This is the follow-on video from my Can we make toy car wheels from a VHS tape cassette.\r
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I have had questions about my toy car projects about what can be used for wheels. Most of the time I use scrap CDs or DVDs. Last night whilst surfing YouTube I noticed a video on repairing broken VHS tapes and I realised that the plastic spools inside the cassette that could potentially be used as wheels. The next task was to find some VHS tape cassettes that I could disassemble. This proved harder than I expected as even charity shops no longer stock them. Eventually I found a charity shop that leaves them in a box by the front door with a sign saying Free - help yourself.\r
Taking the cassette apart was easy enough. Only one of the cassettes had an anti-tamper screw on it, all the others were normal cross-head screws and as I only wanted to salvage the spools I didnt waste time fussing with the rogue screw and forced the case apart with a bit of gentle persuasion.\r
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Components\r
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1 VHS tape cassette\r
sheet of cardboard\r
drinking straw\r
garden cane or\r
wooden skewer\r
balloon\r
ballpen tube\r
2 rubber bands\r
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Tools\r
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Hot Glue Gun\r
Small crosshead screwdriver\r
Drill\r
Hobby knife\r
Ruler\r
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