techknight said:

And not to mention the media will start to degrade over time. That is becoming a big problem with vintage reel-to-reel tapes, the ferric oxide, and other materials used to make the tape is starting to fall apart, flake off, turn into goo.

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This is also true of the adhesive holding the splice-tape to the audio tape. I got a box full of 1/4" home-recorded tape a few years ago, and the splices were falling apart on the ones I looked at. The actual material on the tape seemed to be intact, however.

Unfortunately, I've come to find out that everything degrades with age eventually.

Well, that's why were here I guess; to keep things in working order and to learn to repair things that weren't necessarily meant to be repaired.

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