The Great Cobb
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If you recall a few weeks ago there was a post about a Tascam 388 that had burnt out the fuse in the F3 position, and that the heat sink on the back was getting morbidly hot within a short amount of time being on. That was my room mate's and my 388. He has since moved out and now it is down to me to fix it up.
I am about to just take it down to the repair shop, but the guy wants 80 an hour and wont give me an estimate or take a look at it to see what kind of problem it might be. So i have no idea wither its going to be 3 hours of shop time or 20. Basically i am posting this to see if anyone has any idea of what might be wrong with it based on the description of the problem, so i have a remote idea of the repair costs. I am going to have to go into debt to pay for this thing to be fixed, which is terrible.
This is all i know if its problems:
WORKING:
The machine plays, records, all mixer channels work, all transport functions are fast and tight. The unit has a new belt. The tape is new and there is no gunk on the heads.
PROBLEMS:
Fuse in the F3 position was blown and replaced. After about 10 minutes of being on the heat sink gets very hot, hotter than it ever should, starting with the left hand side of the heat sink, eventually spreading to the whole sink.
Something i noticed today, my room mate replaced all the fuses a few weeks ago, but now, after having had been powered up for a total of maybe 30 minutes since, the fuse in the F3 position is starting to yellow. So whatever is happening that happened before is happening again. Ive left it off and unplugged since i made this discovery.
Does anyone have an idea of what might be causing this?
I am about to just take it down to the repair shop, but the guy wants 80 an hour and wont give me an estimate or take a look at it to see what kind of problem it might be. So i have no idea wither its going to be 3 hours of shop time or 20. Basically i am posting this to see if anyone has any idea of what might be wrong with it based on the description of the problem, so i have a remote idea of the repair costs. I am going to have to go into debt to pay for this thing to be fixed, which is terrible.
This is all i know if its problems:
WORKING:
The machine plays, records, all mixer channels work, all transport functions are fast and tight. The unit has a new belt. The tape is new and there is no gunk on the heads.
PROBLEMS:
Fuse in the F3 position was blown and replaced. After about 10 minutes of being on the heat sink gets very hot, hotter than it ever should, starting with the left hand side of the heat sink, eventually spreading to the whole sink.
Something i noticed today, my room mate replaced all the fuses a few weeks ago, but now, after having had been powered up for a total of maybe 30 minutes since, the fuse in the F3 position is starting to yellow. So whatever is happening that happened before is happening again. Ive left it off and unplugged since i made this discovery.
Does anyone have an idea of what might be causing this?