antispatula
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So my otari mx5050 8 track is the center point of my slowly growing setup in my room. I just turned 17, and don't ge much money, and tracks 4 6 7 and 8 didn't work. I knew I was proabibly going to have to spend hundreds for a tech to fix it. Then I thought perhaps its the swith contacts. I cleaned them. When I pushed on the switch hard, the channel worked, so I thought it had to be. Then I decided to take the swith off ch. 4 and play with it. It took HOURS. I had to desolder it (it had 10 diff contacts on the circuit board.....) with copper wick (a pain in the badonk-donk....did I spell that right?) And I messed with it, and soldered it back on, and put the channel card back in the terminal. It worked! WOAH. So then I tried it on ch 6. Nothing seemed to change. CRAP I thought. Then I noticed that the ch board wasn't in ALL the way into the terminal. I pushed it it ENTIRELY, and it WORKED. Then I noticed that 7 and 8 weren't completely in either. I pushed THEM in and now my machine is in GREAT WORKING ORDER! Man I feel stupid, yet SO relieved. THAT's why pushing on the switch made the channel work, it was pushing the entire channel card in more further into the terminal!!!!
Wow. Just thought I share. So if your channels aren't working, remember this story......
Wow. Just thought I share. So if your channels aren't working, remember this story......