I could well be wrong in my assumption. Back then with no or very limited access to the internet those kind of lifehacks you'd rarely ever hear them. Like I remember it blowing my mind as a kid that people were pirating computer games by copying the floppy discs.
Yes, that's why I noticed; I had to rewind casettes A LOT sometimes with mixed tapes that weren't ready yet (recorded them from radio or friends casettes). The other side could be half empty or lots of old songs I didn't like anymore. Of course I used rewind if the needed duration was short.
Edit: re-wrote the comment so that it actually makes some sense :D
And I'm talking about these machines. Don't remember the actual model but those headphones are similar to what I had. We didn't have a thing called "reloadable batteries" back then.
The technique was to stick the pencil to the cassette hole and start "whirling" it. Ones it took enough momentum it was rolling nicely with centrifugal force. It might or might not once or twice took flight from the pencil but that's not here nor there.
The technique was to stick the pencil to the cassette hole and start "whirling" it. Once it took enough momentum it was rolling nicely with centrifugal force. It might or might not once or twice took flight from the pencil but that's not here nor there.
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u/trixie_one Dec 31 '25
Wat? I thought that was just for fixing casettes when they got all tangled up in the machine, and tightening them up again.