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Post by vcautokid on Sept 4, 2019 17:03:18 GMT -5
    Kind of going my futures past. The Teac X7 is about Analog on the easy. Some mechanical bits still to go such as cleaning out the motor stator shafts and other little things but this Teac X7 is about more hands on. I don't do vinyl anymore but a Fluance Turntable keeps flirting with me, but no where to put it. Solves that. The TDK LX-35\90 non back coated by the way looks to be the diet of choice. I had some Ampex prior to the synthetic sticky tape shed nonsense that plagued later reels of Ampex tape. So far having allot of fun. It is not about what is better. Stupid discussion that. After a while you just have fun. If I want to stream I have that computer I got that will take care of that and much much more. Fast son of a gun too. Cinebench R20 it gave some Xeon Processor Servers a spanking. Only one threadripper and 2 Xeon Servers were faster. I can hang with that. 4th ain't so bad. Fastest computer I have ever had. But the faster I go, still the fun of backing it down just a bit has its appeal too. I can do, and do both. And why not? We get so wrapped up in what is so proper, we kind of forgot how to have fun. I had a ball taking this deck apart getting where it needed to be. Nice it was in such great shape for 30 plus years old. Dual Capstan drive and 3 motors 3 heads gets it done. None of the AC sintered bronze sleeve bearings that caused so many failures in the 3000 2000 and 5000 and 6000 series machines if you did not keep up with them. Rule you do cook with oil, or your reel and capstan motor cooks itself. The JVC has not been forgotten just on hold till I figure what I want to do with the alignment procedures etc. But the X7 Teac is living up quite well. Better than my X10 and X10R did interestingly since they come from the same family. I won't be getting any large 10.5 NAB reel machines anytime soon. I grew up first with 7 inch reels. Seems fitting to go home again just this once. |
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 4, 2019 17:15:52 GMT -5
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Post by 405x5 on Sept 5, 2019 9:43:45 GMT -5
You’re reminding me that I have a fall, reel to reel project to get to. I was given an AKAI reel to reel by a retired military buddy to play with. Don’t know anything about it yet. Except that it’s pretty old but appears to be in good shape. Along with that is my own box 📦 Of well stored tapes in a climate controlled closet to revisit. Could not play your video in the USA 🇺🇸 unfortunately. Bill |
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Post by AudioHTIT on Sept 5, 2019 10:11:41 GMT -5
I remember having an Akai 10” Reel to Reel back in 70s, it was unique in that it could do 4 track recording and playback or play stereo with auto reverse. It also did 3 3/4, 7 1/2 & 15 IPS, you could get a lot of playing time on a two sided 10” reel. One thing I really enjoyed was making an annual ‘mix tape’ which I gave to my brother for Christmas, he had a Pioneer with 10” reels and also loved music. Good times, good music! Oh, just did a search, I think this was it!  |
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Post by 405x5 on Sept 5, 2019 10:44:09 GMT -5
I remember having an Akai 10” Reel to Reel back in 70s, it was unique in that it could do 4 track recording and playback or play stereo with auto reverse. It also did 3 3/4, 7 1/2 & 15 IPS, you could get a lot of playing time on a two sided 10” reel. One thing I really enjoyed was making an annual ‘mix tape’ which I gave to my brother for Christmas, he had a Pioneer with 10” reels and also loved music. Good times, good music! Oh, just did a search, I think this was it! Wow! Your photo shows a machine 10 times of what I've got! I'll shoot off a pic. when I can, but just lop off that whole bottom with the VU's and you sort of have my machine. Bill |
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 5, 2019 13:06:40 GMT -5
 Just finished cleaning up this corroded Remote I bought from Ebay. It came out quite well. PITA to do though. Springs poor spacing. It had to be all there of course. |
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 5, 2019 13:34:05 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2019 10:43:25 GMT -5
Some old with the new, smartly done. Bravo.
Many R-R had bronze/brass sleeve bearings, most were "oil-less", you just replaced them because oil attracts dirt. The casual user rarely did thus scoring the harden steel shaft.
We used bronze/brass sleeve bearings on $250k machines & they're still used. An engineer explained them to me as a "mechanical fuse". Keep them clean, replace as preventative maintenance & when they squeal, you got a problem.
AudioHTIT, Did you have Quad tapes, they were great back in the day. Our demo machine was 10" Akai, but it didn't have the colored buttons.
Owned Akai, Teac, Dokorder (10", 4ch) & Sony R-Rs all Japanese. Too long ago to remember model #s
My boss at the Agora Ballroom had 5 Dokorders & sold me one so I knew it well, do pm's & could fix problems quickly. We recorded every concert from the mixing board with them.
That was heaven for me, fun days. lol
New tape player users-
Do your maintenance, they are precision made machines
Denatured Alcohol is a tape player's friend, a must have for cleaning.
Never use Isopropyl alcohol, especially on a head- it has oil in it.
Don't use abrasive cleaning tapes
Can use Acetone occasionally, but be careful were & when.
There use to be a great product made for head cleaning, but have not seen it in years.
