Re: Will these old tapes be playable?
Dave,
Tapes that appear to be wound inside out may prove to be “back-coated” ones, they often give that impression. However, in my experience, Tandy tapes were prone to “sticky-shed” syndrome anyway so binning was not a bad idea!
I’ve got some tapes with apparent mould on the edges, I’m hoping that spooling through some of those makeup removing pads may clean them.
Grundig for some years supplied a little plastic fork with felt pads with their tape recorders in order to clean tapes. That’s what the two little holes along side the sound channel are for on Grundig machines.
Peter
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