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Offline endlandmusic

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Technics RS 1520
« on: July 24, 2013, 12:05:58 PM »
Hello
finally I am a proud owner of a 1520, pretty rare in here in europe.
It was a sold as it is machine. optically o.k. Audio units are fully working.
It has the following problems: After powering on everything is o.k.. Pressing play, the right take up motor doesn't spin.
pressing rewind the machine starts to rewind, but doesn't accept any commands, until powering off.
Any idea ? I have another two 1500s and a 1700 which I both refurbished. If absolutely necessary, I can take one 1500 for parts.
Greetings from Switzerland
Jens

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Re: Technics RS 1520
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2013, 12:20:03 PM »
The first thing to try is leave the machine on for a few hours. Sometimes a capacitor needs to reform for the controller board to work properly.
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