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Old 16th Feb 2020, 1:03 am   #154
Ted Kendall
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Default Re: Grundig TK 819 Any Useful Info

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Originally Posted by ricard View Post
Even if the gap has started to widen, I would think there would be some form of signal from the tape, even if it completely lacks treble and is overall weaker than expected.
Started to widen? We used to joke about heads being worn down to the windings, but these appear to run that pretty close. The gaps are about 1mm, where they were originally 10uM or so. A degausser should give some output, agreed, but the extinction frequency for that gap length must be in the tens of Hz at best.
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