munceyboyjoe
New member
Hello everyone. I have finally finished cleaning up my 388 which I scored off ebay. I don't think it was cleaned too regularly by the previous owner. When I first fired it up, it didn't want to fast-forward or rewind, but after trawling through these forums, I realised a thorough clean would be a good place to start. So, I cleaned it up, and loaded a nice new reel of 457 onto the right side, intended to use the tails out method. Pressed rewind, and it started flying through the tape, lovely! The clean worked. As the tape neared it's ended, it started wondering whether it would stop itself, I soon found out, it didn't. The tape flew off it's hub on the right. So I've secured it back on, and am now feeling a little sheepish. Is this normal? Should I have done something to ensure the tape didn't fly off? Anyway, I'm now gonna go and do some test recording......