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The Tascam head disassembled.

Taking a short break from home renovation while drywall joint compound dries. Want to try a better head before I take this further. Got a Tascam 122 MkIII head from a electronics recycler. The original head, disassembled, and the Teac Tascam head. Note the bronze shim. It sits directly under the...

If it's a 2000 Series 2 with the Alps push button switches, they're easy to take apart and clean. The plunger and contacts pop out I've a Series 1 with a different manufacturers switches, not Alps, distinctly different, not service friendly. If Alps, I'd completely remove the switch board from...

I've three PL2000's, rebuilt stock or highly modified, all have a slightly momentary click of static when exercising the tone control switch. Very subdued and quiet. Turn on thump is a different matter. As a aside, not the resistor they used to jump across the power switch. The unit is always...

Haven't done much to with this lately. The Microscan calibrates nicely to TDK D and SA tapes, but fails on the metal MA due to low output to the Microscan board, Clearly have a level issue with the tape selector switched to metal. Was a good point to take a break from this. Just got around to...

Supremely cool that the 700 backplanes are used.

Hey Gene! Been listening to FM and some Walkabouts while I work on kitchen renovation.

Well, I certainly am!

A fantastic hobby. Keeps us older guys learning and engaged. Welcome to the Community!

Depends on what unit your working on. For example the Phase Linear deck has two oscillators, a 400 Hz and 10 kHz. The oscillators frequency amplitudes are adjusted with trimmers. 400 Hz to -3.7 dBV (653mv). 10 kHz to -18.7 dBV (116mv). The scan board needs to be put into test mode with shorting...

Bad ground somewhere, perhaps a missing screw, or perhaps it's in the headphone jack,

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The HP Magnetic Tape Recording Handbook.

Get well Gene, stay out of the hospital!

My understanding that the "click" is the relay opening and ungrounding the amps output. I've never put a ohm meter across the circuit to check this, however. The guys who repair these would know for sure. My three units have been trouble free so I've never investigated. I did have one relay that...

Raised the head height with a hard paper shim. Had some erratic high frequency distortion on the right channel and a somewhat lower signal amplitude. All fixed with the shim. Read that it's common for Pioneer heads to be mounted slightly low. Sure was the case here with the replacement head...

So here's the Playback EQ FR I'm going to run with for now. A +3.5 dBV peak at 2 kHz. Read somewhere that being within a 5 dBV variance is good. I don't know. I'll revisit this later. Thanks to whoever made the Exel program, can't recall where I found it.

Making progress. Using a 7 decade resistor substitution box to dial in the playback head parallel LCR circuit damping. I'm finally understanding a little about how to match heads to the deck. Problem is magnetic heads aren't ideal inductors and the on-line calculators give poor results. Very...

I really like mine, a marvelous piece of analog test equipment. Well worth saving!

Hard to say. The issue could be anywhere in the chain. Ideally you'd input the signal at the antenna connection with a RF Generator and start probing the signal path from there. Could be anything from a bad connection, cracked resistor, transistor, cap, etc. There's also a possibility someone's...