JVC RC-656LB with a weird tape deck sound.

edocronian said:

So after scoring an ITT a few weeks ago, I seem to have caught the bug.

My latest fixer-upper is this slightly battered and grubby JVC 656. Mostly working apart from crackly pots, a temperamental tuner band switch and a headphone jack that cuts the left channel in and out. All fairly easy to fix I think.

There is one bigger problem with the tape deck that has me totally baffled. If I press play, I get this sound

My feeling is either some RF shielding for the motor or a cap somewhere has gone bad. Anyone have any ideas?



Fanx

Hi Edocronian,

Welcome to the world of BB. I have that boomer and it is a lovely sounding unit. It would appear that there must be something fundamental with this model, as I have the same sound on cassette playback. I thought it was probably a motor issue too, but it was one of those projects....'I'll get round to it soon'

Good luck.

Cheers

Brownlow

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docs said:

Sounds to me like you need to insert a blank tape and press record/stop on the tape deck a lot.

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