Holy Cow deslog, those pictures make me happy. So cool to see the photos. I just ordered a 14d and it is awaiting for me in Nebraska. I will be able to check it out in 2 weeks. On Eject arm, yes, I imagine re-bending would work. It is aluminum which is a real "sticky" metal. If you want to take the easy way out, just lube the bottom and "help" the loading system to move smoothly with your hand when you use it. If you do use heat, i would personally think a heat gun, not a flame, would work best, just slowly working up to temp. Even a hair dryer. As for my recent work, I managed to burn up a display, which is NOT LED or incandescent. I think its fluorescent. Look super close at big display. It has wires like a toaster and honeycomb shape stuff behind it. I also burnt up the driver for the loading mechanism. Thankfully it is only a 6 dollar IC online. It is an actual motor driver on "system control board" with a heatsink. My fuse for the high voltage kept burning up (30v ithink) so i assumed the problem was on a 30 volt line. However since the motor driver IC works on a different voltage, I assumed that was not the issue. In hindsight, this IC was DRIVING the 30v circuit, causing it to go haywire and burn fuse (from what I can tell.
Currently, I have been building stand alone housings for tape mechanisms. Reason being, it seems an abusive situation to remove these things and back and forth 10x. This way I can observe and use in plain view. I have extension cords made and have operated this remotely, but am still in process of working all this out. I recently, FINALLY got the wave form I was looking for on my oscilloscope. Has to do with the erase coil. After I got the waveform, everything went South, as noted above. I will try to post specifics on another thread. Essentially, by swapping boards between machines, I found an issue with the 100khz oscillator, and the beauty of having multiple machines, is I was able to see that another machine suffered the same issue.
Rob
Currently, I have been building stand alone housings for tape mechanisms. Reason being, it seems an abusive situation to remove these things and back and forth 10x. This way I can observe and use in plain view. I have extension cords made and have operated this remotely, but am still in process of working all this out. I recently, FINALLY got the wave form I was looking for on my oscilloscope. Has to do with the erase coil. After I got the waveform, everything went South, as noted above. I will try to post specifics on another thread. Essentially, by swapping boards between machines, I found an issue with the 100khz oscillator, and the beauty of having multiple machines, is I was able to see that another machine suffered the same issue.
Rob