[TonyDuell]

A few days ago I bought a Philips N4450 (the complex one, 3 motors, 6 heads, autoreverse, etc). It's now in bits on the bench, and I have a few questions.

I have downloaded the English service manual, but I have also found a 2-part service manual in German. Part 2 of the latter seems to be the same as the common English service manual, part 1 looks to be theory-of-operation and contains things that are not in the English manual, like the circuit of the capstan motor. Does anyone have Part 1 of the service manual in English (I can't find it with Google)?

The user manual states that the machine will either stop at the end of the tape or can be set to record/play left-to-right, then autoreverse, do the same right-to-left and then stop. It goes on to say that if you want continuous operation (autoreverse at both ends of the tape) to see your dealer. I assume there was a modification to do this, does anyone know what it involved? I can't see anything about it in the English service manual