressure level pad has almost fallen off also.

4. I used a small piece of soft foam, cut to fit and super glued in place...maybe not ideal, but the tape in question was pretty worn out and "needed" to only get through i more than playback run. It's survived several playback runs since and then in diverse decks without outcome.

5. I apply a couple layers of Dr. Scholls mole skin bachelor at the drug store. The stickey is already available. Merely cutting to size and use ii layers to build up thickness.

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6. I establish this self-adhesive felt that works great for me. Here's a thread that I started a few years ago.

   http://world wide web.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=259057

7. Buy a Nakamichi! they dont use the pressure level pads and indeed lift the pad from the heads.

   They audio sweet as well!

8. I accept a super-nasty tape to work with... information technology's a pre-recorded tape with welded beat out and the owner doesn't want me to break the shell. Still, the pressure level pad isn't on a spring bracket similar that of any other cassette I've ever seen but patently glued to a solid slice of metal recessed much further into the shell than the usual bracket, compensated by a much thicker pad. Whatever good ideas how to fix this?

   And no, there's no way 1 arth I'k going to buy a NAK, I don't have that kind of coin and if I had, I would know better means to spend it. Not my thing to sink big sums of money into any hobby.

9. My solution

   I wound up using cocky stick pads intended for placing under lamps and like-At the hardware store, I just asked for the self stick pads to put under lamps and so they don't scratch the tabular array, and they pointed me to a whole bunch of diverse shapes and thicknesses. I wound up choosing ane of the thinnest ones for the standard spring types I typically encounter. There were others that appeared to be perhaps twice every bit thick-maybe they will be thick enough. I suppose they could be stacked, if necessary.

   I seem to think having a cassette back in the day, with a rigid plate, like to what you describe Ragnar.

   If yous but need to run the record in one case, and transfer the recording to something better, then the TP shoved in the hole matter might suffice

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10. Equally of a year agone, yous could buy a cutting-able strip of foam/sticky from a place called '8-Rails Shack' online. It was inexpensive, like $three for the long strip, enough to replace the pad for nigh 20 cassettes. Use a tiny dot of super glue on the copper strip when placing the pad, so let the pad 'settle' for an hour or so. Easier than doing a cannibalization job on another cassette if all else is good.

    Amazingly, I've only had about ten or then cassettes that had the pad fall off, afterwards all these years and a lot of temperature abuse.

11. Oh yes, some of the early 70s type cassettes used a stock-still plate and a thicker pad (wider cream). This could probably be stock-still by using those felt pads from a hardware store, or using ii thicknesses of the 8-Track Shack type of strip material, with superglue in between. You'd have to measure the thickness.

12. Seriously? You can usually get a solid Nakamichi deck on eBay or Craigslist for like $xl.

13. Without having to spend 20 times as much for a restoration? I was nether the impression that information technology is flat out impossible to become a adept NAK for less than $500 unless y'all were extremely lucky.

    Have to check the 'bay

    I'll come across what I can observe for the cassette in question... my dad wants to have it transferred to MiniDisc for future use, and so the paper might do the fox. The pad is deteriorated cream rather than the felt I'm used to seeing on near European tapes.

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14. Not sure where you got that thought, but...nope.

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