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When was the last time that the heads were cleaned in this machine? The heads may be completely dirty and need serious cleaning with isopropyl alcohol of at least 95% pure. Also, I trust this is not the original that you are making a copy from. No original should ever be copied at high speed. Rather, it needs to be done in real time then any other copies after that you can do at high speed from the copy. Can you tell me what type of cassette it is - make eg: Radio Shack, is the casing molded and without screws? The tape itself may need to be rehoused in a new casing with screws. Did you notice a splice anywhere? Marie O'Connell Sound Archivist/Audio Engineer The Center For Oral History & Cultural Heritage The University Of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive #5175 Hattiesburg, MS, 39401-406 Ph: 601-266-6514 Fax: 601-266-6217 -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christina Hostetter Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:40 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ARSCLIST] stuck tape I hope that someone might have a solution for this problem. This morning I am having my intern copy oral history tapes to make service copies for research and to send off for transcription and while she was dubbing one of the tapes in the high speed dubbing machine it stopped. At that point the copy rewound but the original wouldn't budge. I pulled it out of the machine and tried to manually advance or reverse the tape but it is completely stuck as if all of the tape melted together at that one spot. The tape will rewind but it will not go past that one spot so half of the tape is usable and the other half is just stuck. Any suggestions on how to salvage this tape? Is it salvageable? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christina J. Hostetter Archivist Eric Friedheim Library at The National Press Club 529 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20045 Tel: 202-662-7523 Fax: 202-879-6725 http://www.press.org/library/archives ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~