CUTEC MR402 - stopped working

[terribletraffic]

I was recording on my Cutec 402 - 4 track multi recorder, and it was sounding nice. Quite slow rewind and fast forward, all working well. Then I was rewinding having recorded 2 tracks already, and all of a sudden the tape just got chewed up really badly, it took me an hour to get it all out as the machine wouldn't open up, a real nightmare it was.
Now its all clean, I put a tape back in and there is a huge, consistent wurring noise, the machine rewind's (even slower now), fast forwards, but does not play.
How do you reckon I can fix it?

 

[jpmorris]

At a guess, say the capstan is no longer turning. If it's belt-driven, the belt has probably gone. Some of them use an idler wheel, and that may have gone sticky or something.