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Vee Aitch Ess (Patreon)

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2021-10-23 00:23:31
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And now, from the garage, it's... old video tapes!

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20 Random VHS Tapes | Ashens

Film Stories! https://filmstories.co.uk This week on things I thought I'd gotten rid of but found in the garage - some of my uncle's old VHS tapes. He was a big fan of action films etc, and that very much shows from this assortment. We've got lovely Mr. Schwarzenegger, the radiant Mr. Stallone, the effervescent Mr. Chan and even the lumpy Mr. Seagal. Plus a load of Shaolin monks! I've now got to go and check all the more interesting tapes I kept from him for mould. I've stored them well but I don't know how they were stored before I got them, obv...

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Keith James Comics

Akira is actually a fairly short manga. It's split into 6 large volumes, about the equivalent of 12 regular manga volumes.

NadetteNoire

Uncle Derek seems to be the kind of guy who would own one of my favorites and it's sequel, which I know comes in a cool double tape shell case. My guess is The Exterminator 1 and 2. Also, don't throw out the Beverly Hills Cop tape as it could probably be restored depending on how bad the mold is, and if it's warped the tape or not. I initially posted a link to a site that shows you how to restore moldy vhs tapes but Patreon removed it due to including a link in my comment. So if you google "Lunchmeatvhs rescue your awesome analog treasures," you will find the method. However, you saying you don't have a spare vhs player, I have done the same method only manually before I found a "beater" player. Note:It's always good to have a couple of extra vhs players in storage. One for restoring tapes like this, and also ones for parts as they are getting harder to find. You remove the cover of the tape and with patience and time, and by wearing microfiber gloves so you don't get prints or oil from your fingertips on to the tape, (I admit I wanted to slap your hand pulling out that poor tape from the top. Bad Ashens!) you clean the tape little by little while spooling it into the opposite side by hand. I have also done this method for things like betamax and some reel to reels before I invested in a cleaning machine for those kind of things. There are professional vhs tape cleaning machines you can get, but they are rare and if you do find one, it can run up to three thousand dollars the last one I saw. But if you take the time and be delicate, this works just as well. There's only been a handful of tapes I couldn't restore. The time and effort will be worth it to find out what "Groomi" is.

nowt

I can't really watch westerns either - I think the fact a character is named as "our hero" sums up a lot of the reasons. To my mind the only western that's worth watching is Unforgiven perhaps because there are no heroes in it.

Ashens

That sounds big to me, but I forgot that things like One Piece are like 20+ volumes so it's fairly svelt anime-wise.

Ashens

I always put The Searchers forward as an example of a "classic" western that's proper good.

nowt

Cheers I'll look out for that.

Ashens

I do have a "good" VCR and a "bad" VCR, but they're both pretty good in the scheme of things and I wouldn't risk them by putting a mouldy tape in. And I think it would be madness to attempt a long and arduous repair process on an old taped-off-the-TV copy of Beverly Hills Cop. (Knowing Derek, "Grumi" is his friend who recorded it or something!) Also: Good guess (Derek absolutely would have seen those films at some point) but incorrect.

NadetteNoire

Don't judge me on how I like to spend an evening. Haha!

Leak

What about Blazing Saddles? ;)

WhatHoSnorkers

There's a Schwarzenegger comedy Western that I haven't seen where he plays "Handsome Stranger". It INTRIGUES me.

Talkren

I know I am a bit late to this but I just wanted to chime in a bit here. I do a lot of archiving home recorded VHS tapes and I have come across a ton of moldy tapes. If the tape is worth it, and not like a mass market tape, you can hand wind it and use a cotton ball soaked in iso alcohol to clean it up. Its time consuming and tedious so I would only recommend it for those hard to get or one of a kind tapes. Also, I have tested a few methods on moldy mass market tapes and found they work just as well but I can't verify long term usability. One is to just play it. Don't bother or worry and give your VCR heads a good cleaning. Another is to throw it in a VHS rewinder and that works at knocking it all off.

NadetteNoire

Wow! Thanks Talkren! I never thought about the VHS rewinder as an option! Next time I'll give that a try to try to at least shake off some of the excess before giving the tape a clean since I have a rewinder just sitting around and I never use it.