ckerr
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Recently bought a new house and in the attic was a cool 8 track player and a massive box of 8 tracks all knackered from the cold etc of the attic.
Anyone any ideas of something cool they coild be repurposed into?
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brc76
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Is it a car or home 8 track player?
If you have a home hifi, and don't just want to play the 8 tracks, you could gut it and hide a small form media player inside.
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Last Edit: Jun 8, 2020 7:53:03 GMT by brc76
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ckerr
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It's a home 8 track, actually Preet cool wee box, with some speaker that match. It was more the cassettes themselves, there's a big box of them left behind by the previous owners and it seems a sin to chuck them, but they are also knackered. Will have to get my thinking hat on.
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awoo
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Jun 10, 2020 16:59:29 GMT
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How are they knackered?
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ckerr
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Jun 10, 2020 17:48:21 GMT
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They were in an old suitcase in the attic with plenty of mold, some of the cassettes were also moldy, assume they would be past there best lol.
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brc76
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Jun 10, 2020 17:55:15 GMT
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They may well be fine.
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awoo
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Jun 10, 2020 20:20:04 GMT
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Yeah they’re probably perfectly fine. Just wipe the grot off before playing them
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Jun 16, 2020 10:46:29 GMT
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I've got an old non working Rexton 8 track in my beetle and was thinking of modifying an 8 track tape to hide my phone in as the hidden modern headunit has bluetooth. Just need to pick up a cartridge to play around with at some point. 
I've seen a few modified to hold a Raspberry Pi or a dock for an ipod.
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frodo
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Jun 16, 2020 12:12:35 GMT
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If anyone is interested I have a car 8 track player, converted to also have an iPod dock, that also receives FM radio - quite a rare combo. Comes with a box of 75 retro 8 tracks!
I’m after about £100 for the lot.
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Jun 17, 2020 13:23:12 GMT
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If anyone is interested I have a car 8 track player, converted to also have an iPod dock, that also receives FM radio - quite a rare combo. Comes with a box of 75 retro 8 tracks! I’m after about £100 for the lot. oooh that sounds good |
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ckerr, frodo, I'm looking for two-ish specific 8-track cartridges, if anyone has them. The first is a "Motoring Sounds" or "Music to Drive By" (I presume that's "music by which to drive", not sounds specifically selected to play while you're conducting a drive-by shooting) and it has a picture of a HP Firenza (Droopsnoot) on it, not the more usual Jensen Interceptor. The other is anything by The Stranglers on 8-track.
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frodo
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Jun 18, 2020 22:25:15 GMT
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Sorry, neither are in the 8 track box...
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Worth a try, thanks for asking. I always search through the boxes of cartridges when I see them at autojumbles, but they're usually the same dealers with the same stock. I think the Stranglers ones are American-issue anyway, so less likely to be just floating around.
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brc76
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Jun 19, 2020 12:32:11 GMT
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I'll keep my eye out over this side of the pond. I rarely see any 8 track tapes, but you never know!
The radio station I worked at in high school had a lot of albums on 8 track, we also did all our PSA and commercials on 8 track. This was 1990-1994.
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Last Edit: Jun 19, 2020 12:35:17 GMT by brc76
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Jun 19, 2020 17:08:18 GMT
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Oooh...8 track...takes me back to being 5 or 6 rocking to Mud in the back of our Daf 44. Think that might just date me...!!😁
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Del
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Jun 19, 2020 17:25:13 GMT
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Worth a try, thanks for asking. I always search through the boxes of cartridges when I see them at autojumbles, but they're usually the same dealers with the same stock. I think the Stranglers ones are American-issue anyway, so less likely to be just floating around. Surely you mean 'Hanging Around'?  |
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Last Edit: Jun 19, 2020 17:28:15 GMT by Del
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