Hi
I'm new to this forum, but I'm happy finding it! I have just started to awaken my 1980 model Silver ST858L, and are facing quite a few issues. Tape deck right spool wont run in Play mode (but it does when FF, and Rewind works, too), and AUX in audio (when REC enabled) has a low-frequent hiss in its background. Also, the LEDs (when active in REC mode) produces a noisy sound when lit ON/OFF, which I do remember was present in the 1980's, but not to the level it is now. I am quite worried that the 37 years old electrolytic capacitors (which I believe they are in quite a few numbers) are worn and having much less capacity than when new, thus producing strange artefacts...
I was just trying to download the service pdf file when I was getting an error stating that I was not allowed to download anything because of too few postings! So, perhaps this single post can make this happen? A service manual would be highly appreciated!
EDIT: I just succeeded downloading the pdf file. Excellent! Thanks a lot.