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Just noticed package design says 1998.

I fixed 2 of my cassettes today :)

1) Gypsy - First album (Double album) - Paper Labels
2) BB KING - LA Midnight

The Gypsy cassette had a loose pad so I just glued it back on.... Im glad it works as I only have wood glue...

The BB KING tape was on 1 of those crappy early 70s Ampex tapes......No Rollers,The oad was a disgrace....... I ripped that open and just put it in anither shell,she sounds beautiful with a good pad!!!

Isnt BB KING good???

I just fixed my Jim Croce cassette tonight :)

ALBUM: Life and times (His last album)

The cassette it was in had a horrible pad,it sounded horrible....... It DID have rollers which I was surprised at!! (70s Blue cassette)

I put it in another shell that has a good pad........

Makes me sad/mad when I think of all the beautiful analogue material that made it to cassette in the late 60s/70s but wont ever be heard good because they made crap back then which is very sad!

CARTRIDGES WITH NO ROLLERS/Pads..... I have seen cassettes firom 1981 without rollers!!

Who are these idiots that make thie crap and expect it to play??

Most people wont do as I do and put the spools in another shell or whatever........... I value my media and when I get something analogue,I dont wanna lose it if I can help it!!

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Electric shower. It was smoking a bit...
Turned out to be a loose connection, replaced the burnt out connector and wires.
Mrs K's dreams of a new shower are shattered... But I do need her to test drive the repair, for safety reasons ;)
("It was an honest mistake any diy, colour blind electrician could have made Constable..")

I last fixed my ZZTOP 8 track tape!

Well I moved the tape from the cartridge it was in (Which didnt play well) into another cartridge where the tape DID play fine......

This was my first 8 track job.. I love this ZZTop album (Eliminator)

Now that I know I can do it,I wanna get another cartridge and move my Barry Manilow tape into that! (This ones for you)

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Here's an adapter https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BBozn...?feature=share

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Put a new towel rail up in the bathroom that's been loose for 15 odd years and I had been avoiding it because of plasterboard walls but using the Gripit plasterboard fixings makes it a doddle with no fear of them falling out over time.

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Our living room coffee table.

Noticed a screw on the floor yesterday, near the table.
On checking, it had fell out of the table, so one of the legs was now loose.
I put it back and noticed others had loosened over time, so tightened them all up.

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3A fuse in my Nvidia Shield :)

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Replaced the swelling battery in my mobile phone, easy, but a little fiddly.

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Finally fixed the wall around my New Boiler that was installed in May which left small areas of none painted plasterboard around some of it. I couldn't remember what paint I used 25+ years ago so just bought a couple of £2.50 touchup sample paints and on the second attempt I got a close enough match, it was never going to be perfect because the paint had faded and I didn't want to paint the whole Kitchen so it'll have to do!

Well I sort of fixed my record player... Now All I need is a needle!!

Last year It locked up on me.. The gears got jammed and it wouldnt do anything so I shelved it again and its been down there for months... Last night I got desperate and I was thinking dropping it onto the floor a few inches off the ground might free the gears and sure enough it did!

I had basically a mono speaker setup last year on my 1968 player by hooking both parts of the speaker to both terminals.. (So it came out both channels in 1 speaker)

I was about to put it in my room last year and she locked up...


Im glad I got it back because my 50s MONO player is about shot and I have no cue how to fix that! (Speed selector control is me$$ed up)

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3 springs replaced in door handles around the home. I've only one spare left, so have asked the original seller if he still has stock to sell.

I last fixed my Foghat cassette :) (Thier 1981 album)

It had a crappy pad in it which produced horrible sound!!