Re: DAT mechanism service?
It has been a bit of an animal, eating tapes! After I dismantled the transport and used 100% alcohol to remove the old hardened grease it is behaving better but it sometimes doesn’t drive the take-up spool properly. I’m running it with the covers off so I can see if there’s tape spilling and stop the function but I’d quite like to use it without worrying!
It has a new belt but I suspect that the clutch to the take-up spool may be misbehaving. It does fast wind both ways without problem. It seems to me that maybe going from play to fast wind is an issue, or maybe going straight into fast forward. I’ll check tomorrow.
Fortunately I do have some “sacrificial” tapes.....
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Richard
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