A little late to the party here but I appreciate the video. I have had one of these for some time and was motivated to bring it out of storage and get it operational. This video, and a couple others you've done, got me where I needed to be. Thanks for providing the service and excellent, easy to understand help.

Dave, Your neighbors tell each other: when our neighbor opens up his garage door and sits at his desk, he starts talking to himself.😉 (they don't know you record video's) Nice repair and testing!

Great tutorial video Dave. I’m just restoring an Akai 325D dual capstan 3-head unit. The model up. The biggest improvement was to replace both the pinch rollers and change out the belts even though to they eye they looked reasonable. Very low flutter now on steady tone. Also my counter and tape run mechanism was equally gummed up causing the auto-stop mechanism to trigger. Well built machinery. Keep up the good work!

really like watching a person who is a master of their trade wished you lived in the UK I've got some old stuff that could do with a service keep the videos coming Billy from Broadstairs England

Liked before even watching always good content...Keep it up.

Outstanding job as always. I had one of the very early top loading Sony Stereo cassette deck for years, I believe it was a TC-125. It got dropped in a move and had the cracks in the board where the screws went in. I was able to patch the traces and secure it and it kept working for years more. Again Great job Dave.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Hey want one? I have an old Sony top loader.

One can just admire how these decks were built, built to last. and the great thing is that they are servicable and as long as parts were available they could always be brought back to specs.

@cullenaustin6882

2 жыл бұрын

sorry to be offtopic but does any of you know of a tool to get back into an instagram account? I stupidly lost the account password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me

@salvatoredash5823

2 жыл бұрын

@Cullen Austin Instablaster =)

@cullenaustin6882

2 жыл бұрын

@Salvatore Dash Thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and im waiting for the hacking stuff now. Takes a while so I will reply here later with my results.

@cullenaustin6882

2 жыл бұрын

@Salvatore Dash It worked and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy! Thanks so much you saved my ass :D

@salvatoredash5823

2 жыл бұрын

@Cullen Austin no problem :D

I like the tape run mechanism. They had a mechanical solution to anything they wanted to achieve back in the day! I recently worked on an old Wharfdale deck and it's tape run indicator was a slotted disc running over a lamp 🙂

I use to be able to buy a bottle of "Rubber Re-Grip". Not sure what it was made of, but i used it to restore direct-drive wheels, capstan pinch rollers, dried out belts, etc. And it truly did work! Don't know if you can still buy it...

You're the champ of fixing that kind of equipment, that's for sure.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Wait for a new very old tape recorder video. How old? Put it this way I have never seen one of these units and when I google no results come up. It is a reel to reel made by Minerva. Should be an interesting unit to get into.

@johnb5519

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Sounds Interesting.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnb5519 I am sure it will stay tuned.

Thanks for showing me how to fix the tape counter. I have the same deck (with the remote) and the counter has not worked in at least 30 years. Just a little bit of grease, thanks. I also have a Teac D3500 with the same problem I'll get it out of storage and grease it up too.

HEY fond memories come back... I am Still in possession of GXC325D..so much similar except for silver bezel on meters and 50 Hz operation.. (no 50-60 Hz switch).... sadly playback mechanical issue..unable to overcome....that floating spring-loaded intermediate " jockey" wheel that transfers capstan drive to take-up wheel on playback just doesn't do its job.. and then timeout trips it off later... changed the rubbers on jockey & take up pulley ..that did not help.. tried with diff. springs too...no luck... this machine never gave any other trouble .., except for replacing main belt every 2 years.. A REAL WORK HORSE for me.. may have done 50+ recordings on C-60 .. Our one & only tape machine from '81 ..and worked upto 2002.. sometimes more than 6 hours a day... maybe one day I will have another go at it..

Australia seems to have a lot of the Nu-trol only It's not cheap.

Repair of that PCB was a good call.

Thank you SO much for this video!!

HEY MAN you had me rolling on the floor laughing. The other side of the leaf blower coin. "That guy in his garage across the street is supposedly repairing electronics. OH NO! He's making terrible squeaking and squealing sounds. Just trying to spook my dog. Every time I come outside he starts that squealing and squeaking stuff." Still laughing so hard I can barely type. I LOVE IT!

