[Michael Maurice]

I checked the fuses and they were OK more to the point I found that if you operated the cassette housing out of the machine, it loaded and unloaded as if there was a tape.

Put the housing back and it didn't like it!

I eventually found it had something to do with the unlocking bar being slightly bent, I bent it back by pushing hard on it and that seems to have cured it!

BUT

now I have another fault: in both FF or REW the machine operates for a second or two then stops, you can try it time after time but it still stops after a couple of seconds.

Its ok in picture search both ways.

Any ideas?