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13th Aug 2007, 1:57 pm
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Retired Dormant Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Runcorn, Cheshire, UK.
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"Documentor" battery portable
I've just acquired a very old "Documentor" portable reel-to-reel, looks to be early Sixties vintage. Does anyone know anything about these machines? It's quite heavy, obviously solidly built, capstan driven and uses AC erase. Tape spools are 3". There's no battery cover but looking at the battery compartment the machine is meant to run on some sort of slot-in battery pack.
Does anyone know of a source of 3" tapes? My collection to date: Documentor portable Aiwa TP-60 Uher 4000-L Report mono Uher 4200 IC stereo Akai Cross-Field X-IV Superscope (Marantz) CD-330 professional stereo cassette Pete Last edited by Mersey_Swimmer; 13th Aug 2007 at 2:03 pm. |
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13th Aug 2007, 5:08 pm
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Heptode
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Paignton, Devon, UK.
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Re: "Documentor" battery portable
Don't know that one, do you have a picture?
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13th Aug 2007, 5:25 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Ramsbottom (Nr Bury) Lancs or Bexhill (Nr Hastings) Sussex.
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Re: "Documentor" battery portable
I think I've got some tapes in Rammy [somewhere] and could let you have a few iwhen I find them. Back there in a week or so. Dave
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14th Aug 2007, 1:12 pm
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Heptode
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
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Re: "Documentor" battery portable
If you can take a shot of the battery compartment, I can make an educated guess to what fit inside.
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14th Aug 2007, 5:55 pm
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Retired Dormant Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Runcorn, Cheshire, UK.
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Re: "Documentor" battery portable
Hi everyone,
Thanks for your replies. Couldn't photograph it today 'cos of the awful weather (no room to snap it indoors at the moment!!) but assuming the sun comes out tomorrow I'll take a few pics. Pete |
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30th Sep 2007, 6:16 pm
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Retired Dormant Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Cornwall,Ontario
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Re: Uher 4000 Report IC
To all that may help me on this,
I just got my hands on one of these recorders here in Canada and want to know more about this recorder. It came with Power Unit and Battery CHarger Model # Z 125 A1 . This unit works well and is a 4 speed model and came with many acc. and came with a set of A K C headphone/microphone set. I know very little about this and would like to know what this recorder is worth. Thanks... Robert |
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2nd Oct 2007, 10:54 am
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Hobart Australia
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Re: "Documentor" battery portable
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Iv got an Akai X-1V too  , 4 speed, solid state, direct drive belt for play and very nice. They do hum a little bit which I think has to do whith the proximity of the amp and motor. I find it hard to beleive they were made in 1964. Mine has one dicky meter as you would expect for something old. Anyway they take 5 inch spool whith 1/4 inch tape.
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