Thank you. I have had a movie tape sitting around for about a year that either got dropped or stepped on. I thought it would be easy to swap boxes, but only now got around to looking up how. Looks easier than I thought!🙂
Swapping tapes over into different cassettes looks easier than it is but not in practice. You have to be careful not to pull the spring out of the back lid, and also it's easy to pull off the plastic bits that hold the cassette in place at the bottom. But I've heard that it's not a very good idea to use Sellotape/Sticky tape as it will damage the tape and heads of the machine, and even Scotch tape isn't recommended. Using only professional splicing tape (which isn't cheap) and a tape splicing ruler is the best method to repairing tapes.
Hi there, just wondering, if a voltage output on a smps goes higher than rated, what could be wrong? The output suppose to be 12v dc but upon checking, it shows 20v dc and causing the system to shut down due to protection. Checked all caps, all good. regulators are good as well. But yeah, voltage going higher than it suppose to.
That is the benefit of video cassettes, be it VHS or BETAMAX: most of the time a tape can be fixed and precious memories can be saved. CD's and DVD's do decompose and become unreadable, files on a drive can get corrupted and get lost forever. My point is: analog is not as bad as most people today think.
Until the machine required to play it no longer functions and you can not just go out and buy a new one. As to DVD for reliability I have played flawlessly a DVD that was recorded 17 years ago, and was recorded on a no name brand generic shit disk. Your previous DVDs put a copy in a dark cool dark drawer. Don't leave them lying in the sun. I have 200 cdr compilation disks on my Sony 200 dials changer. They have been in it since I made the CDs most in the early 90s and every one of them plays fine. I have been looking for disks that do not play and the only ones that don't were disks that I sat in a window to see how long it took the sun to damage it. Incidentally last time I tried to play it was 3 years ago after it had been sitting with the record surface facing the window for a year. Then I forgot about it. But it did play fine after 1 year but failed sometime between 1 year and year 4. If you backup your DVDs every 10 years you will never lose your data. A blank Costa what, .39 and you can back up a full disk in about 5 minutes.
Did this a lot for security surveillance tapes repaired torn tape too, hardest part was removing them from the Panasonic time lapse recorders, the unloading mechanism would not travel up evenly to eject the tape. Sometimes the tape was more valuable than the machines, we had lots of them.
12voltvids sometimes nypd or fbi. were looking for a car passing through one of our facilities to get a positive Id , also used to prosecute dwi people tapes all gone now, all digital @30fps
Recently got a cassette from customer who said that it's totally unplayable for somehow. Turns out that someone (the customer herself/previous transfer house, I'll never know) tried to "fix" this cassette before, causing the tape ribbon itself to be totally incorrectly wounded. It's literally wound INSIDE OUT & BACK TO FORTH. Spending a good few hours to figure out what happened and rectify that. How fun it is...
Nice fix. 👍 I have a question for you, we where moving houses and I turned my VCR upside down. Then when I played back Tapes it played VHS Tapes fine, however if I played a VHS-C Tape in an adapter and put it in the VCR the picture is not still. Is this a tape alignment problem? What do you think? Thank you 👍
BTW has anyone had this problem, where a VCR plays back VHS Tapes fine but when a VHS-C is put in an adapter and played back on the VCR the picture is not still? Or is it just me? 🤷♂️
I have a multi format tv that can play all, and I can play these secam tapes on it but not convert secam anymore. My machine that did secam is beyond repair. Panasonic agw1 crap.
@@joshm264 Setting the capture card to PAL will result in no color when playing back SECAM tapes. Both the VCR and capture card must be SECAM-capable. And don't be tricked by "MESECAM". It's still incompatible with the French SECAM.
That’s a great idea. I wish Brendan Pippin (aka Brendan’s Movie Corner) would be a great idea to swap a VHS tape after being chewed up, because of the 1991 French Canadian VHS of “Fantasia” got screwed up big time. That happened on a number of copies multiple times at the beginning, the middle, and the end. I saw his video back a few months ago before he closed his channel. Now is “Brendan’s Movie Corner Backup”.
It was being bulk erased and thrown out. The vast majority never want the tapes back postage it too high to return. They get the file downloaded and i dispose of the tape. Perhaps 1 in 10 wants the tape returned.
