How To Repair 8mm Video Tape

How To Repair 8mm Video Tape. In this video, I show how to repair an 8mm tape using what I like to call the "Fishing" method. I use a little screwdriver with a piece of plastic transparent tape on the end of it and..... well, watch the video to see how I do it!!!

[johnmaher]

The "fishing method" was amazing, thank you! My Mini DV tape didn't have screws to take the case apart, but I was able to easily fish the broken ends out of the tape on both sides, and then splice them.

[Coachwill]

I had a cherished tap from '93 when I was living in Europe and it broke. This helped me to easily repair it. Thanks you!

[garypickles]

Great tutorial, so simple and no disassembly needed. Thanks Mark

[enjoyenjoy]

This is what YT should be about. People with positive things. Not all the bs and trash people get poisoned with. Great and helpful tutorial!!

[Stephen]

Fixed 4 of my partners tapes of her early childhood. Serious brownie points from the mother in law thank you

[johntarella]

Fixed a 35 year old tape of my 1year old son. Thank you very much!

[katgarcia]

I am a 25 year-old woman who has never used the camcorder nor cassette tapes in her entire life. Except for VHS tapes when I was a kid. and I’ve been tasked with the responsibility of splicing the magnetic tape and I just want to thank you so much for

[rickywilliams]

Thank you so much, I was able to fix the tape of my daughter's birth. I am now converting it to MP4. Thanks again for taking the time to make this video!

[rogercardenas]

I have a box of old concert footage from the 90s and while transferring them some busted a long the way. Now in the 80s I could do this to VHS tapes and cassettes but an 8mm?!!! Never I'm so glad I found this video as your method is the best versus cracking it open and fixing it the longer way. This just saved me some memories time and money and for that I subscribed and left this comment. I will also share this video and as soon as I find the like button you get one as well thank you sir.

[rasm]

Fixed my 25 year old wedding tape for transfer in 5 minutes. Thank you!

[manuelalimaml]

Thank you so much for this vid. It saves so old memories. Greeting from Germany

[delsurmusic]

I'm a sound eng. and a tape was given to me to restore the audio. First step I needed to "fish" the broken tape!. Thanks for the tutorial, it worked really well!.

[danam]

Awesome!!! I can't thank you enough. Repaired a very special tape in minutes.

[Leirae]

Thank you for this! I've been wanting to see some old family tapes

[JaySkip]

Great trick! I do video transfers and normally I take the tape apart to fix them but this saves me a lot of time! 👏

[awarebear]

Outstanding Tutorial. Suggest once the tape is repaired you should ASAP transfer the data from 8mm or VHS to DVD or Digitize as MP4 at a minimum, to preserve important images and perhaps priceless memories for the future. This is particularly important since tape is now a repaired VHS or 8mm tape. Thanks for the great tutorial.

[samrameas]

That was awesome! I am going to start using that technique on my old cassette tapes! Thanks Media nerd!

[JarrydHall]

Great video - very informative! I don’t love the sound effects (oh boy!) but everything else is absolutely top notch. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. :)

[joybalagat]

Thank you now i can fix my broken 8mm tapes. Very helpful tutorials.🙏

[MisterMidnight-fr]

The "fishing" method is interesting, I have repaired tons of 8mm tapes over the past several decades and it takes very little time to remove the screws and open up the shell. Often times the tape is not loose on the spool so you have open the shell anyway. One step that seemed to be missed is after the tape is spliced it is suggested to rub over the scotch tape splice area with a small cloth to press it firmly to the videotape. Lastly, I NEVER splice both sides of the tape, you should ONLY splice the side that does not go up against the heads. A loose tape splice on the head side could damage the head. Some 8mm vcr's are very sensitive to splices, especially wide splices. I cut the splicing tape to 1/2 the width so the splice is about 1/4" wide.