How do you get FedEx to deliver when your wife is not home?

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Well.... I got the eye roll again when another package showed up at the campground.

(Hanging out on this forum may not be a good idea financially.....)

This one is a Tascam 244. It looks great on the outside, only one little scar. It had a stuck tape in it (uhhh...ohh...).
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Sure enough, belts and pinch roller oooozing around in the bottom. It was $50 though and everything seems to work other than that.

Time for a call to Tascam to order parts, then find a way to distract my lady when they show up!
 
Well...you need to obtain tracking info from FedEx...then monitor it closely, and when you know for sure what day it will be delivered...you send the wife out to the mall, and ask her to buy you something that is hard to find, that way she'll be gone most of the day.
FedEx usually delivers around the same time in a given area, based on the driver's route...so if you know they always come in the morning for instance...send her out then...etc. :)
 
Sent it to the neighbour who, in my imagination, is now Wilson from Home Improvement.
Yeah...Get it sent to Wilson. ;) *Grunts*
 
I address all deliveries that are not post to my day job workplace. Post is fine as I have a post office box and they hold the parcel there.

Alan
 
No need to call Tascam for 244 belts and pinch roller, they're all on ebay if you look. Marrs belts are the best IMO. But, if those have turned to jelly you're going to need to change to idler tires too. The belts are pretty straightforward, but the pinch roller and idlers aren't the easiest jobs. Check out the website that an old member started called Dr Zee 244 repair or whatever. He gets down with some repair steps that help.
 
Sometimes parts are cheaper getting them direct from Teac than they are off of eBay. Always a good idea to call them first and see what the price and availability are and then compare to other markets.
 
bachelorb said:
Well.... I got the eye roll again when another package showed up at the campground.
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Tell her to get a job! Hell, someone has to support your addiction! She'll be happily productive, and you can wait for the FedEx man all day long. Guilt free!
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Congrats on your purchase. Now get her fixed up.
 
bachelorb said:
Thanks for the advice... Has anyone ever dealt with these guys?

Dynamic Technology Group

They seem to have everything I need.
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Maybe somebody has had a different experience...but that company is a venture of a member here at homerecording.com...he hasn't posted in over 2.5 years. I inquired once for some parts and never got a reply. And what I'm still really chapped about is the individual and I shared a lot of scans of Tascam manuals back and forth...I've put a lot of work into doing high quality conprehensive scans of manuals for my own private library, which I use to help people. He offered scans he had for scans I had...harmless. I was clear with him I didn't want what I was providing to be used for his profit. Well, nearly a dozen of the manuals he has listed for sale he either got from me or I did work on to clean up for him and remove watermarks, etc. Asshole. I contacted him to confront him about it and he never responded. So that's my feeling. Shame on me for trusting somebody wasn't taking advantage of my benevolence...and shame on him for ignoring that Teac still has rights to many of those documents as far as I know.
 
I've dealt with him a couple times for belts and idler tires. The reason I say to look on eBay is because this dude sells them for a lot cheaper than Tascam (example, Tascam charged me something like $20-$30 for the idler assembly when all I really needed were the actual tires which you can get off ebay for $5) and Tascam doesn't supply belts anymore. Anyways, I created an order once with that site and was told that some the parts were no longer in stock. Seeing as they didn't have all the parts I needed, I cancelled the order. About a month later, I found the parts that they didn't have so I went to send him an email to resume the process and found I was blocked from sending emails. I then tried to go through ebay and found that I was persona non grata with doing business with them anymore. I was surprised that such a small thing would set them off. I eventually got it straightened out and was able to order the parts but only after sending repeated messages asking why I was blocked.

Look up their feedback. A lot of drama going on there. That's why I order belts from Marrs and buy my idler tires from Lowes now.
 
Thanks guys..... I think I might steer clear for now then..... I am all over Dr Zee's sight about using plumbing supplies.....

My big problem though is finding an idler wheel.... I can't find anyone but them who offer it (Tascam has discontinued it.....)
 
bachelorb said:
Well.... I got the eye roll again when another package showed up at the campground.
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All my packages are work related. Then when a new guitar suddenly appears on the rack..."No, honey, I've had that one for a while. Remember we talked about it a year or so ago?"
 
That's a tough job, but if yr careful and work slow you can do it. I have taken the face off of the 244 (which isn't the easiest, but again, doable) and removed that tiny black plastic c-ring that's on top of the idler tire assembly (very, very carefully as it's small and if lost will be next to impossible to find). The idler assembly has a spring between the top and bottom tires so hold it after getting the c-clip off. You can take them off, remove and replace the tires, and then put it back together. That's all shown on that dr zee site.

Personally, I'd rather just go in the other way and replace the whole assembly but yr saying that Tascam isn't selling those anymore. I figure once they sell out of those parts for all of their legacy analog equipment, they don't restock. That sucks.

I found o-rings that work perfectly at Lowes by just going in there with the old idler tires and matching them up. I've replaced them in 3 machines now and they all work great. Try it if you can get em out. It's nerve racking the first time, but you got this.
 
Chili said:
All my packages are work related. Then when a new guitar suddenly appears on the rack..."No, honey, I've had that one for a while. Remember we talked about it a year or so ago?"
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I do use this, and being older, I'll add a "maybe you should see a doctor about this memory thing" comment
 
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That's a tough job, but if yr careful and work slow you can do it. I have taken the face off of the 244 (which isn't the easiest, but again, doable) and removed that tiny black plastic c-ring that's on top of the idler tire assembly (very, very carefully as it's small and if lost will be next to impossible to find). The idler assembly has a spring between the top and bottom tires so hold it after getting the c-clip off. You can take them off, remove and replace the tires, and then put it back together. That's all shown on that dr zee site.

Personally, I'd rather just go in the other way and replace the whole assembly but yr saying that Tascam isn't selling those anymore. I figure once they sell out of those parts for all of their legacy analog equipment, they don't restock. That sucks.

I found o-rings that work perfectly at Lowes by just going in there with the old idler tires and matching them up. I've replaced them in 3 machines now and they all work great. Try it if you can get em out. It's nerve racking the first time, but you got this.
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Thanks LA..... We're heading to Aztec NM soon and we'll settle in for a month. Then I can start taking things apart and leaving em....
 
Back to the original question. If you go to the fedex site you can sign for it online, have them drop it off when you are not there. Or arrange for a different date. Keep her happy or she will take your stuff in the divorce.
 
Well I think Teac doesn't really care. For me it was the principle of duping somebody out of their hard work, telling me he just wanted them for his collection and then months later *boom* there they are.
 
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