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TAPES 'N TAPES
07/26/2008
In case you weren't paying attention back in the day, some cassettes, in particular those by WEA, were held together by screws while others are assembled through ultrasonic welding, which uses energy from high-frequency acoustic vibrations to melt the contact point between parts to create a joint.
Pack Central's customer base is almost entirely composed of prisoners—that's jailed prisoners, as in incarcerated in institutional correctional facilities.
Since I have never been a prisoner, I'm not sure what inmates can do with cassette screws, but I have no doubt that prison guards could tell you of some nefarious uses that they have come across.
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