Dear Mr. Colin, I came back to deeply thank you for this video because you saved me thousands of dollars by teaching me how to do this. I even found a technique to separating the sticky mold tape. I do it by hand (kind as if I'm threading - while wearing my covid mask, lol!). I have learned how the visual can be harmed by even having a bad casing. For some reason I have come to enjoy it and feel happy when my family finds a new uploaded video. This will be a great treat to display some of them on my parent's 50 year anniversary. Thank you, Thank you!!

I really nice video. I'm from the United States and love your channel.

Thank you very much for making this video. I was able to trim out the broken part, splice, de-mould, and digitize our home videos of my son's first year. He's in his 20's now, moved away, and we miss him. Thank you so much for giving us our memories back. I could not have done it without your help. Thank you.

So true!! I just started handling the very same problem of hi8 moulded tapes. Yes they snap exactly that way, and the described procedure is indeed crucial to be applied BEFORE trying to play them and convert them. I am currently building a similar “machine” to help me as I have around 20 hi8 cassettes to handle. Thank you SO MUCH for your video.

I can’t thank you enough Colin on the work you did on the tape that I had that had mold on it, amazing work and would highly recommend. Thank you.

I really appreciate your videos. I learned a lot.

Hi Colin. Great tutorial mate, thanks for your work and willingness to share with others.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, I hope you know how much people from around the world appreciate it!

Great work! I had no idea that there were people who repaired video tapes. Hugs from Brazil.

obviously EXPERIENCE is what makes you clever, but i think you just simply have a clever mind---you are also verbally clever and explain options and variations quite well----thank you!

Nice work. I am finally working on restoring some Handycam video8 tapes I recorded from 1994 to 2003 and this is very instructive.

Excellent video. Answered a lot of my questions about tape repair.

I too thank you for helping me transfer an old tape and I did some personal tinkering as well. I read on Wiki that methylated spirits causes mold to explode so I got a small piece of a A4 cartridge paper a dipped it into the metho then slid it parallel to the spool and onto the edge of the tape. Rotated it a few times and the mold vanished. I then fast forwarded the tape and rewound it to dry of any excess. No stick. You may frown but I hope not. Cheers.

Recently I modified an 8mm cassette shell to allow the back tension technique shown here by Colin, but while the reels are in the cassette shell. The whole exercise seems more controlled and manageable for me.

Hi Colin, Very interesting topic, most informative, Thank you. Simon.

Very useful. Thank you for showing how to fix the problem with mould, I have 5 old tapes that I'm now willing to attempt the repair of.

Just found your channel after pulling put my 8mm sony camcorder from 15-25 years ago and needing the mold solution for one or two tapes - great channel!

Thank you so much for this video, I was able to rescue some moldy tapes using this method that had really bad picture quality and now play perfectly! 👍👍

love it. such a genius. so much to learn here. Keep up the good content and thanks a lot!

Seen lots of tape with fold over but none yet with mould. Will keep my eyes open. I have one of those 8mm rewinders as well. Very handy units. I have a mini dv winder too.