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22nd Mar 2017, 3:27 pm | #1 |
Hexode
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Featherstone, West Yorkshire, UK.
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Cassette deck spare parts
An elderly chap has given me an old Decca cassete recorder to repair.
Where have all the suppliers for generic spare parts gone? I need a mono cassette head and a pinch wheel; the ony company I have found offering these is Wagner in Australia. Regards Kevin |
23rd Mar 2017, 1:09 am | #2 |
Octode
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK.
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Re: Cassette deck spare parts
Kevin, can't help with pinch roller but I've an 'as new' mono head, the type with a 'guide' attached to the side. I could also let you have a old cheapie mono cassette machine which has a still quite decent pinch roller (not shiny and still feels quite rubbery), I was just keeping it for parts as it's rubber drive belt has gone. Off to see a relative in Normanton on Friday so if any are useful I could drop them off en route.
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23rd Mar 2017, 8:54 am | #3 |
Heptode
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, UK.
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Re: Cassette deck spare parts
Cricklewood list a pinch roller. No details of sizew etcq but only £1 and most likely to be a generic cassette typ. Worth a punt?
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23rd Mar 2017, 11:36 am | #4 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Oxford, UK.
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Re: Cassette deck spare parts
A couple of pinch rollers still availablke from CPC: http://cpc.farnell.com/webapp/wcs/st...pinch%20roller
Heads seem to have disappeared about 5-10 years ago. |
23rd Mar 2017, 12:44 pm | #5 |
Octode
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Re: Cassette deck spare parts
I've now found some NEW pinch rollers I'd forgotten I had; (hadn't put them with the other, VHS, pinch rollers but in the 'belts' box)
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23rd Mar 2017, 12:46 pm | #6 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Madrid, Spain / Wirral, UK
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Re: Cassette deck spare parts
just found this - would probably be ideal, seems like they sell 'em new from china.
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23rd Mar 2017, 4:39 pm | #7 |
Nonode
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Milton Keynes, Bucks. UK.
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Re: Cassette deck spare parts
They're the same type that CPC sell (or used to sell)
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27th Mar 2017, 1:18 pm | #8 |
Hexode
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Featherstone, West Yorkshire, UK.
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Re: Cassette deck spare parts
Many thanks to you all, I have bookmarked tyhe pages you highlighted.
I wonder why Wagner Australia seems to have such a good range of these items, when no one else keeps them? Regards. Kevin |