How To Repair A VHS Tape - Melted

A client gave me a box of melted video tape and asked if I could repair and save the tapes. This is the first video of a three part series of me trying to recover these severely damaged tapes.
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[@ichibanboy6]

Totally awesome video!

[@TheMediaNerdMT]

Thanks so much!

[@patrickcardon1643]

They know the oven does not serve to store VHS tapes? 😁 Simply amazing the tape survived the carnage!

[@TheMediaNerdMT]

I'm still in disbelief that the tape survived. However, I have 2 or 3 more VHS tapes that look the same way.

[@MaioFourpaws]

My brother with zero-forethought put the box of ALL 50-ish of our family home movies on the ledge of the gas fireplace 2 days before I was to pick it up to digital transfer the contents. He melted the cases almost all of them. I was devastated to say the least! Now I have hope since some of them seem to have intact film. Thank you for this video!

[@TheMediaNerdMT]

That is terrible! If the tape itself is not damaged there is hope. This reminds me of a time when I first got into video production. My boss had shot about 20 hours of training footage on mini dv tapes. I was later hired to edit the videos. He had placed all of the tapes on a huge speaker. Of course, speakers have magnets in them. When I went to play the mini dv tapes, they had all been wiped clean from the magnet which is also called degaussed.

[@patrickdesilets5209]

Very helpful, thank you for the video! Fingers crossed for my own attempt!..

[@TheMediaNerdMT]

Fingers crossed!

[@fatcat2899]

Thanks for the video

[@TheMediaNerdMT]

Thanks for watching!

[@stevesilverman3505]

Maybe it was in a hot summer car?

[@TheMediaNerdMT]

maybe