I’ve just bought this MSR16 and immediately had it serviced/aligned, I get it back from my tech and installed at the studio, fire it up and notice right away that the tape lifters aren’t working at all. My tech is now on vacation and I thought I’d post here in the meantime while I’m waiting to hear back from him after the break.
When I hit FF or RW, the lifters don’t move at all. It doesn’t look like they’re trying to lift the tape but can’t, they look like there’s nothing driving them to move whatsoever. I can reach in with a qtip and manually make them move, and when I pull the qtip they spring back into their resting position. So I can move them freely, and they are attached to something that pulls them back into place, but they literally do not even budge a millimeter when I hit FF or RW.
Anyone have any thoughts on what I might try to check on my own while I’m waiting to get the machine back into the tech’s shop? This is incredibly frustrating as the machine was just serviced and given a clean bill of health, and is non-trivial to move in and out of my studio....has to be disconnected, be lifted back out of the rack, carried down a narrow flight of steps, loaded into car, etc etc all of which I just finished doing twice to have the machine serviced after I bought it.
Any help would be much appreciated!
When I hit FF or RW, the lifters don’t move at all. It doesn’t look like they’re trying to lift the tape but can’t, they look like there’s nothing driving them to move whatsoever. I can reach in with a qtip and manually make them move, and when I pull the qtip they spring back into their resting position. So I can move them freely, and they are attached to something that pulls them back into place, but they literally do not even budge a millimeter when I hit FF or RW.
Anyone have any thoughts on what I might try to check on my own while I’m waiting to get the machine back into the tech’s shop? This is incredibly frustrating as the machine was just serviced and given a clean bill of health, and is non-trivial to move in and out of my studio....has to be disconnected, be lifted back out of the rack, carried down a narrow flight of steps, loaded into car, etc etc all of which I just finished doing twice to have the machine serviced after I bought it.
Any help would be much appreciated!