Tandberg 3000X reel to reel tape recorder repairs
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- In this video, I'm working on my Tandberg 3000X reel to reel tape recorder. The idler wheel was faulty, the pinch wheel was perished, the belts had stretched over the years, the clutches had worn out...
Thanks Ray, great video. Please do make another one when its complete, absolutely brilliant piece of history.
Yes, I will make a follow up video. Glad you liked it. Cheers, Ray.
Oh Ray, the memories of marking tape with a grease pencil and cutting with a razor blade. Degauss those blades first or you'll get a nice "click" on the tape splice. Good times making those disco remixes that went on for 30 minutes from one track on the 12" disk. 👍
I remember that! happy days!
Loved the reel to reel recorders, played with one for hours and hours when I was a child. Brilliant fun, then when I was older, played music at a slower speed, played for hours, days without changing the tape, lower quality of course, but I was busy doing something else anyway.
I used to play with my dad's reel to reel in the late 50s. As you say, great fun!
Lovely job, Ray. Tape machines have played a big part in my life. Funny to think Big Data and the 'Cloud' still rely heavily on tape, isn't ??
They are great machines. You’re right about big data. Some things never change.
I recently got my hands on a Tandberg 3600XD and replaced the brake pads much like you did along with replacing all rubber parts akin to your solutions. The only issue remaining is a fuse that keeps burning out due to shorting somewhere, so I’ll have to look into where the electronics are shorting out. Really great video, really helped me to get going with fixing the mechanical bits on the deck
I'm glad you found the video useful. I still haven't finished working on my Tandberg. The rewind doesn't work properly but I will get there, in the end. Cheers, Ray.
Nice of you to play a short blast of the Tony Blackburn show, which I suspect was from the mid to late 70s. Those were the magic days of pop radio and far more entertaining than today's rubbish. Loved the reel to reels Ray and my 70s Akai was great and lasted many years.
Those shows had a character of their own.
A lot of stations these days appear to follow the same format.
I have a few recordings on Tony Blackburn from the good old days. Love to listen to them again and again.
Thanks. Interesting
Hi Ray, yes, the price of leader tape, on Ebay, is absolutely ridiculous. Fortunately, I bought some old NAB reels, off Ebay, and one reel contained a long run of leader tape.
I'm glad you got a long run of leader tape. I now have quite a lot.
In the 70s I could only dream about owning a tape recorder of that quality de Mike G4VQH
You're right. I had a Ferguson tape recorder. It was all right but nothing like the Tandberg.
I've got a couple of Ferrographs in my tinkering pile. Interesting to see how you've tackled the issue with the hardened rubber idlers 👍
The Ferrograph machines were lovely. They had three decent motors in them!
Some strange looking square/rectangular resistors on one of the boards. Were these normal for that era? I've not seen those before. Maybe I'm too young.....
I'm old and I don't remember seeing them before... I shall look into it.
Hi Ray, thanks for sharing this interesting video. My dad used to prefer reel to reel tape recorders, though over the years, they became unusable. Thanks to a friend, I was able to record the old recordings all to cassette tape, as the tapes were literally on their last legs. My dad to save money, used to record over his tapes several times, which later caused them to become very work and brittle. Fortunately, I was able to save at least the last recordings intact and later we wiped the material from the original tapes before disposing of them. The cassette copies actually play quite well. Obtaining replacement parts for tape recorders, including cassette recorders is becoming very difficult, with the later radio cassette recorders being the hardest. I had two Panasonic radio cassette recorders in that situation and ended up donating them to our local repair shop for spare parts. I still have other tape recorders that play and record okay. Anyway, take care and all the best. Rob in Melbourne Australia.
I love the old reel to reel machines. Some of the tapes I have are 50 years old bd they do suffer from a little drop out.
Good idea with the square section belt on the idler…I have somewhere a Sony R to R to finish which has noisy idlers I’ll give that a try, as for these capacitors most of the old ones are still better than some of the modern ones today even after 50yrs.
Hi Peter, the square section belt certainly does the job. I think you're right about the caps. I think I'll leave the original one in place. Cheers, Ray.
Well done Roy - love to see another update about how you sort out the rewind Tnx Dave Shaw G4NOW
Great to hear from you Dave. Still having probs with the rewind but I'll get there. Update soon, I hope. Cheers, Ray.
If you can’t get this to rewind, turn the tapes over. And press fast forward like we did in the personal stereo days,😂
Yes, that’s what I’ve been doing. I remember the personal stereo days! 😃👍
Great project. Good luck with the repairs.
Thanks!
Great video, I’ve just ordered new belts for my 3000x, they don’t look too problematic to replace. I think I will need to order a new rubber tyre for the pinch wheel too.
It's a great machine. Good luck with the project.
@@g4nsj Belts changed but turntables rotating in opposite directions. Supply reel clockwise, take up reel anti clockwise. Looks of fragments of dried cork found inside top cover. I noticed it does need a new pinch wheel tyre as the old one in crazed and hardened. All too much for my patience/skill set so I’m afraid I’ll have to admit defeat and sell it on, pity really as it was working well until Sunday (if a little noisy)
@@crawfiecam I'm sure it will sell easily. You're rigjht, let someone else have the worry.
Keep Them Coming Ray
@@steve732 I will ! 👍
Brillent, takes me back too 👍
Nicely done.
Thanks!
good ol reel to reels! ive got an old sony a guy gave to me cause he didnt want it no more!
Sony were great, I had one for many years.
@@g4nsj back in the day he was a sony nut! all he ever bought was Sony because of the quality! now a days quality isnt a thing on some stuff!
@@AdamDeal-KF0PRI Too true, quality doesn't seem to matter these days. Sush a shame.
@@g4nsj it truely is!
Looks like mullard/phillips caps
Yes, could be.