I have the maximum trust for natural rubber to outlive by far the synthetic stuff. I have masks made of natural rubber that are 40 years old and apart from some whitish powder blooming that you have to clean up after years of storage they're still supple and flexible. I've also got more recent grey rubber masks and those turn into sticky mush... they do it on the most external layer that you can clean up with alcohol but eventually all of the compound will be affected. The external suspensions on my SONY G1 speakers which is rubber from 79 still retain their properties... that should be natural as well and they don't appear to have degraded at all, it's still supple and dark deep black, probably Seas drivers.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 12VoltVids... Where the "Analog Whisper" meets the "Mechanical Engineer @ Jim William's desk 😎 Thank You! 👍😁 p.s. Your camera's "dept of field" left me gobsmacked 🤤. With the Akai flat then on it's side, "cannot be denied"... the [focus] was magical 🤗

You didn't just try to record a 10kHz sine tone at 0dB, now did you? A used Type II cassette tape's SOL at 10kHz is -5dB at best, with 0dB being 160 nWb/m on this unit. So the 5dB drop on playback is perfectly within the specification of the deck. The non-linear saturation over frequency is the reason why frequency response on tape decks was always measured at around -20dB 😉

That damn leaf blower 😅

@JacobFrey

4 жыл бұрын

I hate leaf blowers as much as anybody, but I'll take that over a 10kHz sine wave any day.

Solder iron the leaf blowers fingers, Great repair ,well done.

As you have pulled the capstan shaft out of the capstan bearing and pushed it back through again do you go back and check the capstan for any oil that may have got deposited on it as a result. As there would be some lubricant in the Bearing you wouldn’t want it getting on the capstan and tape or pinch roller.

Hi there... I own one of these and the left vu meter light sometimes stays on and then goes out...(still had sound lit up or not) was gently pressing on the circuit board and then it'll come back on...( the board that you happened to fix that was cracked here...) I did remove the screws to clean underneath and cleaned the contact switches... put it back together only to find that the left vu meter is out, can't get it to come back on, no counter lights and no sound... I double checked the way I put it back together. Am I landing on a wire of some sort somewhere that's canceling these things?

nice repaiar.you are proffessor.thenks for video

Leaf blowers should be illegal in my humble opinion. All they do is move leaves from your place to your neighbours place. Love your videos Dave. Currently I have my Akai GXC39D that we bought new in the seventies. Last time I used it it was fine but now I cannot get power to the motor. No transport but VU meters jump a little when switching so it's not completely dead. Watching as many videos as I can to get inspiration. My ears jumped when you sent 10KHz to the deck! At least I could hear it (I'm 75). My current working deck is a Nakamichi Dragon that works perfectly. I also have a Nakamichi 582 that is currently on loan to a friend of mine who is in the process of digitising her collection of (original and mainly her own compositions) cassettes. She has two decks of her own but the one she wanted to use in her home studio was not working. She took it to a local 'Hi-Fi' shop, very trendy with lots of high-end equipment for sale as well as over-confident and too cool for words staff. The shop owner took her deck (and a Rotel power amplifier that was also dropping one channel) FOUR MONTHS ago. When, finally, they got around to looking at her gear, they informed her that the deck was now 'as good as new' and that the problem with the power amp intermittent fault was resolved. Upon returning home with the 'repaired' gear, she was horrified to find that none of the problems had been repaired. They charged her $550 for the deck repair and $250 for the amp repair. My friend has spent a lifetime in studios as a music composer and producer so they made a big mistake trying to rip her off like this. She is now in the process of retrieving her gear and demanding refunds. Turns out that all the 'technician' did was to clean the heads on the deck. The problem with the amplifier turned out to be a speaker cable intermittent fault, nothing to do with the amp. But they still charged her $250 to connect it to their speakers and find that it was operating normally. Yes, she should have checked the speaker cables before taking the amp to the shop. But $250? and $550 for cleaning the heads on the deck? Your clients are very lucky that you are providing such honest and skilled service. People like you are hard to find. Best regards from Melbourne Australia, Don.

