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In Reply to: RE: ReVox A-77 optical shut off sensor part? posted by Marantzguy on September 24, 2007 at 12:56:00
Richard, Richard, Richard. :)
Are you saying that you didn't pull the bulb out years ago, like every other pro Revox user? ;)
Try Steve Smith in Nashville. I don't have his phone # handy, but he's in Madison, TN. He refurbished my Mk IV 3-4 years ago and did a great job. He's easy to find (411, Google, call a couple studios which have Studers).
hth
Follow Ups:
Hi, Inmate51!
No, I never thought about removing the lamp.
Let me tell you something which might possibly amuse you.
I had a friend who once used his A-77 to make live recordings. He warned me to watch out when setting up an A-77 so the machine was facing AWAY from the audience at all times.
Why was this?
Because one time while he was recording in an auditorium, he left the metal tape patch cover flipped down and his deck was tilted slightly toward the audience. When someone in the audience used a flash attachment on a camera, the strobe light reached his deck and the brilliant flash actually penetrated the open gate of his machine, reached over the tape path and struck the sensor, literally shutting him down in the middle of a live event.
Lesson learned the hard way!
Also, even if you were to remove that lamp, if any bright flashing light were to reach the sensor, the same thing would occur.
Actually, don't you want your machine to automatically stop the reels from turning when tape runs out, especially if you operate the machine unattended for some time?
Richard Links
Berkeley, CA
"shutting him down in the middle of a live event."
Ouch!!
As far as taking the lamp out vs. keeping it in to auto-stop the machine, I've always preferred to have it out. With the amount of editing I used to do for getting tapes ready for transfer to LP, it was just easier to not have the machine going into "stop" every time I'd pull the tape out of the path. (I'd have the reel motors off, and the machine in FF or FR so I could rock the tape to an exact point to mark for editing.)
Hi, Inmate51:
I see your point!
Richard Links
Berkeley, CA
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