Okay, guys, so anybody know a good tech around Orange County if Belial needs it?
Belial, I just went through a whole wacky ordeal with my 58...a really wierd clicking problem and it turned out to be a magnetization issue. Demagging, really good careful demagging solved it, with a good demag unit (Han-D-Mag).
Can you put up a pic of your demag unit? This is important...If it is the one I'm thinking of it will get the job done for you, but if not it is literally a waste of time to use it. Are you comfortable with your demag technique? In order to solve the problem on my 58 I had to follow the advice of Analog Kid and literally spend 5-10 seconds on
each head...not
headstack, but each of the 8 little strips on each of the three heads slowly going back and forth over the strip and then moving to the next strip and once all 8 were done on that stack
then it was on to the next stack...you do the math but I was at the heads with the probe for 2 ~ 3 minutes
just doing the heads.
I'm sure there are other ways to check and see if the right amount of current is going to each of the 8 heads in the erase headstack, but that is beyond me at this point.
Hey thanks for meeting us halfway and not typing in all caps...it doesn't feel like you are shouting anymore...now you just seem amped because you never take a breath.
Its all good.