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How exactly am I condescending. People in general like my direct approach and they have told me this. Why does stuff have to be sugar coated. I do not intentional make people feel small and if they do it is their wrong perception. Why would I be helping people over the years in getting the deck...

It might be possible to still get connectors but after 30 years companies like to move on and make connectors more aimed a what is happening today. The current capability can be determined by power ratings of the power supply wattage wise and of course putting a power supply that has more...

Not to pour cold water on the project but first I would take the mixer and hook it to some test equipment and see if there are actual issue with the caps inside. Otherwise if there are then putting in today's fresh caps will get the mixer another 30 years service and maybe even more.

Well even if a connector is inside which I would think there is you would want different sources for the meters. So the connector inside is not something to work with and besides that the power supply would not want to deal with all that extra amperage going into those lamps. You would be able...

Any servo tension deck needs the opto referenced and then tension adjusted using a Tentelometer gauge as the book says. Lubrication of pivot rods will over time add to the problem but can be resolved if you recognize it. The 388 is far too large and it pushes technology too far which will with...

The sockets for the LED are two conductor Molex connectors which I am not sure you can still get them. I bough a bunch for the card edges of 38 and so on as when the hook breaks the cards will not plug in correctly. That is usually done by amateurs jamming the cards in any old way. Bulls in a...

The speed in the deck has no difference between play and record so you don't have to look for it as I have never seen such a thing. I have recapped about 135 motors in decks as well as repaired them and the worse one I get are the ones that amateurs work on. If you are not able to remove SMD...

People who make videos like this have just rudimentary knowledge of a deck. This deck if you examine the service manual has a transport similar to the 238 and the cam system will have that bad grease in it as well as the transport and the feedback switches which are fingers on the cam gear can...

The best 4 track was the 234 but it did not come with a mixer attached. I worked on a lot of 244 back in the 80 and 90 when I worked at the Chicago Factory service in Arlington Heights. They are repairable and I know what you are talking about with the rubber on them- the Pinch rollers went soft...

What is so hard to understand on as simple a deck as this? There is no sync capability so that will not work like a 4 channel deck with sync- sync means playing previous channels off the record head to keep timing in place. These A2300S deck are great machines and as long as the heads are good...

The Technician is going to have the same thing you deal with so there seems to me to be the only way.

Well if you can get to he transport then the turn of the flywheel or the assist cam can put the deck back into stop position. If the capstan belt is lose then it can not turn the flywheel to make the mechanical cam system work. There are sometimes cam belts by themselves that are driven by a...

There is probably no cable you can just buy anymore. The connector parts will need to be researched and a cable built with regard to current capabilities and the type and number of conductors of the cable needed. There were places that would make a cable for you like Gepco International but I am...

You would be better off letting a experienced Technician take the tape out as we know the decks better than just someone who just bought it.

In some cases where you can take the transport out you can free up a tape from the transport but there are some units with screws in the cassette well that need to come out first and the tape is in the way so that is not going to make it easy to get the tape out. It is not smart to put a good...

Well if the unit is hooked up with RCA cables then yes but if it is hard wires into the mixer I don't see how it can be used without some engineering involved.

The designation for a Transistor is Q while and IC is U. The 2SA are lower power than the 2SB parts and the 2SC are lower power than 2SD normally 2SA, B are PNP while the 2SC and 2SD are NPN A KSC1845 would have worked in this place. All datasheets gives a lot of subs.

The DX-8 or DX-4 are a different animal and they are full of problems from Tantalums and those cockeyed relays- I can remember using up 8 hours to fix some of them which then Tascam made an exchange program for a fixed cost. Those days are gone now. The double sided boards of the DX-8 are also...

Look at the schematic- the 2SC2878 are all muting transistors used for grounding out the audio and in a switch transistor mode. There is no need to worry about the hFE in these cases. What IC did you change? The IC's are easy to obtain and nothing special to get. It is strange that the IC went...

You can even buy adapters for cheap but they are not made for a lot of work unless they are switchcraft which are a lot. The 40 cent adapters that I have a lot of here will crack after a while a sign of fine Chinese plastic...