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RE: The round thingy...

Posted by akolegov (A) on August 13, 2017 at 12:17:50

In Reply to: The round thingy... posted by kootenay on August 13, 2017 at 11:50:23:

Thanks for your opinion.

There's no smell now (and I wonder where it came from recently), and the motor is hot, but not VERY hot.

Yesterday I was visited by a friend who is not a tech but who has about 10 cassette recorders (none of which works!) and has a vast tape recording experience.
He thoroughly cleaned the heads and pinch rollers with Isopropyl and a cotton stick - and the pinch rollers were dirty! How could it happen if the seller claimed that he had serviced the deck just before sale?

My friend said that the dirty pinch rollers might have caused the problem - they damaged the tape during recording. I made a test recording just now and everything seems OK, but at the same time, I am looking for a good tech who knows Revox decks and who could service it.

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