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TAPE CARE TIPS

Preventing Accidental Erasure

Most cassette tapes have two erase- protection tabs — one for each side. To protect a recording from accidentally be- ing recorded over or erased, use a screwdriver to remove one or both of the cassette tape’s erase-protection tabs.

If you want to record on a tape side after you have removed the erase-protection tab, place a piece of strong plastic tape over that side’s erase-protection hole.

Cut off excess plastic tape

Notes:

Be sure you cover only the hole that was originally covered by the erase- protection tab.

Removing the erase-protection tabs does not prevent a bulk eraser from erasing a cassette tape.

Erasing a Cassette Tape

If you no longer want a recording, you can record over it or erase it.

To erase a previously recorded section of a tape, simply record over it.

To erase the entire cassette tape, record silence by setting FUNCTION SELECTOR to TAPE and recording with no tape in TAPE 2.

You can quickly erase both sides of a cassette tape using a bulk tape eraser (such as Cat. No. 44-232), available at your local RadioShack store.

Cleaning the Tape-Handling Parts

Dirt, dust or particles of the tape's coat- ing can accumulate on the tape heads and other parts that the tape touches. This can greatly reduce the performance of the cassette player. After every 20 hours of tape player operation, use a cassette deck cleaning kit (Cat. No. 44- 1202) or follow these steps to clean the tape-handling parts.

1.Disconnect the AC power cord.

2.Open the cassette compartment doors on TAPE 1 and TAPE 2.

3. Press PLAY on TAPE 1 and TAPE 2 to expose the tape-handling parts.

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