johnbilben
New member
so a kind gentleman on this here forum brought to my attention that the capstan shaft on my Tascam 38 is not spinning when i hold both tension arms up and hit play. Everything works fine on the machine. The reels spin, everything powers up, the rubber pinch roller clamps the way its supposed to, so this was the only problem. He said its pretty normal on a vintage machine for the capstan belt to go bad and i went ahead and called Tascam and ordered my new capstan belt. However, i have NO CLUE what I'm doing but I'm very confident that with some good help i can tackle this and get it installed myself. Can anyone walk me through this? I'd be forever in debt to you.
-John
-John