dacflyer wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:50 am
I remember that hot dog cooker, i actually made something like it for science fair back when i was in elementary school. I was to smart for my own good back then,,the stuff i made for science fair back then, would be considered devious now days.
Yeah,
The old nails hammered in to a 2X4, and wired to an AC Lamp cord and a switch.
{Had to use the skinless Hot Dogs mostly, because Casing Wieners would tend to pop or explode.}
dacflyer wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:50 ami still have 2 Betamax players made by SONY, they came out of one of the 1st few video Juke Boxes.. which failed quickly.
the players were nicely made.
i still have a few betamax tapes. one is a Duran Duran concert.
but most of the betamax tapes i ever saw were ####3, never saw too much commercial content or movies.
I've repaired a few Beta Machines, but I never saw one of the "Beta Juke Boxes".
Well, do yourself a favor if you going to still hold on to those tapes.
Pull them out every two years or so, and put them into a "Video Tape Rewinder/Fast Forwarder".
Don't put them in to your BetaMax too do the FF/RW of the Tape.
You'll end up having the tape getting stuck in the machine, and possibly ruining the tape.
I've had, as well as customers putting in old tapes into they're VCR's and have this happen.
This is caused by the binding material on the tape,{A type of glue} that hold the Iron & other metal oxides to the Video Tape.
Here's a good {Downloadable PDF} guide on Video Tape Storage:
http://thehaisho.com/forums/download/file.php?id=2
dacflyer wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:50 ami still got a shoe box full of vintage 8MM movies.. Hmmmm
I took my Dads old 8MM movies, and put them on VHS tapes, and then transfer them to DVD.
The 8MM films were starting to break down when I put them on tape.
Thus, the colors were some what yellowed.
Luckily, The Panasonic Color Camera had Color and Tint adjustments.
So I could compensate for the yellowing, and get the colors back too somewhat normal.
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