Eleanore was just 2 when her mom died, and her father had been hoping to surprise her with the tapes on her 18th birthday.

“If you had a really moldy tape, there was mold flying everywhere,” Crouch told me about existing cleaning methods. “I just finally decided there had to be a better way. So I sat down and started ...

This is a VHS tape which works in standard VHS players ... apart for a demonstration of the inside mechanism. This consists out of effectively just two parts: one plastic, spring-loaded shape ...