Rubber capstan roller cleaner is best for the tape drive, it doesn't dry out the rubber.
Get a head demagnetizer... make sure your tapes are far away when you use it.
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 6, 2019 16:41:52 GMT -5
Yeah we used those bearings at Xerox too. Keeping them clean was the key, and I was never shy to replace them sooner than later. We had allot of side load factors with our bearing use so wear was a problem. But like anything else. Diligence is rewarded with great performance and reliability.
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Post by 405x5 on Sept 7, 2019 9:17:43 GMT -5
I remember having an Akai 10” Reel to Reel back in 70s, it was unique in that it could do 4 track recording and playback or play stereo with auto reverse. It also did 3 3/4, 7 1/2 & 15 IPS, you could get a lot of playing time on a two sided 10” reel. One thing I really enjoyed was making an annual ‘mix tape’ which I gave to my brother for Christmas, he had a Pioneer with 10” reels and also loved music. Good times, good music! Oh, just did a search, I think this was it! Finally got around to shooting a picture of the unit. Now if only I could find time to clean it up and take it for a test run! Bill Attachments:
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Post by AudioHTIT on Sept 7, 2019 12:03:56 GMT -5
... AudioHTIT, Did you have Quad tapes, they were great back in the day. Our demo machine was 10" Akai, but it didn't have the colored buttons. Owned Akai, Teac, Dokorder (10", 4ch) & Sony R-Rs all Japanese. Too long ago to remember model #s My boss at the Agora Ballroom had 5 Dokorders & sold me one so I knew it well, do pm's & could fix problems quickly. We recorded every concert from the mixing board with them. That was heaven for me, fun days. lol ... I might have sold and demo’d some quad tapes, along with quad LPs (SQ, QS, CD-4), and still have a few of the LPs, but mostly stereo. I also recorded most of my new LPs and played the tapes instead of the albums, cassettes for the car and mix tapes too. Now that I think about it I had an outboard DBX noise reduction box hooked up to that deck. I play guitar and that Akai was my first take at multi-track recording, I also used it for tape echo effects, you could get some pretty good ones with 4 tracks and three speeds, and I’ve had a stereo guitar setup since about 1970, so the effects had some space to move in. |
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Post by AudioHTIT on Sept 7, 2019 12:07:43 GMT -5
I remember having an Akai 10” Reel to Reel back in 70s, it was unique in that it could do 4 track recording and playback or play stereo with auto reverse. It also did 3 3/4, 7 1/2 & 15 IPS, you could get a lot of playing time on a two sided 10” reel. One thing I really enjoyed was making an annual ‘mix tape’ which I gave to my brother for Christmas, he had a Pioneer with 10” reels and also loved music. Good times, good music! Oh, just did a search, I think this was it! Finally got around to shooting a picture of the unit. Now if only I could find time to clean it up and take it for a test run! Bill I remember that guy, think I sold a few, sounds like you can get some good advice here on getting it back in shape. |
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Post by 405x5 on Sept 9, 2019 15:27:40 GMT -5
Finally got around to shooting a picture of the unit. Now if only I could find time to clean it up and take it for a test run! Bill I remember that guy, think I sold a few, sounds like you can get some good advice here on getting it back in shape. I'm sure you are right about that! I'm pretty handy with reel to reel (or at least I was....) My head demagnetizer has gone missing....so maybe Ebay will be the place to find one (Radio Shack was a good place to get one back in the day.) Most of my reel collection was made on a Tandberg. I don't have the machine but I do still have the TM4 mikes.....They look fine....for being over 50 years old! Bill |
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 12, 2019 13:47:29 GMT -5
Ever expanding my Analog reach. The newly acquired Nakamichi CR-3a 3 head deck of the cassette world now runs proxy as I figure out my next steps on the JVC. The JVC definitely has dropped the left channel in the record side of things. Don't know exactly what it is, but will figure it out. In the meantime the Nakamichi brand is home. I had a ZX-7 and the LX-5 before. Nice to hear a Nakamichi again.
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 13, 2019 16:54:09 GMT -5
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 20, 2019 4:52:23 GMT -5
The Teac CX-210 cassette deck I got for about $60.00 is running great.
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 20, 2019 17:49:28 GMT -5
Working on this Dual Well Technics. Needs capstan belts bad, but they are at least not salt water taffy like the Teac's were. Service Manual and Capstan Drive belts coming!
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 22, 2019 4:37:37 GMT -5
As seen in Recently Purchased this Technics M270X Cassette deck.  Hopefully with the Dual Deck and this one we make a set. Yeah that is it. The Nakamichi is still the flagship though. |
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 23, 2019 14:09:42 GMT -5
 Okay sometimes even techs fib just a bit. This dual deck Technics I bought the tech said the belts were fine. Well, he must be deaf as the wow and flutter was so bad. I changed them, and the old vs. new were about 25% stretched! Luckily being the suspicious type I ordered new belts anyway. I have downloaded the service manual and performed the service myself. It was not easy. Also times 2 of course. Great result though. |
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