*Bic classic pens worked wonderfully. Yes, tmoney, I could afford to steal those pens. Are we still talking about winding a tape, yes?
Too many damn times, but Im with xero and swollen, bic pens were the perfect way to get the tape wound back in. and yes Im damn glad to not have to mess with cassettes and 8track tapes any longer. white lightning, that was for misaligned 8 track players, I never had to jam anything on top of the cassette to get it to play, guess its cause I didn't buy cheap stereos
I owned the first home stereo cassette player/recorder to hit the US, the Dutch made Norelco. It had two stereo speakers that came with it, all in teak wood. I still have a few of the cassettes that I made back then. Much later, I purchased a terrific player/recorder by Nakamichi, which rivaled reel to reel models in high fidelity. I still have it, although I haven't used it in years. Interesting thread for some of us. As R2K said, I didn't buy cheap equipment. I don't know how many hours I spent late at night making tapes, but it was fun. I had a mix for every kind of party. We had some great times listening to some of them during our weekend tribal meetings at Pale Face Park on Travis, when two or three dozen of us would drive up from Houston to party and go skinny dipping. How I miss those days!
I remember attaching my dads electric drill to rewind one those and completely ripped the tape off the wheel. I had to scotch tape it back.
