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I could also use the manual velocity control to listen to a song without the pinch roller or even in reverse!

I found out what the blue "LD" button is for. It did indeed say in the manual, but not in the section that I expected. In the "Options" section of the manual, there is a more detailed explanation of the remote. The "LD" stands for lifter defeat. In any mode where the lifters would be activated...

That's the only thing I thought it could be. But the button is only on the remote and the manual says nothing about it at all.

A random thing that I have yet to ask. There is a blue button on the remote that is not there on the transport itself. I have no idea what it does. In fact it seems to do nothing at all! Does anyone know what the button is for? What does LD stand for???

Hopefully it will hold and the others will not fail in the same way! I think that the front panel may have been hit at some point. But plastic does become brittle over time, so who knows what will happen. I'll keep my fingers crossed though!

I fixed the switch! You can see in the picture below that the small plastic flange on the shaft of the switch has broken off rendering the spring useless to push the switch outward when the ready switch is depressed. I was originally thinking of epoxying a metal washer to the switch shaft...

Well I haven't done much on the 110 over the past few days. But I did clean her off a bit, just a wipe down of all the panels and such. The usual 30+ years of smoker dirt left on the rag once I was finished. I also did another record test just to be sure that I hadn't messed anything up. This...

The machine is all back together now and working. It seems my diagnosing skills are not as bad as I thought. I couldn't find a problem because apparently there was no problem... I just put it back together after finally getting some XLR connectors and it works just fine. Still gotta replace...

All diodes, caps, resistors, etc, tested fine. The problem has got to be on the mother board. I don't know what else to check.

Indeed. I'll hopefully get some XLR cables today to make testing easier. It just seems strange to me. The problem is on the mother board, yet there's very little to go wrong on it. Some diodes, caps, resistors, inductors and one transistor (the cue relay driver).

Well I've traced the problem to the mother board. But I have no idea what it would be. The audio seems to be working fine now, but still nothing from the meter. I have to get some XLR connectors before I can really figure this out. I can't keep poking around with clip leads anymore. It's...

Yesterday I replaced the IC sockets on the Bias boards as well as six electrolytic caps and one burned resistor. I also did a slight modification to the audio mother boards to allow me to use white LEDs for the meter lights since the 7387 bulbs are stupidly expensive from what I could find...

I happen to be a ham radio operator (not a very active one for the last four years or so) but if I ever need to call for help, I'm just gonna cue up that tape! :p

I didn't record that actually! That was before I tried recording! That is just what happened to be on the tape I bought online!! Right speed and right track layout. There was the Police and some old opera that was obviously recorded from a 78rpm record!

I guess I forgot to mention, it records too! I tested it yesterday! Sounds pretty good too considering I didn't adjust bias or anything.