Anyone have any thoughts on how to properly lubricate old cassettes?
YouTube is conflicting and most other research says don’t use wet or dry silicone
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Shouldn’t be necessary, what playback issues are you experiencing?
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Wows & flutters also dragging on some older tapes.the cassette player was serviced ,most tapes play fine
IIRC it’s only 8 track tapes that often require lubrication as the cartridges contain part of the mechanism.
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I have had that problem too in the distant past. What I did was to open the cassette and move the tape to another case which contains floating leaves of plastic between the tape and the case. I discarded the tape in the other case. I think TDK and Maxell tapes included these floating leaves.
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If I’m about to play a cassette that hasn’t been played in years (or even decades) I find it helps to just fast-forward then rewind the thing before playing. Helps keep your tape deck in shape too.
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Good call. I have a Technics RS-M85 just for winding tapes through if they haven’t been played for many years.
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Dual capstan drive is also a good antidote.
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