After almost 12 painstaking hours, Deck 2 is fully functional. The deck was disabled and was bypassed when received, but knew that when purchasing. She arrived in 2 large boxes sent priority mail to Canada, grand total for shipping was $260 plus the unit o_0 ..
On to the repair: one arm for the cassette door was found to be missing, the play ff rew or any other buttons would not lock in place. After careful examination there was a spring missing that had 2 functions; to lock the buttons in position, and the same spring also returned the eject mechanism. After finding the problem it was obvious the door arm was broken in an attempt to open it after the spring had fallen off. The spring was non existent inside the unit , so parts boxes came into play- manged to fashion a spring that would operate both the key lock and the eject mechanism, and fashioned a new door arm from a similar unit-. After some tweaking of cassette speeds, the final product came to light , restored to it`s complete glory.
This unit sounds like a house stereo and weighs as much as one, peaking the scale at 49.6 pounds! The bass and overall tonal characteristics are wonderful, as is the appearance of this rare bird. She is very happy amongst her newfound friends
Attached a video for those who might be interested in seeing the operation of the unit
http://youtu.be/ZbLHo07ZmvE
On to the repair: one arm for the cassette door was found to be missing, the play ff rew or any other buttons would not lock in place. After careful examination there was a spring missing that had 2 functions; to lock the buttons in position, and the same spring also returned the eject mechanism. After finding the problem it was obvious the door arm was broken in an attempt to open it after the spring had fallen off. The spring was non existent inside the unit , so parts boxes came into play- manged to fashion a spring that would operate both the key lock and the eject mechanism, and fashioned a new door arm from a similar unit-. After some tweaking of cassette speeds, the final product came to light , restored to it`s complete glory.
This unit sounds like a house stereo and weighs as much as one, peaking the scale at 49.6 pounds! The bass and overall tonal characteristics are wonderful, as is the appearance of this rare bird. She is very happy amongst her newfound friends
Attached a video for those who might be interested in seeing the operation of the unit
http://youtu.be/ZbLHo07ZmvE
but am up for the challenge 
