Weird Shells

[speakerman1]

I can get these for a song. I never saw anything like it. Take a gander. I can get around 2500.

Larry

 

[stuwee]

Those are weird, the 1st pic is the back, and the 2nd pic is the front? Never seen any like those before, who makes them?

 

[speakerman1]

Michelex. They are out of business. They and Lenco made some of the best shells.

Larry

 

[Web Police]

I'd buy few and use them for spare shells.

 

[speakerman1]

They are welded not screwed.

Larry

 

[speakerman1]

I was thinking of doing a different color ink scheme on the back. Like 3 or 4 different colors. With a special announcement or something.

Larry

 

[Web Police]

They are welded not screwed.

Larry

I could crack em open. That also raises a question, how does your loading machine attach the tape and or leader to the hubs if the shell is welded? I always figured they welded the shells together after the tape was loaded?

 

[Web Police]

I was thinking of doing a different color ink scheme on the back. Like 3 or 4 different colors. With a special announcement or something.

Larry

Maybe a "Phoenix Special Edition" tape or a "Phoenix Anniversary Tape"?

 

[speakerman1]

I was thinking of doing a different color ink scheme on the back. Like 3 or 4 different colors. With a special announcement or something.

Larry

Maybe a "Phoenix Special Edition" tape or a "Phoenix Anniversary Tape"?

Yepper. I'm getting some good tape tomorrow.

Larry

 

[speakerman1]

They are welded not screwed.

Larry

I could crack em open. That also raises a question, how does your loading machine attach the tape and or leader to the hubs if the shell is welded? I always figured they welded the shells together after the tape was loaded?

Ok here is the process. Vacuum sucks the leader out. Then it is cut and the tape is spliced to the leader. You put ho many feet for a C60. The machine knows how many feet has been loaded and cuts the tape and splices it to the other end of the leader. There is a motor that puts a capstan in the shell and then it is off to the races. It is very fast. So it is all done with the shell intact. The machine either accepts the tape and shoots it one way or rejects the tape and sends it another way.

Ok since you guys have shown interest. I will buy them. Web I will load you a Gold cassette also. I have 3 left. I could buy more of the Gold shells; but at my cost of over 0.75 each. It will be awhile before I buy more.

Larry

 

[Web Police]

Ok here is the process. Vacuum sucks the leader out. Then it is cut and the tape is spliced to the leader. You put ho many feet for a C60. The machine knows how many feet has been loaded and cuts the tape and splices it to the other end of the leader. There is a motor that puts a capstan in the shell and then it is off to the races. It is very fast. So it is all done with the shell intact. The machine either accepts the tape and shoots it one way or rejects the tape and sends it another way.

Ok since you guys have shown interest. I will buy them. Web I will load you a Gold cassette also. I have 3 left. I could buy more of the Gold shells; but at my cost of over 0.75 each. It will be awhile before I buy more.

Larry

So when you receive the shells they already have hubs and leaders in them. Now if I could just get the leader out of the shell I could splice my own tape on to it and wind it back in the shell.

As far as the gold shell yup I am interested in one. And these shells, I will have to wait till you load something in them. I am assuming these shells are type II? or re they type I?

 

[speakerman1]

Ok here is the process. Vacuum sucks the leader out. Then it is cut and the tape is spliced to the leader. You put ho many feet for a C60. The machine knows how many feet has been loaded and cuts the tape and splices it to the other end of the leader. There is a motor that puts a capstan in the shell and then it is off to the races. It is very fast. So it is all done with the shell intact. The machine either accepts the tape and shoots it one way or rejects the tape and sends it another way.

Ok since you guys have shown interest. I will buy them. Web I will load you a Gold cassette also. I have 3 left. I could buy more of the Gold shells; but at my cost of over 0.75 each. It will be awhile before I buy more.

Larry

So when you receive the shells they already have hubs and leaders in them. Now if I could just get the leader out of the shell I could splice my own tape on to it and wind it back in the shell.

As far as the gold shell yup I am interested in one. And these shells, I will have to wait till you load something in them. I am assuming these shells are type II? or re they type I?

They are typeIs; but I can load anything in them. Will see what I get tomorrow. I know I'm getting Some TDK-SA. I think 11 pancakes. Plus more shells. And some other tape. I can also get some cobalt. I can always put a Type II tape in it and you play it as a Type I. The highs come to life that way.

To hand wind a cassette would not be fun. LOL Just loading a pancake on the machine it wants to unspool. I think a C-90 is close to 500 feet of tape. LOL

Larry

 

[Web Police]

Yep 562.5 feet of tape in a C-90. I wouldn't be loading by hand lol that would take forever. I would either build a small cassette loader or just crack the shell open and re weld it shut. I have done it on many a pre-recorded tape.

Anyway let me know when you get them and I'll buy some of them from you. Some loaded and some empty would be nice.

 

[orange]

Hey Larry, might you save the last five metals on the site and some of these for March?

I'm betting the cold will be gone enough by then that the natural gas bill will return to close to the cost of 'pilot-only' service I'm required to have year round HUD.

 

[speakerman1]

yeppers can do guys.

larry