no not connie. glad to hear about your brother. how have you been? where in pa do you live? i understand the anger but i cant do anything about that part of this equation. i can apologize, but as you are certainly aware, i thought i was being "caring" at the time. anyway, i am sorry. and your folks? have to go for a few hours but hopefully we can talk or say hi. anyway i have a "str8" based solution for your tape deck issue. go to walmart and stand in line to return the item, than go into a fake epileptic seizure and throw it and break it, and start screaming about corporate profits. you will get a new tape deck.