A blonde in a white truck brought me some silver today!

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Courtesy of our own resident silver trader and whiskey expert, Mr. Nick Danger!

To refresh your memories, he had posted that is was listed on Craigslist, and this is my CT-F750 to work on!

 

[Lazarus Short]

Does it run?

 

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Needs a belt or two...that was how it was sold and how I got it for $25

Zach has an 850 to send now as he just got the money order...

PS the sig line is for him...

 

[Nick Danger]

Glad to see it arrived safe and sound! What did you think of the packing job?

 

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No signs of shifting, no denting of the packing materials, box is fine and eminently reusable.

The deck got here in exactly the same condition it was shown and described from my observations, and I did push the buttons.

Thumbs up on the packing and a beautiful specimen of the Omega (ohm) and tuning fork family!

 

[Elite-ist]

Nice looking Pioneer CT-F750. I hope you get it working properly, Steven. It's odd in a cassette deck, of that vintage, to see piano key-style transport function buttons with auto-reverse and metal tape compatibility.

Nando.

 

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It's going topless in a minute...pics shortly.

 

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Well, I didn't take the pics yet but I think I can see the problem immediately, counter belt is broken. IF this is anything like my CT-20 then it really won't move one way or the other until the counter pulley does.

There is a panel on the drive side that I hope will give access to it some. Now's the time to go into the manual I saved...and find all those generic size belts I got.

 

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Know what I figured out taking that panel off?

It had probably never been removed

That and the big panel on the other side only reveal the bottoms of PCBs.

This was mighty NICE though, compared to upside-down boards, poor access to pots and such, finding the SANKYO Sankyo mech I had was built with this big black plastic thing that didn't show you how to get the PLAY belt going again or just plain not even HAVING a removable bottom panel!

What is that they say at those Olympics?

(I gotta pay HOW MUCH to sit away from Putin?)

No...CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS I think it was.

 

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Here are those pictures:

 

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While I'm at it, I used the demagnatizer TH's Shotwell sent me for my early birthday present and went over the CT-W770's recording deck head carefully as the instructions read...(the first one not the twin I just got running sorta, the playback deck got goofy again and I pulled it to check again)...

I'm going to see if that helped any in a minute or two. Hope, but not counting on it.