Tape Project Forum
Tape Machines => Reel to Reel Tape Machines => Topic started by: Fabio on March 07, 2010, 11:32:32 AM
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Dear Forum members,
I Trust you are doing great!
I hope you can give some guidance on the above issue.
I have changed the main belt following Big Dave guidelines and using a belt he provided (from Ebay UK).
This X-2000R has been kept in the box for the last 20 years and has no signs of usage at all!
I have put some gun/3-in-1 oil only in the specified places and cleaned the mechanical parts with Alcohol 95% and changed the belt.
Now the deck goes in Play perfectly, but if I try to push Fast Forward or Fast Rewind, the reels move very slowly and with very big difficulty.
Do I have to make any maintenance in the main two motors or in other parts? Can I have some guidance & help to have this great machine again 100% operational?
Thank you very much, I appreciate your assistance!
Best Regards,
Fabio
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Are you using a new reel of tape? If the tape is old, you may have defective (sticky) tape.
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Hello Tim,
Thank you for your reply!
I will check now if the FFWD has different behaviour depending the tape I load, even though all the tapes I have (and I love!) are old, recorded when my private radio station was still alive in the '80s!
Tim, is there any way to recover defective Sticky tapes? As said I am really attached to them!
Thank you again!
Best Regards,
Fabio
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An article on defective tapes and how to fix them.
http://www.tangible-technology.com/tape/baking1.html
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Thank you Tim!