Thanks.
I did give one piece of bozo information though. The 8516 dbx unit is a single unit and is the middle drawer of the three drawers you might see in pictures. I was typing and thinking of the layout of the older 90-16s. If I would've bothered to swivel my chair around to actually look at the 8516b behind me, I would've gotten the info right the first time.
The top slide out drawer has a removable panel and contains all the bias etc setting pots. Tascam even included a little plastic tweaking tool with that fit into a grooved holder inside that drawer. Although mine disappeared within the first couple of years. The lower drawer of the three is the power supply for the machine.
Other 8516 tidbits.
The top transport is mounted on a swivel. There are two, black pull out pins on each side of the top. If you pull those spring loaded pins outward, you can grab the transport and tilt it totally perpendicular ...straight up and down....to easily get to the reel/capstan motors etc.
The 8516 transport function panel (record arming etc) lifts completely out of the machine and can be placed anywhere up to 30-40 feet from the machine (if you have the optional umbilical cable).
The AQ85-90 autolocator, which was an option for the 8516, would plug right in to the function selector at whatever remote distance. The Aq85-90 has 10 cue points and rtz + tape counter.
With that setup, you had remote track arming and transport controls for the 8516...as well as a duplicate set of transport controls still at the machine. Pretty cool setup for it's day. I stopped using the Aq85-90 after the appearance of
the Mts1000 (midiizer) in the 80's because the midiizer would do so much more than the basic autolocator. But I still have all this stuff.
Also, the transport can be taken completely off the machine as can also the three metal drawers below. They just slide clear out and then off the machine like a kitchen drawer.
Instead of one 209 lb machine, what you then have are five pieces.. pedestal, 3 drawers, and transport. Plus the 5 or 6 multipin cables that connect everything in the back.
Back in the old days, I could take an 8516 apart in about six or seven minutes, throw it into my little Nissan Sentra (well not throw it) and drive to numerous places to do remote sessions.