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**AnalogRocks**

Was just listening to cassettes. Pulled out my new ( to me ) BAD Company tape and needed to tighten up the loos tape. Funny but under the tape deck there was a pen. Perfect!!

When was the last time you needed to do that? Very Happy

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 5:55 pm Post subject:

Never! My Nakamichi automatically tensions the tape, and I'm not fool enough to store a cassette mid-tape so that some cool part of a song gets damaged. So there! Razz

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 6:22 pm Post subject:

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 6:40 pm Post subject:

I actually ran through 5 cassette decks for a customer/buddy of mine yesterday. All need belts, so I've got 10 of each on order. Repairs are through the roof at this point, but I only do them when I have time. So I order belts by the 10-lot as the price comes way down. I still hate repairing cassette decks over RTRs.

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

I never bought into cassette tapes. Went from 8-track and vinyl to CD, back to vinyl.

deronmoped · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 1154 Location: San Diego

I never used the pre-recorded tapes, I always used the good quality blank tapes and recorded off my records. The sound quality was much better and tape/mechanism never gave me any problems.

We even took it to the extreme for car audio back in the 70's and 80's. My brother and I would use inverters so we could run a house stereo amp and record player.

mc86 · Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 4:54 am Post subject:

I've got a 1989 suburban that is all conversion-van styled (with the disco lights inside, etc) -- something like the starsky and hutch car, but in red and white and on a truck. Anyway, I put maybe 500 miles on it each year as it is a junk and dumpster-diving enabler/3rd vehicle if one is in the shop. Since I'm not in it much, I've never bothered replacing/enhancing the factory radio. I only listen to cassettes I made in the late 80s/early 1990s -- the expensive maxell tapes have held up. Remember the CaseLogic cases -- three of them live in the truck!

So, yep, I do the pen thing sometimes still as the auto-reverse sometimes goes off falsely...

Matt

CIR Engineering · Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 11:11 pm Post subject:

CIR Engineering

mc86 · Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 3:17 pm Post subject:

When you're rumbling in an old truck with the windows down, Johnny Cash belting out Folsom Prison Blues sounds fine with hiss, etc. Plus, with me singing along as I drive, the sound is truly awful for other reasons. Wink

I made a lot of the tapes from my dad's vinyl and many of the albums weren't on CD in 1988-1990 when I made them. My Fuzzy Mountain String Band tape didn't come out on CD until the 1995, for example. The Eggplant that Ate Chicago song was one that took me a long time to find, too.

Matt

the big E · Joined: 20 Apr 2013 Posts: 1928 Location: speedwell Tn.

I plan on converting some of the older vynl I have to digital soon

Last vehicle I bought with a cassette deck was my truck(which now has the factory nav which is soon to be replaced with a aftermarket unit since the gps quit)

I rarely even used the tape deck except one or twice and I think it was for my iPod the second time

Ever since its been iPod only through the media gateway(though the truck has seen a LOT more miles since then it still runs great for a 03 with 230k plus miles)

Ps Matt next time your in my area give me a call I found that spare hvps and a board along with the back to the ecp you bought from me.