[sdiy] OT: Repairing tape decks?

[Graham Atkins]

I had a deck with a mechanical tape counter driven by a belt. Counter  
failed and tape kept stopping. The counter drive shaft had the shutter  
on it that broke an opto switch so when the belt failed the transport  
stopped.

Graham

On 15 Dec 2011, at 14:35, Karl Ekdahl wrote:

> Hi list, sorry for the OT but i'm trying to get myself a tape deck  
> (casette) and so far i've already thrown away two broken ones and  
> about to do the same with this third one, but i figured maybe  
> someone knows how to fix these things. Being mostly mechanical i'm  
> at a loss..
>
> This particular deck exhibits pretty much the same behavior on both  
> sides (it's a dual), one side plays and sometimes rewinds -  
> otherwise anything i do (play, rewind, forward) makes the decks give  
> an "end of tape"-behavior, in other words it sounds like it tries to  
> move the tape but fails and decides it's at the end of the tape and  
> shuts down the operation. As far as i can see, all the rubber bands  
> seems to be OK. The deck is a Technics RS-T230, i've seen there are  
> service manuals out there but they cost ~5 times what i payed for  
> the actual deck...
>
> Thanks
>
> Karl
>
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