I guess you could try joining the two buttons as long as you pressed in the middle of the bar and not the side in case you trigger one and not the other.
Great job putting it all together!
It's likely the idler tire, assuming the motor is working. Can you hear the motor spinning when you engage FFWD or REW?
Well, I downloaded the Service manual, and i cannot find the "Idler" Does anyone know what they are calling it or on what page of the Service Manual it is pictured? Thanks, EricWell it sure sounds like a bad idler tire. Others will have to chime in about how you get to that since I've never pulled anything apart on mine.
could anyone tell me from experience if the proprietary Mk20j tapes suffer from "sticky shed" as often as you would find with reel tapes of same age? i have been researching the mk20j awhile and so far i haven't found any direct reference to someone experiencing "sticky shed" with them.
ahh thats unfortunate, i was hoping that these proprietary cassette shells were giving them a little extra shielding against going sticky, may be wishful thinking, but then again yours is the first case of sticky shed i have found on the mk20j so maybe it is more rare with them.I believe it does. I have 3 new old stock tapes. I recently opened one and tried it and it was leaving a lot of residue all over the transport. Rew/ffw was very sluggish with this tape too.
I have a few used tapes that don't have this problem and they work fine. I'm thinking the other 2 new tapes are gonna have the same problem because I bought them all together.
ahh thats unfortunate, i was hoping that these proprietary cassette shells were giving them a little extra shielding against going sticky, may be wishful thinking, but then again yours is the first case of sticky shed i have found on the mk20j so maybe it is more rare with them.
i have been really on the fence about purchasing an mg1212, i have been offered an mg1212 for sale from a local studio that has had it in storage and it has the idler tire replacement need symptoms, i even bought the service manual online to determine if i could replace the idler tire fairly easily however it seems pretty extensive just to get down to the idler tire to replace it, and the service manual is a little unclear, with my hobbyist level experience with electronics repair i thought it might be a bit too daunting. in your experience how easy was it to replace the idler tire? anything outside of the service manual i would need to know maybe?
ahh thats unfortunate, i was hoping that these proprietary cassette shells were giving them a little extra shielding against going sticky, may be wishful thinking, but then again yours is the first case of sticky shed i have found on the mk20j so maybe it is more rare with them.
i have been really on the fence about purchasing an mg1212, i have been offered an mg1212 for sale from a local studio that has had it in storage and it has the idler tire replacement need symptoms, i even bought the service manual online to determine if i could replace the idler tire fairly easily however it seems pretty extensive just to get down to the idler tire to replace it, and the service manual is a little unclear, with my hobbyist level experience with electronics repair i thought it might be a bit too daunting. in your experience how easy was it to replace the idler tire? anything outside of the service manual i would need to know maybe?
I've heard of them being being spooled up with good tape. Don't know much about how, or what tape is used, just heard of it being done.