Sticky Cassette Tapes - Page 2 - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

michamoo · 30th Jan 2017, 12:44 am

One pre-recorded cassette that gave me problems was Kajagoogoos Islands album. Just checked and you guessed it EMI..

Grubhead · 30th Jan 2017, 1:14 am

I have currently 18 EMI Super C90 tapes that have it.
Plus a Captain and Tennile 20 Greatest Hits tape. MFP 50492. But it also carries the EMI logo.

The cover of the blank cassettes is shown below

Timvintage · 30th Jan 2017, 3:56 pm

I have found similar results too, I find the worst tapes to be many pre-recorded ones from the late 70s and early 80s. I usually just chuck these ones out as they're not worth saving in my opinion.
I have found Philips and earlier basf tapes to shed a lot of oxide, meaning you have to clean the heads every few minutes! However if you wind the tape all the way through a couple times, I have found this will get most of the loose oxide stuff off, and then there are few problems afterwords.
I recently got hold of some cassettes of the top 40 from the late 70s and early 80s that someone was going to chuck out! They are recorded from vhf too! They are recorded on Racal Zonal cassettes, and they were getting very jammed up, but I obviously wasn't going to give up with these tapes, so I eventually got them to fastforward all the way through, very, very slowly, but once I had got them to do that once, they seam to have freed up, for now at any rate!

30th Jan 2017, 12:44 am	#21
michamoo Hexode Join Date: May 2006 Location: Cambridge, Cambs. UK. Posts: 469	Re: Sticky Cassette Tapes One pre-recorded cassette that gave me problems was Kajagoogoos Islands album. Just checked and you guessed it EMI.. __________________ If smoking is so bad for you, how come it cures kippers?

30th Jan 2017, 1:14 am	#22
Grubhead Heptode Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK. Posts: 539	Re: Sticky Cassette Tapes I have currently 18 EMI Super C90 tapes that have it. Plus a Captain and Tennile 20 Greatest Hits tape. MFP 50492. But it also carries the EMI logo. The cover of the blank cassettes is shown below Attached Thumbnails

30th Jan 2017, 3:56 pm	#23
Timvintage Pentode Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 143	Re: Sticky Cassette Tapes I have found similar results too, I find the worst tapes to be many pre-recorded ones from the late 70s and early 80s. I usually just chuck these ones out as they're not worth saving in my opinion. I have found Philips and earlier basf tapes to shed a lot of oxide, meaning you have to clean the heads every few minutes! However if you wind the tape all the way through a couple times, I have found this will get most of the loose oxide stuff off, and then there are few problems afterwords. I recently got hold of some cassettes of the top 40 from the late 70s and early 80s that someone was going to chuck out! They are recorded from vhf too! They are recorded on Racal Zonal cassettes, and they were getting very jammed up, but I obviously wasn't going to give up with these tapes, so I eventually got them to fastforward all the way through, very, very slowly, but once I had got them to do that once, they seam to have freed up, for now at any rate!