@12voltvids

2 жыл бұрын

Geez if i could get 500 to clean heads I would have become a millionaire 20 years sooner then I did.

@australianbloke3934

2 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Even millionaires have to put up with leaf blowers apparently..:-)

@12voltvids

2 жыл бұрын

@@australianbloke3934 we do because all the other millionaire in the neighbourhood have landscapers mowing their lawns. I'm not kidding either. Everything in my neighborhood is close to 2 million to buy.

A broken trace on the PCB, this is interesting. This is a decent cassette deck.

Ah, the era of quality :)

Nice Repair!, i wish you were closer to me. i have a couple items that need to be looked at. $700 to clean your gutters LOL! i just replaced mine for $500

Always thought, judging from the specs alone, that the 310d was junk, for this day and age, but looking at its internal construction, I have to say, it most definitely isn't. Great looking chassis and the plywood case looks shockingly good. A very clever idea, filming the repair process: killing two birds with one stone. Can't help thinking, if all repair technicians did it, we'd have a huge archive containing any device one can imagine. That would be something!

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

If I was still in the business and made my living doing this I wouldn't be recording it. 2 reasons. 1) Recording makes the repair take at least twice as long, to set up the shot and then think about what to say when rolling. 2) More importantly, trade secrets. Why teach someone something that took me years to learn? That is inviting someone to set up shop across the street and undercut my business. Had to deal with that when I was in the business. All of a sudden we were in a labour price war. So you are spending 2 hours on the job but only charging for 1 because the guy across the street has a flat rate regardless how long it takes. Now I don't care. I don't do this for a living. I do it to produce original content which i do make money on. The 50 bucks I charge for the average repair is just icing on the cake. Educating the masses on how to care for their old devices is satisfying. A way of giving back what took me years to master.

@Stelios.Posantzis

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Haha - my bad! Here I was wondering how the hell does he manage to say the right thing while he's thinking of how to go about fixing the darned thing. It should be full of errs... uhmms...a-ha's yet it isn't. Well now I know why ; ) Btw just because you'd be recording a repair, that doesn't mean to say you'd also publish the entire repair or even publish it at all while your business could suffer from exposing your skills, so trade secrets would be safe. Then again, video editing takes up a tremendous amount of time.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

His do you know I don't say, um and ah, and few four letters words? Customer caught me today saying to myself "you have to be shitting me" when I opened the box of equipment and found 2 smoke detectors instead of a smoky and a carbon monoxide. I scanned it out myself and put it on the box. Someone had put a smoke detector on the shelf with the CO detector and when I scanned it I just grabbed the first one on the shelf and didn't read the label. I get to the job and have the wrong part. Argh. At least I had a back in my inventory.

Beautiful machine :-) - same buttons and meters as my open reel 630D ;-)

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Real metal knobs.

34 years, and the belts haven't turned to sticky residue.

@GeorgeGeorge-xj2bc

4 жыл бұрын

For sure have been replaced some other time.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

My akai gx260 which is older than this still has original belt.

@sebastianchibrac4877

4 жыл бұрын

What is the best way to remove this stuff? My ITT deck's belts have turned into this sticky paste.

@lachlanlau

2 жыл бұрын

@@sebastianchibrac4877 windex. Works wonders.

@sebastianchibrac4877

2 жыл бұрын

@@lachlanlau since I've left this comment, I've been able to clean it up with isopropyl alcohol.

Another useful test is the fast wind rewind torque and also the playback torque not to be too loose cause will not wind up the tape and not too tight that causes wow and flutter.

Oh memories. I had 2 of these and they were the best sounding decks around. I upgraded to GX-F91 units and seriously regretted it. We live and learn. Thanks for sharing

@giles8373

3 жыл бұрын

For what it is worth on a rainy Sunday, luckily I have a good working one of these and its better than Nak CR3 and beautiful to use.

That bloody leaf blower lol !

