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They were never there, not in the physical copy of the manual I have or the PDF of the 85-16B manual. I don't believe that there is any way of adjusting capstan tilt on this as it's designed. How is it adjusted on the ATR-60? By torquing the screws differently? There isn't anything between the...

I have had one of these, a 117, in my rig for a while now... it gets used a lot as an expander on drum tracks!! If you have a dampened snare track with blaringly loud hi-hat leakage (as played by all drummers who are not also recording engineers) it does a great job cleaning that up at a ratio...

It isn't actually required to have a preview-head tape machine or delayed input to a cutting system, it just allows the lathe to pack the grooves tighter (i.e. adjacent revolutions of groove are very close together when the program is quiet, spread far apart when it is loud, in order to either...

Well, I've contacted Teac and the guy that had the parts transport who I bought the capstan motor from, to see if I can get a new pinch roller arm. That seems to be the most obvious thing to try right now. The head block has three screws and so does the capstan motor, and they look difficult to...

It's different on different brands of decks! I have seen 160, 200 and even 250. I have a Teac Dolby alignment tape that's a ~400Hz tone at 200nWb. I just aligned a Yamaha K-1020 where the service manual said 160. Just scaled the voltage measurements by a factor of 1.25 playing back my Teac...

X-rays do not damage/erase recorded tape, but conveyor belt motors might. The temperature in the cargo hold is probably no big deal. I would carry them on the plane after they have been recorded just to be safe. That said, I have Fedexed my own master tapes a number of times without incident

Here's the pinch roller mechanism... there doesn't appear to be anything to adjust except for the distance the solenoid pulls.

Oh yeah, I got pictures of those too: That's the one part of the machine that seems to be working fine. The tape passes through silently and doesn't curl at the edges or anything. Left one looks a bit dirty in the picture, sorry, just noticed that. After I took that pinch roller picture I...

The manual doesn't have any instructions w.r.t. tape path alignment at all!! Argh. I decided to look at that pinch roller again: When the solenoid is pushed in by hand the bottom edge makes contact well before the top edge. It appears (no tools to really check this for sure) that its shaft...

Yes, I was trying to illustrate that - it's obvious when tape is rolling that the tension is a lot higher at the TOP of the supply tension roller than at the bottom. (the opposite of the condition at the heads?) I'm not sure what happens after it crosses the second roller. I was not previously...

in re: Sweetbeats 3) Flutter is a lot lower than it was, but it's still audible on certain test tones. I'm hoping that what remains is related to this tension problem. I know that some people say the capstan servos in these machines aren't very good. 5-6) Will do when I get home. 7) I talked...

Oh, yeah - I had painted the two stationary guides on the head block a while ago with a permanent marker, to see how it would wear away (visible in the first picture) - I don't think either of them resemble the trapezoid at all?

Oh, oops. Here are the two images 1) The tape was stored in a house along with the machine. The whole lot came from a Vegas showtune composer's estate (no kidding!) So far none of the 8 reels I picked up have shown any sign of SSS at all. They were all still in the plastic inside the box when...

Hi all, long time listener / first time poster here. I acquired a Teac 85-16 after making a lot of recordings with my pair of Fostex R8s over the last 4 years. Heads were relapped by JRF and I replaced the bearings in the motor myself. After using the machine on a bunch of sessions since last...