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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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11th Jan 2017, 8:49 am | #1 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Kington, Herefordshire, UK.
Posts: 3,675
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Aiwa XDS 1100 DAT
I've been having a bit of a fixing binge lately, and my eye lit upon this Aiwa DAT machine, bought ages ago at Richer Sounds. It was sluggish to load and refused to play. I thought it was a sticky loading arm, the problem which afflicts the Sony DTC-1000s which will succeed it on the bench, but no such luck - all pivots were free, which is quite a result given the minimal use the machine has had.
So, pull out the transport chassis for a closer look. The transport electronics sit on a double-sided board on the underside of the transport. Something fell out as I turned it over - a 100u surface-mount electrolytic! Extracted the board and found about fifteen surface mount and pseudo-surface mount electrolytics in various states of deshabille and gunk spreading over the board. A clean-up and re-cap with conventional radials was all that was needed to restore correct operation. |
11th Jan 2017, 1:40 pm | #2 |
Octode
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Liss, Hampshire, UK.
Posts: 1,875
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Re: Aiwa XDS 1100 DAT
Good to hear a DAT success story Ted. I've got a Tascam DA20 and a Sony DTC55ES that both need fixing one of these days.
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