All those who contributed words of advice and encouragement to fix the tape deck on my prized Sharp GF9696. (Often via the S2G tech section).
It worked for about 30 minutes when I first got it, then chewed the tape and has sat for a year without a working deck.
The issue was the good old chestnut of the Sharp capstan rubber drive disintegrating and turning to mush.
So finally a couple of nights ago I though 'to heck with it' and armed with some nice small bore rubber fuel pipe donated by a workmate who is well into model boats I made a replacement tyre, stripped the whole machine and removed the deck and figured I was gonna fix this if it took me till the early hours of the morning!
Well, an hour or so later, after one assemble and then disassemble again (I forgot one of the multiway connectors!!) I powered it up and............hey presto she sings again, with a take-up drive as strong as an ox!!
I'm really proud, and it wasn't THAT difficult, I'll be happy (ish) to tackle another one
It worked for about 30 minutes when I first got it, then chewed the tape and has sat for a year without a working deck.
The issue was the good old chestnut of the Sharp capstan rubber drive disintegrating and turning to mush.
So finally a couple of nights ago I though 'to heck with it' and armed with some nice small bore rubber fuel pipe donated by a workmate who is well into model boats I made a replacement tyre, stripped the whole machine and removed the deck and figured I was gonna fix this if it took me till the early hours of the morning!
Well, an hour or so later, after one assemble and then disassemble again (I forgot one of the multiway connectors!!) I powered it up and............hey presto she sings again, with a take-up drive as strong as an ox!!
I'm really proud, and it wasn't THAT difficult, I'll be happy (ish) to tackle another one
