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I just found it and I am going to check it out!

Oh that is a better idea to listen to a single tone as a test tape. But yes I was listening by ear and the speed difference was VERY noticable. Lol. Roughly 1.5x the correct speed at the normal speed setting with the speed switch on low. Plus I can compare it to the same song playing from my...

Yes. I used a regular pre recorded cassette tape just so I could more accurately test the speed. I had to have it set to low speed on the switch, and pitch control all the way down. And the reason I ask about the pinch roller is because when I push on the pinch roller to push it more into the...

Okay so I found that where it puts the heads in stop mode, when it has the heads in the tape still just a little is about 3 and 1/16th turns counterclockwise from the most clockwise point that the wheel will go. Sometimes in stop mode, it moved the heads back just enough to get the tape out. FF...

And oh yes, it does. But it also has a speed switch to go to normal speed. A pitch control. I can only get the speed right however with the pitch knob all the way down.

Okay, I turned the gig white wheel with large holes in it, attached by a small band to a plastic motor pully, and it interlocks gears with a black plastic gear with an odd shape on it. This moves the assembly back and forth. Starting from furthest counterclockwise position, the heads are all the...

Oh okay. You know, that makes a lot of sense, since the seller of this machine replaced all the belts but did not seem to know enough, or didnt want to put in the effort, to replace the tires and pinch roller, and clean it up. I will try this for sure. I actually ran into a couple other...

After some testing, it is having a problem with it moving the tape heads too far forward when it is in stop, rewind or fast forward. But not always. But when it does it cant move the tape to rewind or when stopped, it is sometimes difficult to put a tape in or take it out.

Okay yeah it was something silly, at least I hope. It may have been a lose plug om the psu.

Okay now I am actually getting it to turn on but its flickering on and off and making an electrical sparky noise. So i think the cord is lose somewhere.

Hello all! My name is Mathis, and I am new to this forum and home recording, but I got a Tascam 246 a few days ago (knowing it needed new tires and a new pinch roller. It was working fine, and I had it apart and it was working fine too. I kept it in the bottom half of its shell so it would not...