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After a successfull replacement of my BC1200's drive belts, with much appreciated help from Martin and Søren some time ago I dare to open up my BC 2000 de Luxe to try to make it run according to the user manual.
The problem is the speeds.19 cm/sec : seems to do it well (I have no recordings on tape with this selection. 9 1/2 cm/sec: starts slowly but after a while I recognize the music as reproduced by the originating LP. 4 3/4 : refuses to moveFF and RW perform well.
Question 1, of course, could this poor functioning be caused by lack of proper lubrication?Question 2 see picture, does the drive mechanism differ much from the "normal" 2000? Arrow pointing to location of drive belt.
Meanwhile I will study Søren's thread, particularely after his post dated Fr. Aug 1, 2014, 6:39 AM, in which he seeks lovers of vintage audio. Well, I am such a lover, merely because I am vintage myself (early forties previous century) still playing recordings made in the sixties.Aad
Gentlemen,
Question 1 is hereby answered: I was assuming that I did the lub and cleaning 2 years ago before replacing the 2000 by my 1200 to play my tapes; obviously not (pic). Heads and slack absorbers gave off a nice brown stuff using a q-tip that impies that the slightest drag causes the problem.
Question2 to remains as asked.
I wish you could hear now Clifford Brown blowing off my whiskeyglass from the bookshelf while I am continuing reading Søren's thread.
Some tapes have the "sticky-shed" syndrome, symptoms are that the tape becomes sticky and leaves a brown sticky residue ontapeheads and guides. The tape can squeel and whine when running and it can get to a point where it will simply no longer run becauseof the increased friction.Once the tape has started shedding it will only get worse and the effect cannot be reversed.There is a way around it, involving a soft "baking" of the affected tape but it's only a temporary solution so transfer important and valueablerecordings to other tapes (or a different media) when you can and try to go for tapes that doesn't shed.The problem is not limited to reel-reel tapes. Cassettetapes can also show these symptoms, some worse than others.
Martin
Hi,
On both my Beocord 2400 and Beocord 1500 the idler wheels were bad, with hardened and glazed rubber.
Jacques
My next question pertains to a problem associated with ones in this thread:
Accompanied by my BC2400 and also a BC1100 I also have BC1800 with some troubles; one is electronic, the other has to do with the drive mechanism and particularly the idler wheel(s).
to begin with the idler wheels: in ff mode : no problem; play: OK; rw mode with tape in place: it won't spin; when tape removed from machine: ff spins as it should do.
I can not discover why .
I hope I get help to solve this problem so that I can continue to work on the electronics: very poor sound quality whe connected to a BM (volume on max)
Thanks for your attention in advance
AAD