When in the 80s you transformed into a highly qualified engineer.

in 1985, you were able to save this cassette by using a Bic pen with the acuity of a neurosurgeon.

I knew how to do stuff like this as a child and now I know nothing

This is back when most things were actually fixable.

a highly qualified 80s magnetic tape repair technician would have used a splicing block. this guy is merely qualified magnetic tape repair technician.

Most people who used cassettes learned fast how to splice tape and manually rewind. 😏

only to have the tape shredded again on the next playback

And very useful step

Oh yeah, I was one of those. You could even use chewing gum if you knew what you were doing😂

Let's not forget the joys of untangling them after they're eaten by the player.

Watched an old movie last night, and it showed a magazine office with graphic artists and the big workup boards. Really miss those days!

I do not miss seeing the wadded up remnants glittering on the side of the highways along with the piles of cigarette butts.

I recall those days… lots of custom recorded tapes too. In that iconic 1967 GTO… so much great music… n living …

Haha, totally relatable! I remember spending hours with a pencil to rewind tapes that got tangled. Did you ever use a pencil for this, or did you have other tricks up your sleeve?"

My husband was SO good at that. I did the detangling and he did the repair. 8 teaks, cassettes.. his repairs were flawless.

On était manuel 👍nous les jeunes des années 80 et débrouillards 🤗

Loved it.

Yup this was me

What those tape cassette engineers work with today...

I did that too in 90s😂

Thought for a while about going in to brain surgery school when I got my SONY boom box and a big shrink wrap bunch of blank TDK cassettes.

Congrats, now you’re overqualified for fixing the Wi-Fi but still underpaid for it. 🔧📶

I had to take many cassettes apart to fix tangles but I never successfully spliced one with tape. They always came apart on the next play.

I had perfected this art Still have spliced cassettes that work! For fun used to splice pieces of tapes taken from different music cassette resulting in cacophony medley!!

In Italy we used the BIC pen to rewind the tape. It fit so perfectly you can think it has been created to do that instead for writing ...😂

Splicing tape does not make you a highly-qualified engineer 🤣

I remember it well. It was like surgery with tape.

I also did this with video tapes.

😅😂

💯

🤣I became the go to expert on fixing those trappy wee buggers , used to tape the top 20 when i was a nipper , always trying to time it just right to avoid the DJ wafflin 😁🙋‍♂️

I've done that so many times.

@dammit_amy Just regulare maintenance. Learned it from my g-pa who was a recording engineer

Indeed. Have done this more than once!