You can buy splicing kits that use tape that won't clog the VHS heads. When the tape breaks, the tape is stretched near the break, usually making a few seconds or so unplayable. If not, have the deck serviced or risk more tape damage. The tape edges should be smooth, indicating a proper rewind. Just take a look at the sides of the tape in the cassette after rewind. If that fails or slips, the tape will end up with slack and can be easily damaged at next play or rewind. There is also a friction brake on the deck that keeps tension on the tape during rewind or stopping. It used to be a common problem with external rewinders that didn't detect this properly and broke the tape, usually at the splice to the clear leader. Normally VHS tapes have a clear leader at the ends and a photocell in the VHS player sees that and stops the rewind. I don't mind losing a second of info, and personally don't care for the most perfect splice, since I can pull some tricks in digital mode with an editor later anyway. If I may ask a quick question here? What would you do with a complete cut/split somewhere in the middle of the tape? Is it just a matter of placing a bit of regular office invisible tape (like Scotch tape)? And where would you place it assuming the position of the reel in the casing - on the outer or inner part of the tape? (Or is there a better home solution?) I would use multiple copies of a DvD for viewing. I believe, to be honest, that you may have further problems with this aging tape, and continued playback will just keep destroying it further beyond what you've just fixed. You can still keep the tape if the source is valuable enough to you, but keep it only as a source if you ever need it again. Not sure about long term though if one wants to continue watching it on a VCR since I'm one that would throw a VHS tape out when I've captured I personally would recommend you make a digital version of this tape for DvD (or other) viewing. I've had this problem too and corrected it in a very similar fashion and it worked good enough to digitize and save the content. If you are careful, you could disassemble a good tape to use as an example. The sticker would be on the shiny side of the tape, on the side away from the player head. If you don't find the silver sticker, one could be made by cutting out a piece of aluminum foil and gluing it in place. That would be perhaps a couple of feet from the actual end of the hub. Wind 10 or 12 wraps of tape around the hub and then place the sticker. If you find it, just glue it back in place with crazy glue or something similiar. Look around in the cartridge for the reflective sticker which with any luck will have fallen off inside the cartridge and still be laying there. The cartridge can be gently disassembled and the tape either re-glued to the reel or folded into a hub slit (look at the other end of the tape to see how that one was originally attached). Most likely, the sticker glue failed and the sticker fell off so the player continued rewinding at full power / speed and when it hit the actual end of the tape, pulled it loose where it was glued to the reel (or folded into a slit in the hub). The tapes had a reflective sticker glued to the tape some inches from the end and the players used this as a warning to stop. The combination probably isn't enough to actually pull a tape apart, although if the tape had become brittle due to age and a bad environment I reckon it is possible. VHS tape players have a lot of torque and a high speed rewind reel full of tape has a lot of inertia. Can it even be a home fix problem? Any suggestions would be great! ) Is there some way we can savour the film strip inside and get it fixed onto another tape or transferred to some other form of media so we r not loosing those memories? Im guessing there must be some places or people who can fix problems like this, but VHS stuff seems so primitive now, I wouldnt have a clue as to who would deal with this kind of problem. But I recently had watched this tape before and I know from watching it, that the film itself is still great quality. This is the oldest VHS tape we have (back from 1988 home video) and Im guessing this happened because the VHS is just getting old. It had obviously snapped or come unattached somehow. After, i tried turning the reel in the tape manually with my finger to see if I could bring the play forward a bit and thats when I noticed that the film looked like it was no longer attached to the reel on the inside of the tape. So I tried fast forwarding for a little bit and the tape automatically ejected. Hello, I was just in the process of watching some old home videos on VHS and when I went to rewind the tape to the beginning so I could watch it, it refused to play.
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