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sweetbeats replied to the thread Ampex 440C 1" 8trk Capstan motor.You’d have to correspond with John French regarding what’s actually available. I’m not sure how up-to-date the website is. He and I... -
sweetbeats replied to the thread Ampex 440C 1" 8trk Capstan motor.I really don’t think so…Flux was the last one I know of making new heads but I believe Greg retired. So anything out there would have to...
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Yes John was nice, he did a set of 1/2" 4trk for me as well way back. So I replaced all the caps throughout the unit cards, power...
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sweetbeats replied to the thread Ampex 440C 1" 8trk Capstan motor.That’s great. Not that there aren’t others capable of doing the work, but John and his wife are great people and JRF is my preferred...
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JRF did the relap.
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That's cool, I did not know that. I did have them re-lapped. I think they said on the chart it has 38% life left on the heads.
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sweetbeats replied to the thread Ampex 440C 1" 8trk Capstan motor.Who did the work?
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sweetbeats replied to the thread Ampex 440C 1" 8trk Capstan motor.In case you didn’t know the C has later gen heads on it with about triple the number of laminations (thinner laminations) and better HF...
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Copy that, and thank you.
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I have an entire working (but not fully tested) M-520 in storage for spare parts (just no power supply) and an M-50 as well (does not...
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sweetbeats replied to the thread Tascam M520 Story....PM sent.
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sweetbeats replied to the thread Ampex 440C 1" 8trk Capstan motor.I don’t think you understood what I was saying. There’s no way there’s a DC motor setup here. I only have a few small AG-440 bits and...
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sweetbeats replied to the thread Ampex 440C 1" 8trk Capstan motor.And I wasn’t saying the AG-440-8 can’t handle 1” tape, I’m saying ghe AG-440 transport wasn’t designed to do it, and they had to add...
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sweetbeats replied to the thread Ampex 440C 1" 8trk Capstan motor.I haven’t owned an AG-440 for about a decade and a half…I might have some random parts somewhere around here but certainly not a hen’s...
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sweetbeats replied to the thread Ampex 440C 1" 8trk Capstan motor.I just saw your latest post. Can you please read/study my last post above and repost what if any of your questions remain?
