chewd up camcorder tape

Richie-from-the-Boro

spud17 wrote: »

25 metres should last you ages!

Or did you mean 6mm, 1/4"?

Takes me back to making loops/over-dubbing with my 4 track Fergusson. :beer:

Yeh, I'm so old I still talk in old [ fractions ] money spud17 :beer:

I used to [ after the pro tape ran out ] use micro-pore tape, a 3M medical product that leaves no residual marks, and did for over a decade, from the same roll, it never degraded, although I did keep it in an airtight tin

googler

closed wrote: »

you (or someone) could cut and splice it with sellotape.

NO!

That's the LAST thing you want to do, even with 'proper' splicing tape.....

googler

Don't splice it.

It doesn't matter if it's chewed, just flatten it out, wind it back into the cassette, , fast-forward, rewind, and when transferring, just play through the chewed section, and edit that out on whatever you've transferred it to.

Only in the most extreme cases will it be chewed beyond normality. If you can lay it out flat, and it still has the regular width of normal tape, then don't do anything with it other than wind it back in and replay.

Don't handle it with bare fingers - get cotton or latex gloves.

You ARE going to play it back on a different machine from the one that chewed it, aren't you?