My Nakamichi deck ate my best 90s grunge mix tape last night

I was just sitting there listening to my carefully curated Nirvana and Soundgarden mix from 1993, and about halfway through the tape just CRUNCHED and stopped. I popped the door open and the tape was all bunched up inside, like the take-up reel just gave up. I spent a good 20 minutes with a tiny screwdriver and some tweezers trying to get the slack back on the reels. Managed to save about 75 percent of it but the middle got wrinkled pretty bad. Anyone know a good way to fix creased tape without making it worse?

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2 Comments

sagesingh29d ago

Feel your pain man, I lost a Pearl Jam bootleg the same way.

campbell.logan29d ago

Question if it's really that serious. You saved 75 percent of a grunge mix tape from 1993. Congrats, you can still hear half of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and a scratchy "Black Hole Sun." Is creased tape actually going to change your life? Put the tweezers down and go stream it on Spotify like everyone else has been doing for the last decade. Those tapes were junk back then and they're junk now. You probably feel like you're saving a piece of history but really you're just fighting a losing battle against cheap plastic from thirty years ago.

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