Hi everyone,
A while back I bought a Philips D8080 (for images and info: http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philips_voving_sound_d8080d808.html) with a few issues. The first and most important of these was that the tape player wouldn't work. The second was that the box is missing its battery cover.
The tape player only turned the tape for a split second before stopping completely. I thought it was reasonable to assume it was a slipping belt, so set to dismantling the box to have a look. It turns out that it was pretty difficult to navigate in there. I really get the impression that Philips didn't anticipate anyone attempting to service the D8080 - everything seems pretty awkward to get too and there were lots of plastic clips that felt ready to break whenever they were pulled apart or put back together, especially the deck itself, which I couldn't figure out how to get apart at all without breaking it.
So after taking it all apart, cleaning the case and finding that a colony of ants had made a home for themselves in the styrofoam around the drinks compartment, I found that the belt was fine, and that the play gear was missing a few teeth. Both the rewind and fast-forward gears were also missing teeth, however still worked. After researching the internet and finding that the Philips boxes of the era were a little notorious for this, and given that I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to get to the gear in question, I decided to put a blob of blu-tac where the missing gears were, which seems to have done the trick, at least for now.
As this is my first restoration (and my first cassette deck since I was about 8), it was only after doing this and putting the box back together that I noticed another now obvious issue with this deck. I tested a tape only to find that the tape was running stupidly fast and the speed was fluttering all over the place. After a bit of research I found that this may result from a worn out pinch roller, so after finding out what a pinch roller actually was, went to check on my machine only to find it was missing it all together. I've attached an image where you can see this.
So my question here is if anyone knows what sized pinch rollers a D8080 takes? I've got my eye on a 13 mm diameter one on ebay, which from what I can see seems fairly standard. This one also has a built in axle, which suits me as I'm missing that too. Any help here would be great.
My other question is whether a fellow D8080 owner would be kind enough to send some detailed image of the battery cover. I'm hoping to replicate it in some way. I'm not sure how yet, but my brother has access to a 3d printer, so that might be an option.
Thanks for reading my rather lengthy first post, and any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
A while back I bought a Philips D8080 (for images and info: http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philips_voving_sound_d8080d808.html) with a few issues. The first and most important of these was that the tape player wouldn't work. The second was that the box is missing its battery cover.
The tape player only turned the tape for a split second before stopping completely. I thought it was reasonable to assume it was a slipping belt, so set to dismantling the box to have a look. It turns out that it was pretty difficult to navigate in there. I really get the impression that Philips didn't anticipate anyone attempting to service the D8080 - everything seems pretty awkward to get too and there were lots of plastic clips that felt ready to break whenever they were pulled apart or put back together, especially the deck itself, which I couldn't figure out how to get apart at all without breaking it.
So after taking it all apart, cleaning the case and finding that a colony of ants had made a home for themselves in the styrofoam around the drinks compartment, I found that the belt was fine, and that the play gear was missing a few teeth. Both the rewind and fast-forward gears were also missing teeth, however still worked. After researching the internet and finding that the Philips boxes of the era were a little notorious for this, and given that I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to get to the gear in question, I decided to put a blob of blu-tac where the missing gears were, which seems to have done the trick, at least for now.
As this is my first restoration (and my first cassette deck since I was about 8), it was only after doing this and putting the box back together that I noticed another now obvious issue with this deck. I tested a tape only to find that the tape was running stupidly fast and the speed was fluttering all over the place. After a bit of research I found that this may result from a worn out pinch roller, so after finding out what a pinch roller actually was, went to check on my machine only to find it was missing it all together. I've attached an image where you can see this.
So my question here is if anyone knows what sized pinch rollers a D8080 takes? I've got my eye on a 13 mm diameter one on ebay, which from what I can see seems fairly standard. This one also has a built in axle, which suits me as I'm missing that too. Any help here would be great.
My other question is whether a fellow D8080 owner would be kind enough to send some detailed image of the battery cover. I'm hoping to replicate it in some way. I'm not sure how yet, but my brother has access to a 3d printer, so that might be an option.
Thanks for reading my rather lengthy first post, and any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
