Recent content by C.D.S.

Unfortunately no...he worked on this more than 3 years and now belts work. You can purchase all from him directly, but not expect that belts will be cheap...as sweatybetty mentioned Marrs before...Pete's belts are same price range and about quality...well...you see results

Of course...you can contact Pete via his mail: peter(@)nysc.co.uk just remove ( ). He have also some other things...one of them is Nakamichi classic mech reel table kit

In 2023 i tested 3D printed capstan belts for Nakamichi Sankyo DD and classic mechanism from UK friend Pete who made them. Sankyo belt gives outstanding results but for classic mechanism not. Sankyo DD have from 0.023 - 0,030%WRMS on all decks which i have that time and here is plot/graph from...

@nakdoc thank you.

For measuring take-up and supply torque, this cassette is good: https://www.ebay.com/itm/404619238390?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=wouoc_wxtik&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=gbLl4lomSgO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY for Dragon you need similar just grams must be switched...

yes...NAAC works as new and deck is n 100% working condition.

wrong...all works as 1200 is also autoreverse...and both heads have 6 channels

I got Nakamichi Dragon for full service. Visually it was in very good shape but owner complains that deck not sounds as it should. It was purchased from web and no records about deck's state. As deck's mechanism was »dead« i need to rebuild it before anything else. After inspection real state...

It is obviously that you have to much time Vince (joking) Very good and interesting work

Thank you, but no, thank you.

There is nothing like this in deck...it just counts errors and it must be under 1000 in 10 seconds. If it's above...then "cleaning" shows. Another thing is, which is not mentioned in Technics SM, but it is in Panasonic's...here is C/P: REGARDING THE CLEANING INDICATOR... The cleaning indicator...

Not have any cleaning mechanism

After decades of denying of servicing digital units, friend "almost beg me on knees" to check his DAT...it shows "cleaning" on display and sound is distorted. I opened it and cleaned head and all parts which touching tape as i cleaned ages ago my Grundig VHS VCR. Deck starting to play...

Cool...keep posting airbags

Im banned for life there. I was thinking about Lutz(Lucky) but he is 100km away from Hanover so not like to bother