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Nice video. At 9:07 you can clearly see the tape pack is out of round but it plays flawlessly, that's why the classic mechanism is cool. Even an humble 480 can make a tape with bad shell shine.

Just seen this one on F'assbook :

More scary than funny.

Well I'm more at planning to open a museum. I know most of the potential French buyers, some of them could spend $1000 on a new super high tech Chinese made machine that will break in a few years but those won't take a free working 50 years old machine because of a tiny rust spot... There's...

Thanks, that does take more space than tape decks. Restoration is long and needs multiple skills such as metalwork, painting, plumbing, electricity...

Also found this on the forum Automaticwasher.org :

I was household appliances repair tech, always hated working on modern machines, parts nearly impossible to find, too much cheap plastics, diecast drum spider that got eaten by detergent, overcomplicated electronics with tons of useless gadgets... That's why I collect and restore vintage washing...

More than I can afford of course :p

From my friend Libra :

The screws are used to align the "Nagar" cassette decks, the method is different in these very rare decks :D

Yes I'm one of those guys. Seen the video this morning on F'ass book, I though that IPA wasn't leaving residues, well, looking for methanol now.

The very first type metal tape (Scotch Metafine) was more abrasive, but that doesn't make all other type IV abrasive. By the way any "type 0" tape will wears out the heads way more than any other tapes. Those guys just repeats old myths about cassettes such as the tapes that demagnetizes over...

Welcome to Phoenix. Every tape decks I restore are tested with a 661 receiver.