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Here is a discussion I found in Norwegian and some guy has a hand held demagnetizer for sale, about a month ago. I also found this Swedish place http://www.svalander.se/vinyl/casdemag.htm , perhaps what they are selling is of good quality but it is expensive. I bought one from ebay (which I know yo...

Thanks for making me waste much of my Saturday morning, Boray

d0c, your link doesn't work

I didn't think it was possible to do that, but maybe it is better. But I need tape of the right length it may be difficult to find.

Oops, I'll make sure I have the right gear, thanks

Thank you everybody. I have a demagnetizer cassette (there are many many of those on ebay) but the datassette is too weak to turn it, but it is possible to help turn it a little bit manually if you remove the datassette lid. I am thinking that if some games are too far gone I can repair them by usin...

I am really tempted to start downloading these... I don't do that yet

@zhx - I like your blog!

I don't know if it would solve the problem but replacing the fuse is easy, all you need to do is to open the case. The fuse sits in a small holder and you can take it out and put a new one in without any special tools.

Today I acquired a working datassette with Load-it. It has got perhaps ten LEDs that tell you how strong the signal from the tape is and you dial in the strongest possible signal when attempting to load something. For one game I got maybe 6/10 and it loaded OK. For other games the signal was lower. ...

the dude of dudes wrote:It's called a cold joint

Or a dry joint. It is caused by insufficient heat so that the solder does not take properly (you get bubbles between the pieces you mean to solder together). The current jumps across the joint rather than flows. This joint will eventually fail.

But it's not going to be a good investment to buy a house in the middle of nowhere. I wouldn't do that. But then again I prefer cities (I don't know if you would call Uppsala a city but it's alright).

I'd buy a DC2N, but they're not available yet, are they?

Happy Birthday! I hope you have a nice evening.

"Mange tak" gets the message across, though. Long live scandinavianism.

Nice. But I can't believe how expensive shipping is from the UK to mainland Europe... I only buy small things from there.