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Originally Posted by DMcMahon
So is the Take up spool now free to manually rotate (should spin quite easily) with brake off ?
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Yes.
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Originally Posted by DMcMahon
When the tape up spool struggles in Play does the tape still get fed through by the capstan operation ?
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Yes... and that becomes/became a big problem!
I say 'became', because I have now solved this problem... by inserting a washer between the bottom gubbins and the white disc bearing the furry ring. Was there a washer there originally that flew out when I first disassembled?
So I started listening to the tape that has come with this machine. On this, someone was tuning through the FM radio band in the year 1981. I was able to deduce the year from one of the news items. Is there a sort of 'analogue' smoothness to the sound or am I imagining it? Whatever, the quality is really excellent and it makes strangely fascinating listening. I am now a R2R tape 'convert'.
More developments soon.