Just a thought some of the WOW and flutter could be do to the belts sitting for so long I definitely noticed the counter belt the capstan belt looked to drive the entire mech. The idler tires could be causing some as well as the clutch ... I imagine it will smooth out a little bit as it is used

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Dual capstan. When the pinch rollers wear they cause uneven tension. Could be a "kink" in the belt where it looped around the mitor and sat for years but that will work out with operation. Just leaving it turned on will solve that. Seriously though do you think someone is actually going to use s deck this old for music? Something like this just ends up in someone's vintage setup on display. Like my reel to reel. I hadn't actually used it since I set it up. Just sits there looking cool.

@darinb.3273

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids you are absolutely right I totally forgot about the pinch rollers ... I think you are right about actual everyday use for music play too ... museum peice for sure LOL

@PeterMilanovski

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Hey! If I had it, I would definitely use it. Of course I would have to like how it sounds! I have more cassette decks than any person in their right mind would own but all of them need work except for a Yamaha machine which is in working condition, though I don't have a top load deck (yet) but I'm definitely interested in getting my hands on a few LoL. Not all cassette decks are created equal and I don't think that purchase price has anything to do with it, some decks have an amazing sound, so much so that if you didn't know what was playing, you would think that it's coming from CD! Then you have some decks that were born to record! Regardless of the cassettes condition! It could have been chewed previously but it could take that tape and give you a recording that you would never know that it's had a hard life! Then if you are lucky enough, you come across a deck that can do both, that's the holy grail! I have a lower end Denon deck with two heads but man can this thing record a tape! Even playback sounds good to! I would prefer to use it over the Yamaha machine even though it's a more expensive direct drive three head! But I have to fix the 5V rail, the regulator runs really hot! I have been suffering from anxiety for the last three years and doing the things that I love most in life just can't be done so for all the Electronics that I have (double garage cannot be entered and lounge room has also been invaded, more stuff in the bedroom and under the bed, don't ask how the wife puts up with it and me but she's an amazing woman! You know what they say, behind every great man stands an even greater woman!). Hopefully I will overcome this nasty condition and maybe even start up a KZread channel, I have plenty of stuff to keep me going for years lol, even the local used Hifi shop calls me from time to time looking for hard to find parts LoL. But if it wasn't for channels like yours or xray Tony B or Mr Carlson and so on I would have gone insane. Even though I'm only watching, I feel like I'm apart of the repair, looking to see if I can see something that you might have missed. It's a pity that it's not live streamed and you have someone to read out the comments and questions or suggestions while you work, could be both entertaining and interactive at the same time! You don't have to spend any time editing before uploading because we get whatever you give us, leaf blower inclusive LoL.

This was a excellent repair on a early model Akai , not everyone's. easy repair project.

Dave! we must do something about the leaf blower, lawnmower, and the gutter cleaning.

@jdmccorful

4 жыл бұрын

Think the neighbors are screwing with him.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

It was a worker. It is always workers. My neighbours are too lazy to mow their own lawn or clean their gutters. They pay someone else to do it. Guy next door paid 900 to have his gutters cleaned. (Guy came over and gave me a quote of 700) I'm too cheap, I do it myself. I did have to bring in an hvac tech to check my system out though. I might know a few things about it, but messing with refrigerant is not one of them.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

I just discovered the pitfall of having my days off during the week. (Tues - thurs are my days off at from my day job). These are the days that all the landscapers work in my ritzy neighborhood mowing lawns and raking all these millionaires homes. I am not joking. Try to find a house in my neighborhood for under a million bucks. There aren't any. Police chief, who lives only a couple of km from me was in the news because his wife insulted someone climbing on the rocks at their property line. Apparantly she turned the hose on the trespasser. They made a big deal about his 3.5 million mansion as if that is anyone's business.

nice deck built to last in some way? glad you did your own gutters missing the pussycat s on the workbench thou!

I found a Panasonic 612 in the dump, someone ripped out the rear connectors and tore the circuit board into several pieces and of course all the components on the breaks were damaged/destroyed. Took me around 9 hours to fix. Worth it? Nope. I can get 40 Euros on eBay at max. But damn it was a fun jigsolderinggun puzzle. Also it works well now.