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For fixing a snapped tape , I put some bluetac on table , it keeps the tape in place wile using selortape to hold them together . Now I have to fined out how this little peace of plastic fits back in on VIDEO 8 FFFFFFF
1:13 - afterwards you'll swap the reels back into the broken shell again? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? Leave them in the good housing, so the client gets something decent back. They win, and you win because you save 5 minutes of totally useless labour. And you make somebody else (your client) happy. It's not as if VHS tapes are worth even one cent each. They are trash, so just donate one for God's sake!
@@12voltvids - Sorry, my comment is only based on what you told us in the video! You said at 0:33 "It's a Secam tape that I have no need for" and at 1:16 "...and I'll hand the guy back his original tape..." If the Secam tape was actually valuable to you, it's strange to use it as donor when standard VHS are "dime a dozen" LOL
Thank you. I have had a movie tape sitting around for about a year that either got dropped or stepped on. I thought it would be easy to swap boxes, but only now got around to looking up how. Looks easier than I thought!🙂
Thanks for this quick and simple tutorial. Worked like a charm .
Yay! I fixed my Lost Boys tape with your help. Thank you!
Looks nice and easy. Going to look through all my spares and get some coloured tapes to swap with regular ones. Thank you!
Just swapped Halloween into my orange rugrats case
Swapping tapes over into different cassettes looks easier than it is but not in practice. You have to be careful not to pull the spring out of the back lid, and also it's easy to pull off the plastic bits that hold the cassette in place at the bottom. But I've heard that it's not a very good idea to use Sellotape/Sticky tape as it will damage the tape and heads of the machine, and even Scotch tape isn't recommended. Using only professional splicing tape (which isn't cheap) and a tape splicing ruler is the best method to repairing tapes.
Hi there, just wondering, if a voltage output on a smps goes higher than rated, what could be wrong? The output suppose to be 12v dc but upon checking, it shows 20v dc and causing the system to shut down due to protection. Checked all caps, all good. regulators are good as well. But yeah, voltage going higher than it suppose to.
That is the benefit of video cassettes, be it VHS or BETAMAX: most of the time a tape can be fixed and precious memories can be saved.
CD's and DVD's do decompose and become unreadable, files on a drive can get corrupted and get lost forever.
My point is: analog is not as bad as most people today think.
Until the machine required to play it no longer functions and you can not just go out and buy a new one. As to DVD for reliability I have played flawlessly a DVD that was recorded 17 years ago, and was recorded on a no name brand generic shit disk. Your previous DVDs put a copy in a dark cool dark drawer. Don't leave them lying in the sun. I have 200 cdr compilation disks on my Sony 200 dials changer. They have been in it since I made the CDs most in the early 90s and every one of them plays fine. I have been looking for disks that do not play and the only ones that don't were disks that I sat in a window to see how long it took the sun to damage it. Incidentally last time I tried to play it was 3 years ago after it had been sitting with the record surface facing the window for a year. Then I forgot about it. But it did play fine after 1 year but failed sometime between 1 year and year 4.
If you backup your DVDs every 10 years you will never lose your data. A blank Costa what, .39 and you can back up a full disk in about 5 minutes.
Tape holds it for life , over 30 years and they still play !
@@12voltvids Discs rot in the shade left long enough
How do you do this if you only have one of the reels. Is there a way to connect it to a new takup reel?
Yes you can connect to a donor hub from another cassette. Just be sure you keep the clear leader.
What will happen if there is a problem with capacitors in VCR power supply. Will ckt not respond eventhough switched ON.
Did this a lot for security surveillance tapes repaired torn tape too, hardest part was removing them from the Panasonic time lapse recorders, the unloading mechanism would not travel up evenly to eject the tape. Sometimes the tape was more valuable than the machines, we had lots of them.
Yes security footage is very valuable when it can identify a crime and put some douchebag behind bars.
12voltvids sometimes nypd or fbi. were looking for a car passing through one of our facilities to get a positive Id , also used to prosecute dwi people tapes all gone now, all digital @30fps
@@tonymanzo3766 yes for sure. Digital changed everything for security cameras.
Thank you. You gave me the confidence I needed. Saved me!
Thank God 😢 I broke one of my mom's VHS with important memories and I was about to lose my mind if you couldn't fix it (': True hero, sir. Lmao
Recently got a cassette from customer who said that it's totally unplayable for somehow. Turns out that someone (the customer herself/previous transfer house, I'll never know) tried to "fix" this cassette before, causing the tape ribbon itself to be totally incorrectly wounded. It's literally wound INSIDE OUT & BACK TO FORTH. Spending a good few hours to figure out what happened and rectify that. How fun it is...
