This was hilarious...
I moved the Otari 8-track and lowered the pedestal it sits on. I had to pull the take up reel off of its hub to fit the machine into its new home. I put the reel back on. Then I plugged the machine back in. When I started it up, it wouldn't wind properly... it wouldn't stop once I started either fast wind mode. I could only stop it by turning the machine off.
I'm cursing, and I have that sinking feeling that I've got some major malfunction of the transport control card...
Eventually it dawns on me that the counter was also running backwards.... of course, when I put the reel back on, the tape got threaded the wrong way around the tach roller and the transport was totally confused. Thank goodness I don't do idiotic stuff like this every day!
Cheers,
Otto
I moved the Otari 8-track and lowered the pedestal it sits on. I had to pull the take up reel off of its hub to fit the machine into its new home. I put the reel back on. Then I plugged the machine back in. When I started it up, it wouldn't wind properly... it wouldn't stop once I started either fast wind mode. I could only stop it by turning the machine off.
I'm cursing, and I have that sinking feeling that I've got some major malfunction of the transport control card...
Eventually it dawns on me that the counter was also running backwards.... of course, when I put the reel back on, the tape got threaded the wrong way around the tach roller and the transport was totally confused. Thank goodness I don't do idiotic stuff like this every day!
Cheers,
Otto