Alpage AL-300 Help

[Quadmatrix82]

Hi all,

Just joined this forum, fantastic to see how much knowledge is still out there on all things cassette.

I’m currently repairing an Alpage Al300, its a lovely deck but has several issues - I’ve replaced all the belts and pinch rollers (sourced from fixyouraudio) however I’m not sure how to adjust the pinch roller (left hand side)

when i press play or rewind or fast forward it stops after a few seconds

can anyone suggest what is the procedure to adjust the left hand pinch rollers mechanism?

 

[20tajk7]

Hi and welcome to Phoenix.

To adjust the left pinch roller you need an M300 gauge and a mirror cassette.
The height of the rollers is adjusted by two 5.0 or 5.5mm nuts locking to each other, it's a bit tedious to get the right alignement.

The stop problem is not related to the pinch rollers.
This might be a bad counter belt as the counter pulley has a magnetic ring who sends pulses to the autostop circuit via a reed switch (you should hear a faint clicking in play mode).

 

[Quadmatrix82]

Hi and welcome to Phoenix.

To adjust the left pinch roller you need an M300 gauge and a mirror cassette.
The height of the rollers is adjusted by two 5.0 or 5.5mm nuts locking to each other, it's a bit tedious to get the right alignement.

The stop problem is not related to the pinch rollers.
This might be a bad counter belt as the counter pulley has a magnetic ring who sends pulses to the autostop circuit via a reed switch (you should hear a faint clicking in play mode).

Thankyou 20tajk7! I’m looking forward to learning how to get this lovely deck up and running!

I will check the counter belt, I did change it but will look it over to see if anything a miss

I have a m300 on the way which I got from aliexpress

Yet to find a mirror cassette, any suggestion where to find one? I was thinking of making my own