Nice fix. 👍 I have a question for you, we where moving houses and I turned my VCR upside down. Then when I played back Tapes it played VHS Tapes fine, however if I played a VHS-C Tape in an adapter and put it in the VCR the picture is not still. Is this a tape alignment problem? What do you think? Thank you 👍
BTW has anyone had this problem, where a VCR plays back VHS Tapes fine but when a VHS-C is put in an adapter and played back on the VCR the picture is not still? Or is it just me? 🤷♂️
Could be an alignmant problem or the cassette adapter may be broken.
Do you have any seacam tapes youd like to get rid of I can play all formats and dont have any of those ?
I actaully have 2 multi system tvs to that play all formats with no converter needed.
I have a multi format tv that can play all, and I can play these secam tapes on it but not convert secam anymore. My machine that did secam is beyond repair. Panasonic agw1 crap.
@@12voltvids how about using a capture card on a VCR that plays SECAM tapes. Then set the card to record on SECAM (or PAL if it doesn't support SECAM
@@joshm264
No need. These tapes are in a language I dont understand so I have no reason to ever watch them.
@@joshm264 Setting the capture card to PAL will result in no color when playing back SECAM tapes. Both the VCR and capture card must be SECAM-capable. And don't be tricked by "MESECAM". It's still incompatible with the French SECAM.
That’s a great idea. I wish Brendan Pippin (aka Brendan’s Movie Corner) would be a great idea to swap a VHS tape after being chewed up, because of the 1991 French Canadian VHS of “Fantasia” got screwed up big time. That happened on a number of copies multiple times at the beginning, the middle, and the end. I saw his video back a few months ago before he closed his channel. Now is “Brendan’s Movie Corner Backup”.
I use to repair the 8track tapes in the same manner.Easy as pie if you're smarter than the average bear.Lol.👍📺📻
Life saving. I have a 1998 Ronald McDonald's adventure vhs the shell isn't broken to badly but I rather replace the shell
Helped me alot
I'm making some custom tapes this way!
Thank you
Yeah.. be sure to turn the reels when in place to get the tape less slacky. You’ll hear the gears click, don’t over tighten.
That's a given.
Amazing! Ty!
Uhhh. Why would you transfer the tape back into the old broken shell to give back to the customer 😮
It was being bulk erased and thrown out. The vast majority never want the tapes back postage it too high to return. They get the file downloaded and i dispose of the tape. Perhaps 1 in 10 wants the tape returned.
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Oh no! A cultural rarity from Burgundy is getting destroyed ;-)
Hi 12voltvids.Where are you from?I'm your viewer from Slovakia,your videos are teaching and entertaining me.Do you have e-mail or are you on any social network?I would like to get in touch with you.I have some vintage boomboxes that need service.Pls leave reply.Thanks Martin from Slovakia
What I've done with one of mine, I took the top half off so I can show people how the VHS mechanism works
For fixing a snapped tape , I put some bluetac on table , it keeps the tape in place wile using selortape to hold them together .
Now I have to fined out how this little peace of plastic fits back in on VIDEO 8 FFFFFFF
Very cheap vhs tapes and reliable , record your tv show easy not suffering from memory currption or time left math calculation
Time left calculation? Know no such thing. All my shows are in the cloud by my tv provider. I can watch them commercial free whenever I want in hd.
True , the only Digital storage thats worth using is MD .
They have now riund our market now for profit
The shell swap broke on my VHS tape when I was a toddler so toddlers do not fix VHS tapes so I still need to keep my broken VHS tape that works
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I would have to film everywhere when i tried to take it out.
My sweetheart could fix that!!!
What if you have a real thats broken 🤔
1:13 - afterwards you'll swap the reels back into the broken shell again? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Leave them in the good housing, so the client gets something decent back. They win, and you win because you save 5 minutes of totally useless labour. And you make somebody else (your client) happy.
It's not as if VHS tapes are worth even one cent each. They are trash, so just donate one for God's sake!
Except that this is a secam tape that I may need for testing a multi system machine. The tapes are all going in the garbage once they are transferred.
@@12voltvids - Sorry, my comment is only based on what you told us in the video! You said at 0:33 "It's a Secam tape that I have no need for" and at 1:16 "...and I'll hand the guy back his original tape..."
If the Secam tape was actually valuable to you, it's strange to use it as donor when standard VHS are "dime a dozen" LOL
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