Pizza stone at 425 for 6 minutes, then broil for 60 seconds.

Why would you want that thing to die? A cassette adapter is basically a tiny magnet spinning a wheel, there's nothing in it to break. You got five years out of a $6 piece of plastic that was probably made in 1998, and you're sitting here hoping it fails so you can drop real money on a head unit that some kid will steal out of your Ranger in a Walmart parking lot. Meanwhile your FM transmitter picked up static because FM radio is garbage, not because the transmitter was bad. Keep the adapter, save your cash, and stop wishing death on the only thing in that truck that still works.

Man, this is such a real thing. People hand you stuff all the time and it lands way harder than anything you pick yourself, a song on a mixtape, a book off a friend's shelf, a random flyer someone shoves in your hand at a show. There's something about no money being on the line that makes you actually pay attention. Ray sounds like the kind of guy every con needs at least one of.