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Somebody please help me! I have this machine functionally working but every time I think I am done and put it back together, something breaks! I have been working on it over a year! (With a long multu month break in the middle however) But I started back up again a couple weeks ago and its the...

Okay so I tried adjusting R514 which is the low speed control as it said in the manual, and I turned it all the way down as much as it would go. Still not slow enough, but closer. The tape is normal speed with the pitch control around 10 o'clock now. I am going to have to assume that both speeds...

I mean I am generally good at fixing things and I have an associate's in electronics, but I finished it a few years ago and havent used the information. If it had some kind of major technical issue then I would do that. But no one around me repairs cassette decks that I know of. There is one guy...

Have you or anyone you know had good results with this ebay listing? https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F132211476150t just seems kind of questionable to take the old tire off and put a new one on the original hub. ---------- Update ---------- The...

Ah it is from the pinch roller. The tape slips under it when it is at the certain uneven point. I think it angles itself sometimes from the bottom and top of it being sanded. Im going to try flattening it to see if that helps any.

Yeah it is still doing it. It sounds like when a tape player gets hit while it is playing. Sometimes it is very subtle and sometimes not as much. Maybe that still is the pinch roller. Any idea as to where I can find the exact one?

Okay. So it just has enough wiggle room to noticably move when i move it. That is roughly .1 to .2 mm. Thats good. Volume is fixed! So now just the speed. Now that it plays at full volume, I was able to test out the speed a little better just comparing to the same song on my phone. I do not have...

Oop! I just got blasted in the ears! It was the dbx switches! They had no contact. Ill be cleaning them up so another problem solved! Now it is just the speed issue!

Also do you know any possible reasons why my volume is quiet on all tracks? I get the feeling there is a control I am overlooking

Is the thrust the amount that the flywheel can move up and down? As referred to in the manual as being proper when within .1 to .2mm. That is where I have it now set.

Thank you! And sure thing! I did indeed sand it outside of the machine haha! And not to worry. I put it back where it was and its fine. Okay I will look for the thrust adjustment in the manual. Will this change the speed of the capstan or just the torque or something? And I am sorry! I will...

I love that reaction though! Hahaha! "You... sanded the pinch roller?"

I just had a breakthrough! The seller did indeed not put it back together properly after changing the belts! When he lifted the metal bar holding everything down, he forgot to put the fork shaped piece of plastic that is attached to a variable resistor back onto a ridge on the black plastic...

Okay I tried every possible position of R552 and the best I got was maybe 2 mm away from play position and the pinch roller back about 1 mm from the capstan.

Really!? I would not have thought that. I would have thought computers are exact. And it is music stored on my phone, not streamed, but you said its the same so it doesnt really matter then lol. And hmm... I have some things to consider then. I am definitely open to getting a cheap test tape...

Also, i could play a pre recorded tape in a different deck before i make the test tape, or the tascam just having that alone be the test, and compare to the same song playing from my phone, and see if they go out of synch.

Yeah i figured it might. But would it still work even though it is not chrome tape? I want the $65 tape that has all the test but it is a lot of money for a test tape, at least for me lol. He also has a very cheap tape that is the same as the $30 tape but it only has the frequency test, and...

He also has a chrome type tape with more tests but it is $65!

I just found a pretty high quality cassette made by someone on ebay for $35 including shipping that has both a speed test and azimuth test, recorded with high quality machines. TEST TAPE SPEED/AZIMUTH CALIBRATION BOOMBOX CASSETTE DECK 3 KHz 0 dB 8 KHz -20dB | eBay Would this or something like...

I mean couldn't i just use a tone generator on my phone to generate a specific frequency, record it, and play it back? Or record it on a different tape deck maybe so it wont be recorded by the machine at the same speed its being played back? Im not going to buy a $75 test tape. I will do some...