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Originally Posted by julie_m
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Originally Posted by some new arrival in the near future
I've just bought an old BSR Elizabethan tape recorder with some tape reels. It looks very nice but there are some problems with it. The reels won't go round in fast forward or rewind and the record switch does not do anything. I think the fan belt may have snapped? Also I think something is getting very hot inside, and it smells like oniony farts. Do I just need to put some new valves in it?
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Is the "onion fart" niff the selenium rectifier packing in? People say selenium diodes smell awful when they burn out, but I've never read a detailed description of the smell. Is it something like garlic, or more like rotten eggs?