It's not a contraption it's your video tape cleaner! This is the best way to deal with sticky tape syndrome.

As @DrainCleaningAustralia quotes Mark Twain, "Find a job you enjoy doing, and you'll never have to work a day in your life." Thank you so much for taking us along for the ride and giving us the knowledge that we'd need to follow the same path.

This is a man who takes craftmanship in his work. Bravo!

Honestly big respect for recovering molded tapes

I think some people want to watch videos without worrying about noise or shaky images.I think it's wonderful that digitalization can produce beautiful images while reducing excess noise.

That was in no manner, boring! I thoroughly enjoyed it! What an impressive set up. I can't wait to see more. I love how you collect everything and build your own devices to make the transfer's work. Thoroughly impressed. I have no cassette to rescue but, I do like to watch you work. Best of luck to you and your customers. I hope you gone on to retirement. Many good years of business to you!

thank you so much for sharing this!!!! I've been horrified to digitize some of my own family's tapes because of the mold. still new to the hobby of vhs and loving every second.

Awesome job, great instructional videos.

Moldy tapes can ruin the video head and this is probably the reason why large companies reject them, or glued ones. They generally want something that turns quickly and produces a lot in a short time, every minute cleaning is wasted time. It must be good to recover old memories, a feeling of accomplishment and joy for the customer.

Sou apaixona por esses tipo de trabalho, parabéns!

You should add a network attached storage system, that way you can simply transfer from the internal HDD of each system to the main NAS storage without having to use a external HDD. Look into the QNAP systems..worth the upfront cost. If you want to go crazy, run everything on a 2.5 or 10GB ethernet network and youll having blazing speeds.

17:25 While the drive itself obviously has a certain longevity, it's nice that they tend to use pretty standardized cables, so if it's just the cable's connector that breaks down after a while, you can get a new cable for five or six bucks rather than buying a whole new drive.

Watching from the UK> Does touching the tape with your fingers lots effect the quality of playback at all, becuase on most tapes it says do not touch the tape inside. I still useing my old Sony SLV-SE740 to digitize old videos of pre recorded stuff i freind gave me. I rip all the old Adverts and Continuity off.

I used to do tape dubbing and with 4 or 5 machines going, most recordings don’t all stop at the same time, and would get hairy because they were mostly traffic scenes and looked similar, I had to rely on the information the requestor gave me and if was wrong I had to babysit and play the tape and sometimes take a still print of an incident. Your operation was much bigger than what I had. We had a machine that would clean and take a stretched tape and take all of the slack, sometimes manually winding a tape that was stretched would add an extra 5-10 minutes. Our tapes were recycled every 45 days so anew tape might have 3 or 4 passes before retirement after running for an 8 hour stint.

maybe setting up the usb drive on 1 mac and share the drive on the network you can access on the network hard wired would be best

Speaking of mouldy tapes. I had to deal with a whole heap of mouldy C Format 1 inch tapes what a lot of fun.

It would take a little bit of work to create it. I do wonder if creating some kind of small drip system with a tape unwinding vertically would help reduce the risk of sticky tapes ripping. So that cleaner liquid can get right to the source of the problem. Maybe some kind of rounded wedge that can be soaked in something as well. (but I'm probably over complicating things)

Hey from Australia, Sean. Great job on those tapes. I have access to a large stack of VHS with similar issues. Are you able to kindly advise an approx. price per tape to have them converted to digital? Thank you.

If you don't leave the tapes in your store overnight, then what do you do with them? I can understand not leaving them in a machine, or out in the open, but I'd think transporting would create more risk.

Great job, how many companies would go to that trouble to restore people’s memories. I have also cleaned people’s tapes of mound but so far have not had the sticky shed syndrome🙏🏻. Thank you for positive outlook, unlike some other channels.

Buy a cheap vcr and cycle the tape forward and back end to end abou a dozen times then put them in a half decent vcr and use a video capture card to transfer

Until you get your NAS, have you thought about doing a shared folder between the laptops?

i just got an idea for you to see if it might be possible after watching one of your other videos, you were cleaning a moldy tape and using something to clean and wind the tape and the tape got stuck and broke, maybe you could work with someone to figure out a way to make something that does the same thing, but if it detects it gets stuck and stop moving it immediately shuts off and beeps to let you know, just an idea

You ever get a box of homemade corn to transfer?

Great job. What in your opinion is the best brand and model vhs player for video quality in slow play? Thanks

Most people would either just see a moldy tape like that and instantly throw it in the trash, or try rewinding it only to have it split. I've had a few tapes that I spliced back together twice, only to have them immediately split again - and then I decided it wasn't worth the trouble.

where did you get those Geneva video tape cleaners?

Beautiful. Some notes, though: 1) Yes, you 1000% need a NAS. 2) Until you get one, you should be using the `sync` command in the MacOS terminal (or "safely unmount") after each copy to that external SSD. The OS will report that the writes are done before all the bits actually hit that disk. 3) Once you do get network storage, don't use wifi, run ethernet to each station. 4) Have your capture software drop files directly on the NAS to save some more time 5) Your network storage represents a potential value-add for customers, because now you can offer storage of those files for a recurring fee. 6) What video encoding settings are you using, and how did you come to that decision? 7) Given that you're regularly handling moldy tapes, are you using any sort of air filters?

Man! Don't do that by hand! Use a VCR that isn't very good and let the tape run in play mode. It will slowly peel off the tape. Or, use a damp cloth to force it inside the spool to clean the mold. I always do this and it works! It takes a lot of effort to pull the tape by hand.

Do you work with micro cassette?

19:40 :)

Surprised about the 'splicing tape' you are using. That's just normal tape, right? If one of the heads catches that, it's end of head. Definitely worth getting 1/2" reel to reel splicing tape. That stuff only sticks once, and does not stretch. Not expensive either. Speaking of audio tape; I see some half decent decks, why are you using the cheap plastic thing? Seems a waste! As for the server; Just a modern 4 bay synology NAS man. Two drives in raid for the customers, two drives in raid for your own stuff. you'll be good. So with you on the 'not leaving tapes overnight'. Makes a ton of sense. Also, hi to the chickens 🐓

Doesn't leave VHS tapes in the store overnight but leaves a ton of Mac laptops LOL....(I know, the Mac's can be replaced, the memories cannot...)

The fake+posed algorithm checklist thumbnails are getting to be a bit much.

Im thinking get on with it stop saying the same thing over and over

you need to understand that they are trying to protect their gear and follow health and safety protocols.. you do a great job but you know damn well why the sticker is there.

Would you sell the three matching crt's?