After many years of searching on and off....ebay, nak contacts etc, etc... finally spotted just after Christmas on ebay..


from Slovakia of all places! 

( a T section/ profile tyre that has been impossible to match up previously)

so that plus some elbow grease = this





and so quiet now, quieter than it's ever been.. ... happy as a dog with two tails....

Never play Leapfrog with a Unicorn.

don't know that deck, is it a good one ?

Technics RS-B100.. their TOTL deck 84-86

Yes, it is highly rated, and not just by me....

Never play Leapfrog with a Unicorn.

Happiness is........
Been sorting through all the cassettes I've had in the garage and other places, and have ended up throwing most of them away. Old cheap ones that wont play anymore and some that had mould inside them from being stored in the garage. Nothing that I needed. The ones I want to keep have been stored inside.

Tried to get my Teac v770 working but it still wont play after replacing the belts.
Not to worry, managed a lot of listening with my Teac V3000 until it played up.
Found an old Akai 46D and carried on listening/sorting.

Anyhow, I was annoyed that the mint V3000 had turned faulty as well. The recording/playing indication bar display sometimes started displaying halfway up the bar, so wouldn't play a tape.
Pulled the cover off today and it wouldn't play up. Put the cover back on and did up the back screw and the bar display shot right up.
Cover off, and I pushed and pulled the back and front of the chassis, and saw the bar light up and go back to normal as I did.

LSS..I checked the circuit boards for shorts and found one earthing screw on one board loose, tightened it ..fixed. So glad to have my V3000 back! Happiness reigns.
Didn't need to buy the Yamaha KX580 last week after all.
Plan is to copy/save cassettes onto my laptop, using the Korg I bought recently, then on to cds or an SSD.

Aug 3, 2022 21:56:00 GMT 12 neilsan said:

Happiness is........
Been sorting through all the cassettes I've had in the garage and other places, and have ended up throwing most of them away. Old cheap ones that wont play anymore and some that had mould inside them from being stored in the garage. Nothing that I needed. The ones I want to keep have been stored inside.

Tried to get my Teac v770 working but it still wont play after replacing the belts.
Not to worry, managed a lot of listening with my Teac V3000 until it played up.
Found an old Akai 46D and carried on listening/sorting.

Anyhow, I was annoyed that the mint V3000 had turned faulty as well. The recording/playing indication bar display sometimes started displaying halfway up the bar, so wouldn't play a tape.
Pulled the cover off today and it wouldn't play up. Put the cover back on and did up the back screw and the bar display shot right up.
Cover off, and I pushed and pulled the back and front of the chassis, and saw the bar light up and go back to normal as I did.

LSS..I checked the circuit boards for shorts and found one earthing screw on one board loose, tightened it ..fixed. So glad to have my V3000 back! Happiness reigns.
Didn't need to buy the Yamaha KX580 last week after all.
Plan is to copy/save cassettes onto my laptop, using the Korg I bought recently, then on to cds or an SSD.

Well well done Neil.

Ive been investigating checking and cleaning some tape decks as well.

Making sure of contacts, cleaning old oxidised ones can sometimes really help, great tip.

What's the Korg?

I dismantled the old Akai to reglue the wood surround it's mounted in.Lot bigger motor and flywheel inside it compared to later players.And a very long belt!

The Korg DS-DAC-10R is one I bought off TradeME recently to replace the Tascam recorder I've used in the past.

www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/electronics-photography/home-audio/other/listing/3664751845?bof=aSTqes6o

Using it now to record tapes that I want to save.Like old family recordings, nice to hear my parent's/grandparent's voices sometimes.
Been saving my family videos onto SSD drives as well, now I have some time. How did I have time to work?

But the lawns are calling now!

That Bastard is great to deal with.

Aug 4, 2022 16:58:39 GMT 12 Citroen said:

That Bastard is great to deal with.

Very nice chap. I met with him selling my NIB SME 3009 S2 Improved tonearm many years ago.