iPhone adapter issue...help?

[Purple Fencer]

Not actually a prob with my phone....but with something else.

My car in a 96 with a cassette deck. I have an adapter that slides into the deck that connects my speakers to my phone so I can use the iPod function while driving (better than carrying a crapload of cassettes in the car). The adapter looks like a cassette tape with a lead to a jack to plug into the phone.

I've used it for a few months now, and for some reason, the other day the deck started spitting out the adapter. I think it's the deck itself, since I bought another unit yesterday, and it still spits it out....however, the deck WILL play an actual music cassette.

Anyone have an idea of what might be going on here?

[jjefferies]

Several different things to look at:
1. Check to see if the cassette adapter's reels especially the takeup side move correctly. The old cassette decks often had a feature where when you got to the end of the tape it would either stop and eject or reverse itself. This was controlled by sensing whether the takeup side would stop.
2. Check the wire that runs from the adapter to your ipod. Usually this wire fits into the mini-jack where your earphones go. I've seen them get jammed and cause cassettes to be ejected.
3. Look at the carriage your cassette adapter fits into. Check that nothing is obviously bent or causing hang.

best

[Zilverzmurfen]

You need to rewind your iPhone and then it'll work as intended again...

[Purple Fencer]

Several different things to look at:
1. Check to see if the cassette adapter's reels especially the takeup side move correctly. The old cassette decks often had a feature where when you got to the end of the tape it would either stop and eject or reverse itself. This was controlled by sensing whether the takeup side would stop.

Except this isn't an actual cassette tape...it;s shaped like one, but it has pickups where the tape goes so the player can pick up the sound. The reels are dummies, and move freely.

2. Check the wire that runs from the adapter to your ipod. Usually this wire fits into the mini-jack where your earphones go. I've seen them get jammed and cause cassettes to be ejected.

Nope...the wire comes out of the deck with mo obstructions. Remember, I've been using the adapter for a few months now with no problems until the deck started rejecting it.

3. Look at the carriage your cassette adapter fits into. Check that nothing is obviously bent or causing hang.

Nope....a real music cassette goes in smoothly and plays properly...nothing's hanging up.

[OROD]

The solution to this is simple... buy a new car.

[Purple Fencer]

The solution to this is simple... buy a new car.

Others have given me that advice....like I can afford THAT!

[OROD]

Others have given me that advice....like I can afford THAT!

Haha, I said it was simple, not cheap.

[jjefferies]

Except this isn't an actual cassette tape...it;s shaped like one, but it has pickups where the tape goes so the player can pick up the sound. The reels are dummies, and move freely.
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Nope....a real music cassette goes in smoothly and plays properly...nothing's hanging up.

The issue is how the dummy reels move when the replica cassette is in the player. Is it possible that the two reels are supposed to be connected so that the takeup reel's turning is supposed to turn the reel that would be supplying the tape?

[Purple Fencer]

I don't think so....if it was, there would've been something connecting them on the first unit, which DID work for months. The 2nd one was brand new out of the box and still got ejected.

On both units, the dummy reels move freely.

And I just remembered there's an audio shop near work (on a road I normally don't travel, so I forgot about it)...I'll stop by when I go to unload my stuff today and see what they think.