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Old 4th Aug 2020, 5:04 pm   #27
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Default Re: Grundig TK141 advice

Compare Dave's post #3, photo 1 with your post #13 photo 1.
You'll see in Dave's there's a black rubber brake pad to the right of the right hand reel above the tape counter. On yours it looks like the arm that holds it goes under the reel which is strange as it shouldn't fit!
You'll note that both Michael Maurice and myself made the point that the top deck should never be removed. However, judging by the screws it appears someone has done this, possibly to do a belt change, which should be done from below. If this is the case, the levers are held in slots on the top and bottom decks, sandwiched between them Replacing the top deck requires three or four tiny hands to locate all these at once and Grundig's advice not to do this is well made. If the lower part of the brake arm isn't in its slot, the arm will fall and I suspect that's what's happened here.
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