Herm
Well-known member
Ok some of you know that a couple of months ago I bought a tascam 38 and 2 dx-4d,s for 450.00.
But when they got here the recorder was all broke up, the pinch roller could have been used to grease your car and the drive belt was a flimsy mess and just fell off when I turned the unit on.
So i ordered a new pinch roller and a new drive belt for it but the roller came real quick from tascam but I had to wait on the belt cause of Back order.
When I took the machine apart it had hit the floor so hard from ups that it bent the steel under all for feet and pushed the frame up till it broke the front face plastic on the side and bent the meter frame. 4 of the channel boards where knocked out of the chasse and had to be push back in.
So two nights ago the belt came in and I went to work on putting all back together and straightning all the metel parts best i could.
I had to readjust the reel holders cause they had been pushed in.
Then the big test would it pass audio? Would it Record?
And to my suprise it all worked! I couldnt beleive it.
It has a big chunk of plastic out of the side I guess I could try and epoxy back together but that seems to never work so I think I will just watch out for a another 38 that is screwed up and replace it.
It was a real downer getting this thing all broke but it did give me a chance to learn alot about the recorder and found out the 38 is a pretty easy unit to work on. I havnt got into the adjusting of bias or anything like that yet but aleast I have one that I can practice on now.
Here is a pic of the unit now that it pretty much back together for the most part.
But when they got here the recorder was all broke up, the pinch roller could have been used to grease your car and the drive belt was a flimsy mess and just fell off when I turned the unit on.
So i ordered a new pinch roller and a new drive belt for it but the roller came real quick from tascam but I had to wait on the belt cause of Back order.
When I took the machine apart it had hit the floor so hard from ups that it bent the steel under all for feet and pushed the frame up till it broke the front face plastic on the side and bent the meter frame. 4 of the channel boards where knocked out of the chasse and had to be push back in.
So two nights ago the belt came in and I went to work on putting all back together and straightning all the metel parts best i could.
I had to readjust the reel holders cause they had been pushed in.
Then the big test would it pass audio? Would it Record?
And to my suprise it all worked! I couldnt beleive it.
It has a big chunk of plastic out of the side I guess I could try and epoxy back together but that seems to never work so I think I will just watch out for a another 38 that is screwed up and replace it.
It was a real downer getting this thing all broke but it did give me a chance to learn alot about the recorder and found out the 38 is a pretty easy unit to work on. I havnt got into the adjusting of bias or anything like that yet but aleast I have one that I can practice on now.
Here is a pic of the unit now that it pretty much back together for the most part.