hi - new here

[retrohead]

welcome along fellow uk'er-hope your stay is enjoyable,lots of friendly people on here,and si is right,you can get a replacement 656 for fairly cheap,in fact i had one available a short time a go you could have had it for free-sadly its gone now,but good luck with yours

 

[im_alan_partridge]

Hi Bill, welcome to the forum from another southerner. You had me at Chevette

 

[BoomboxLover48]

I don't know the whole story. I thought it has to do with a hardened pinch roller. If it is not cracked you can make it work well.

Use a 1000 grit automotive grade emery paper and gently press and hold it on the side of the pinch roller in play mode. This will remove any slippery layer from the tape debris and hardened rubber layer. Make sure you remove only a very fine layer evenly like that.

Clean any debris left on the surface and try if it works well.

 

[Bill656]

hi,

thanks for the welcomes

I'll try the sanding of the wheel, hadn't thought of that , will measure it too so can get it replaced if needed..

the 656 used to live on the back seat of my chevette (and occasionally upside down in the footwell when i braked hard) for 6 years.. it had a lead i made up that run from its 12V socket to the car supply

the chevette i have now is the same colour and will need the same lead. it has a rear seat belt tho so the 656 can be strapped in.

cheers

Bill

 

[Beosystem10]

I've used glycerine to good effect on hardened idlers and pinch rollers, the idea of roughing it up is sound, but if it's dried out then there's a risk of further damage. Glycerine is between free and very cheap unless you buy those £8 tiny bottles of it sold as "tape transport rubber cleaner" from eBay. I only bought one so that the tribology boffins at work could tell me what was in the stuff. Glycerine, nothing more and that takes the hardness out of the rubber. We do this in the MV department if we're refitting a hardened old or n/o/s screen rubber to one of my students' project cars when replacing the glass after it's been painted and even the very tight dog legs on one young lad's '59 Mercury were fitted back into the screen surround without cracking when we'd treated it so.

I floated the idea of using it for tape transport jobs on the VR forum where I was sure I'd picked it up in the first place. Anyway, one R2R specialist tried it and gave it his blessing, the thread can be seen HERE.

 

[baddboybill]

I don't know the whole story. I thought it has to do with a hardened pinch roller. If it is not cracked you can make it work well.

Use a 1000 grit automotive grade emery paper and gently press and hold it on the side of the pinch roller in play mode. This will remove any slippery layer from the tape debris and hardened rubber layer. Make sure you remove only a very fine layer evenly like that.

Clean any debris left on the surface and try if it works well.


This does work good if only surface is hardened but if all rubber is hard best just to replace

 

[Northerner]

Hi Bill, welcome to the forum from another southerner. You had me at Chevette

lol...I spent a lot of time going around and about in a mates pale blue vauxhall chevette...must've been about 1985...I still remember the registration plate! I remember there being so many of us in this car that often we had a couple of people in the boot. We even came back from the pub once with one bloke on the bonnet...until he fell off

 

[baddboybill]

Talking about Chevy Chevette I had a 77' red Chevette back in 86' that me and my buddy were driving around and picked up 5 girls. It was a blast

 

[Bill656]

ahaa..

i am a bit annoyed with the time lost herer but... of the 4 tapes i bought the one i was using to test the JVC is the one that has a problem..

i was repairing the old audioline radio/cassette in the car and used the same tape only to have it play slow/wobbly .. stuck in a different tape and all is fine..

so stuck the other tape into the JVC and voila... all works!... grrrrrrr

it was a 70's - 80's compilation tape that was the cuplrit....

the JVC has noticeable distortion, this maybe capacitors drying up or the speakers maybe a bit rough.. it isn't bad enough to worry about though, just noticeable by somebody who who works in elecronic product design

Ordered some blank tapes, TDK MA/SA 90's and will make my own 70's - 80's compilation on the technics RS-AZ6 that i recently purchased

Cheers

BIll

 

[Bill656]

heh cool info on the chevette's , with that many people in it i am surprised you got going at all

I will try the glycerine idea as it cant ber a bad thing to soften the rubber up a bit.. i had already tried some find sand paper and this definitely helped, but not enough for the duff tape..

i think the tape pressure pad for the head must be gripping the tape or the tape itself has turned "sticky" on the rear..

either way... that tape is a no go..

Bill

 

[Northerner]

Ha ha...that's a bugger! But it's the end result that's important and your 656 is working so alls good

 

[superlew]

...Well, gald you got it sorted out. I certainly learned something about deck troubleshooting - Check the cassette.
Enjoy.