Introduction: Audio Cassette Loop

Theoretically it sounds really easy; you can take a tape loop aside tape recording the ends of a short objet d'art of magnetic medal together and sticking information technology back inside the cassette tape. However, if you always really tried to make out this, you will soon realize that it is a shade bit trickier than single would think. I spent an afternoon working proscribed and refining this science. After umpteen tries and many a, throw-my-men-in-the-air-and-foretell-to-give-functioning sorts of moments, I think I have information technology down reasonably enough to drop a line instructions for someone else to have sex. Now you too can tape the ends of magnetic ribbon together, ?, and profit!

Step 1: Die off Induce Stuff

You will need:

A cassette
A safety washer
A cunning knife
Double-sided tape
Clear packing tape
A screwdriver
Scissor hold
Lusterlessness board
A ruler
A cassette role player

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Step 2: Open the Case

Raw the cassette tape past removing the screws. With kid gloves set them digression for later reassembly.

Step 3: Remove the Reels

Remove the mag tape reels, but assume't disturb any of the strange mechanisms.

Step 4: Prepare the Reels

Cut both reels free from the tape.

Put your caoutchouc washer around one of them. This will comprise the wheel which will take out the magnetic tape.

Step 5: Turn out Some Magnetic Videotape

Cut a division of magnetic tape roughly a foot long.

Step 6: Thread

Position your wheels back inside the tape and thread the magnetic ribbon around the rubberise wheel, low the unmodified wheel, around the pulley-block opposite the rubber wheel, through the channel at the bottom of the tape, round the other pulley and also to the right of the plastic peg (side by side to the pulley-block).

Put differently, just look at the pictures.

Step 7: Tape

Apply a small piece of double-sided tape on the inside of the magnetic ribbon, pull the loop tight and tape it evenly together.

If the magnetic ribbon is attached at an Angle or any videotape is sticking disconnected the sides, your tape measure loop virtually assuredly will not work.

Step 8: Washer

Cut a washing machine kayoed of mat board and stick IT on the inside of the case more or less the opening that lines up with the wheel with the rubber on it.

This provides to a greater extent hale along the sides of the wheel and ensures the wheel will spin. I found this to be necessary.

Step 9: Close the Case

Trim aside all excess magnet ribbon and close the cassette back upwards. When reinserting the screws, only tighten them about 80% along the side with the rubber wheel. Readapt density as necessary until it plays correctly in your cassette deck.

Step 10: Instantly Make Information technology Better

Peradventure that first loop you made was a little glitchy and you would like for it to work on better.

There is an easy mode to Doctor of Osteopathy this.

First, reopen the caseful, remove the magnetic ribbon loop and cut it in incomplete anywhere along its length.

Step 11: Make a New Piece

Carefully measure this piece of magnetic ribbon and so cut yet another nibble of that exact length.

Step 12: Splicing

Take a limited piece of packing material tape and evenly splice together the two ends to class a hard band (without any twists in it... although, if you set down one twist in IT, it will double the length of the loop, but make it harder to reassemble).

Trim away whatsoever excess wadding mag tape with your razor Beaver State craft stab.

Step 13: Putt All Back In collaboration Again

Put in the fresh band of tape into the cassette deck.

Reassemble the whole unit once more and enjoy your cleanser sounding tape loop.

The trick:
I forever taken that the tape wheel was the mechanism feeding the mag tape finished the player and because of this, I view that the magnetic medal had to be highly tensioned and the wheel needed to constitute as loose as possible to spin out freely. Withal, what I discovered is that what is really feeding the magnetic medal through the player is a bit rubber wheel that comes upwardly from the tail when you smasher play. Because of this, it is beneficial if the ribbon has a little slack (less tensioned) and the wheel is a bit compressed with sides of the case. Reckoning out the right ratio takes a littler trial and error.

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