Who has Decks and What Kind

pennysdad · Aug 2, 2013

it's got a full race crossflow head and fuel injection, with a nitrided stainless steel crankshaft....

derek92994 · Aug 2, 2013

Sounds like my Nakamichi 480, rewinds and fast forwards tapes that quick that I'm worried it will snap them when it gets to the end :toothy10:

Elite-ist · Aug 4, 2013

bobbysdad said:

I believe I have an old magazine article on the 550. Once you receive your Nakamichi 550, I will scan the article and post it for you. As you said earlier, it was one of the best portable recorders of its time. I would love to see you get it working properly.

Nando.

pennysdad · Aug 8, 2013

Elite-ist said:

Well, I've got it now Nando.
It's almost as bad as I expected. It does work, but it'll need some tweaking.
The left ch is up on level lots on the right, but at least they are both working. A good cleanup of the heads and guides is in order.
Also, it's VU lights don't work and the pause won't latch so that'll have to be fixed too.
The outside physical condition is not as bad as I expected though. That should clean up quite nicely.

All will be revealed once I crack it open. I have the service manual, so some serious reading up is in order first.
Still looks very nice though.

Anyway, for now, I'll put it aside, until it starts raining again.

George.

laatsch55 · Aug 10, 2013

Also, it's VU lights don't work and the pause won't latch

No relation....

orange · Aug 10, 2013

That's a Laatsch that won't pause...

pennysdad · Aug 10, 2013

orange said:

too much oil....

orange · Oct 7, 2013

Two decks came for $15 from CL today and one mostly works while the other should do with one or two belts I'm hoping...

The first is the Pioneer CT-20, Dolby B-only basic model from 1983? I'm guessing, same as the failed SA-1050 that would've mated with the TX-950 I have for a set. I does play but the takeup reel doesn't move and the tape gets bunched up inside the shell (which was remedied easily with a rewind and fast forward before playing on the other deck. It will not fully engage in play (my guess is that since the counter does not move it goes into auto stop)...no FF/TAKEUP movement, whether or not the counter belt is good, no forward movement to engage record and hence auto stop.I can't get the meters to move in REC because of this but they DO register when in play and the tape is somehow moving over the head...

No tape was eaten at ALL so I don't thjink the capstan was the problem...

No. 2 actually works and with some TLC will come out nicer. It's an Akai CS-M02 with fluorescent meters, Dolby B-only vasriable headphone/line output knob, rec mute and other than the recording level and playback level pots needing a good cleaning seems to work very nicely! I DID work the output pot out and cleared that problem for the most part but the recording leve pots (concentric) need a good cleaning.

It too has a bad belt somewhere between the drive and the counter and that in turn means it won't stop automatically, the exact opposite of the Pioneer. The counter moves some here and a fraction there, however that works out for functions.

Now the flash/no flash shots for lights.

derek92994 · Oct 7, 2013

Nice decks Steven, hope you can nurse them back to health. Did you ever get my mix tapes? I have the track list handy if you have already listened to them.

orange · Oct 8, 2013

derek92994 said:

I did and they are awaiting some quality time with Nick's while I'm not busy moving the house about and maiking my sciatic nerve b*&$# at me. It will be interesting to hear how the Sony Metal XRs sound as I never recorded any.

I almost had an entire shelf or LPs come down but for the VHS camcorders below them stopping the lot...my RCA Records CD-4 demo LP for Panasonic and a few other choice titles were in that section (Whew)!

The Akai isn't so hard but I hard to rule out other reasons for the Pioneer than the probable belts.

derek92994 · Jan 20, 2015

This one was posted on AK by Alex, truly a beautiful machine....

Northwinds · Jan 20, 2015

I have a deck on the front and back of the house, does that count?

derek92994 · Jan 20, 2015

Northwinds said:

I guess it could, but you wouldn't hear much sound, except the sound of a cassette dropping onto it

BubbaH · Jan 20, 2015

Northwinds said:

Unless you got pics, no it doesnt.

Dazen1 · Jan 21, 2015

I have no decks. :pale:

Master Tasuke · Jan 23, 2015

Web Police · Jan 23, 2015

orange · Jan 24, 2015

CT-F950 and 1250 are the last two classic Pioneer cassette decks I need to complete my collection.

Reel:

Sony TC-230
Akai GX-636
Teac 2340/A-2340 TWO
Sansui SD-5050
Revox A 77
Pioneer RT-909

Cassette decks (partial):

PIONEER

CT-F2121 (TWO and one parts unit)
3 500s as parts units
2 615s
650 (soon to be two)
700
750
850
900
1000 coming soon
CT-20, 3000 (TWO)
CT-S705
CT-W770R
a number of other single and dual 80s and 90s black decks

H-R100 8-track recorder

SK-21, 31, 71, 350 boomboxes

PK-R7AW Walkman recorder

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Akai HX-2
Onkyo TA-2050 and I think 2044
Sony TC-4A, -K65, -FX311, can't remember the portable number (1974-ish 134?SD), CFS-66 and -F5 boomboxes
Sankyo STD-2000
Rotel RD-1000?
Realistic SCT-30, 31, 56, TR-884 8-track recorder
Hitachi TRK-7040H boombox, don't recall if I still have the D-E1 cassette deck
Teac V-500X

MarkWComer · Jan 24, 2015

orange said:

WOW! WHAT A COLLECTION YOU HAVE! But... No Elcaset?

How about a vintage late '50s RCA tape cartridge machine?
Two videos I made for Ebay auctions on RCA machines I had:

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Elite-ist · Jan 24, 2015

Thanks for the videos. Cool decks, Mark. Do you still look for more of those vintage tape decks? I do have a Sony EL-7, which I am using to create an upcoming mix tape for a member, here.

Click on image to play video:

Nando.

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