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as stephens recorders were somewhat rare, here's a brochure from back in the day. http://www.dvq.com/hifi/images/stephens.pdf founder john stephens bio- http://mixonline.com/news/john-stephens-obituary-081807/ edit-i voted no. just don't see new multitracks coming back. imo, too much $...

your post just came up on the reeltoreel list. betwixt there and here, someone knowledgeble on your deck ought to be along soon. you sound like you've got a good handle on things.

got it. good point.

dirt on a head can keep a meter from showing any movement. only takes a very few minutes of 'sheddy' tape record/playback to gum everything up. "what's the "special/normal" tape select switch? as in ferric oxide vs. chrome?" iirc, 'special' is wide range tape, 'normal' is low noise tape. or...

congrats! on your new (2 u) sony tc 277-4 quad deck! you gots to clean the heads and guides using 91% isopropyl alcohol on q-tips immediately! doing so may clear up track 2, not to mention the other 3. watch out for older tapes like ampex 456 and others, that shed the oxide on them all over...

jim guercio donated quite a bit of gear to the school after the ranch fire. a shame that the studio burned but good for the school. re topic at hand; i studied music theory and electrical engineering at worcester polytech for one year, '70-71; then quit for a year, then got drafted. then...

ABSOLUTELY what he said! and VP also (post 17 from back in sept.)

scott f. is in springfield vt, just across the border from charlestown n.h. which is great if you're on the west side of n.h. he's right off I-91. he rehabbed my nakamichi mr-1 cassette deck and then one of my akai gx-630d-ss quad reel to reels (see slideshow in signature area below). right...

:eek::confused::rolleyes: full disclosure and honesty is the best policy here, imo. anything else will come back to bite you in the a$$ down the road. karma and all that...

you're way ahead of me on that stuff.:o

i really hope you're able to get this one going.

LOL! oh, well. re video, guess i'm a day late and a dollar short, as they say. congrats on fixes you got done.

this the one (if pic comes thru)? guess not. working on pic... aha! no pic but here's a video of the 7140- http://www.ehow.com/video_2385256_4track-reel-reel-tape-recorders.html

i'm not sure. that's why i asked the other member hoping he might know. it's common knowledge amongst akai 'experts' but i'm not one of them. learning, tho. EDIT-it's called 'pot' metal. here's some info on it, scroll down a bit-...

oh yeah! and it only takes a few minutes of playing a tape that sheds to really gum up the works and bring the whole thing to a stop. further attempts at operation without cleaning can cause the motor to burn out.

does the ops 1700 have the infamous metal cam that disintegrates with age? if so, something to consider.

prrrrrrrrretty nice!:cool:

is it one like this?-(not mine, stock photo off the 'net) very nice!

cool! and interesting. anything like my aphex 204 exciter?

don't have a pr99, i do have 4 akai and 1 teac r2r decks. and seeing no one else has answered, i'll take a shot. 1-if by 'play' you mean the capstan starts spinning on power up, on my akais that is normal. 2-again, that is normal on my akai decks. 3-not sure what you mean. 4-no idea. wish i...