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Vintage Tape (Audio), Cassette, Wire and Magnetic Disc Recorders and Players Open-reel tape recorders, cassette recorders, 8-track players etc. |
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1st Oct 2008, 10:14 am | #1 |
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Philips N4418
Anyone on here have more knowledge of this HiFi Transistorised 3 speed, 3 motor Tape Recorder than me?? Having given the heads, pinchroller, tape guides and especially the capstan shaft a thorough cleaning, I at first had the machine running quite well, with decent quality sound & good speed stability, but later found that the speed changing switch made no difference-the recorder being stuck on 7.5ips regardless of the setting of the switch!(It HAD been working on all three speeds at first!!) Needless to say I have checked connections, PCBs for dry solder joints, operation of the speed change switch, removed plug-in modules, cleaned both contacts and sockets, put the modules back and still thething refuses to change speeds. Help!!! (i don't have even a circuit diagram for this rather complex machine, which doesn't help when trying to find a fault like this)
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1st Oct 2008, 12:18 pm | #2 |
Tetrode
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK.
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Re: Philips N4418
Hello,
I have had this fault on my N4418. It turned out to be the little tape head that picks up speed pulses from the flywheel, if my memory serves me correctly. I think it just required re-positioning, but I can't remember exactly how I did it, as it was a long time ago. Might be worth checking? Regards Peter. |
1st Oct 2008, 1:40 pm | #3 |
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Re: Philips N4418
Thanks, Pete-I didn't think about that.
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