@sebastianchibrac4877

4 жыл бұрын

Dont sell it! Keep it as a reward for the hard work!

Hello, I have a cs33 d model, and it works for like 3-4 sec and then stops..Do you know where it could come from? thank you

@12voltvids

2 жыл бұрын

Auto stop problem. Could be the counter belt. That is how most tape decks detect that the tape has stopped. Does the counter change for that 3 seconds it runs before it stops?

People tend to overrate these decks from the 70s, but the reality is they don't have a chance compared with the ones made in the late 80s and through 90s, no way! And tapes improved as well - with the video industry manufacturers finally had a visual way of comparing A with B, instead of the 'subjective' audiophoolery... I'm not surprised this thing can't get past 10kHz without distortion, also there's lot of wow and flutter but I guess that calls for a more thorough maintenance, not sure if it worth the time and money... Good luck with the neighbour ;-=

$700 to clean gutters wow! I used to charge people about $150. Depending on size of House Of course. I just figured out about how many hours was involved, what I needed to make an hour.

I have the same model, the left channel is louder and goes into “peak” on the vu meter. Any thoughts? It will also randomly make loud buzzing noise out of the left channel upon pressing play.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

Clean the record / play switch.

@mdrummond194

3 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids you’re not going to believe this, I discovered last night, when my cell phone is close to the unit, it’s signal messes with the tape deck, causing distortion in one channel terribly when really close... so strange

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

@@mdrummond194 Cell phone transmitter interferes with many electronics creating a loud buzz when they transmit.

Smashing repair/revamp dave :-D. "Sods law" Dictataes that any need for silence will create an inverse effect depending on the importance of the task or need to finish the job quickly lol. That's what i call a propper tape deck, all metal and a mains synked motor. I'm amazed that the meter lighting or actuall meter movement didn't fail from the original drop. I only remember phillips tape decks having the self destructing goo belts, maybe i just got all the phillips machines.

love you kity's.., lol. you must have nerves of steel. i sure couldn't do it...

Hi is the mechanism in this unit the same as gxc 325d. I know tne 325 is 3 head but is the mech itself the same. thank you

@12voltvids

2 жыл бұрын

I have no idea. Model numbers dont mean a thing to me.

Hello. I have a lg dvd-vhs combo vcr. The first 10-15 minutes show bad. Then it gets better. I tried many different cassettes same problem. I wonder what the problem might be. Sorry google translation

was it the broken traces that caused the right channel not to work or the switch?

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Switch

I have a GXC 710D that needs TLC. Wish you lived down the street. Never has been touched.

do synthetic or rubber belts last longer?

@sebastianchibrac4877

4 жыл бұрын

I think the synthetic ones are more likely to melt overtime

do you sometimes check out the microphone inputs too??

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

This deck sounds good - at least as far as youtube allows one to hear. I shouldn't have dismissed it. I guess I was quite partial to its looks. Somehow, I''m not keen on top loader cassette decks - or those that stand on their long side, somehow alluding to reel-to-reels. Having said that, I think it makes more sense to have the cassette loaded horizontally rather than vertically. Perhaps all cassette decks should have been designed to load like car casette decks. Any idea why this wasn't the case? Perhaps people like seeing the tape spools spinning , just like with reel to reels. I somehow, always found this annoying, however, watching a reel to reel spin does have something captivating to it.

JB Weld Original - the best readily available epoxy. This deck is dual capstan!, Xtall, hmm. It had to be something in 70's. I wonder how good of a speed stability (W&F) it has with AC motor comparing to regular DC motor. Interesting design for a cassette deck.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Synchronous motor will run at exactly the correct speed.

@mrnmrn1

4 жыл бұрын

​@@12voltvids Nowadays, yes. I don't know how was that in Canada and in the US, but until the late '80s here in middle Europe, line frequency was so inaccurate that electronics magazines were full of articles about how to make your digital alarm clock radio xtal referenced, because by counting the line frequency, you could easily get several minutes off *per day* . I don't know if the freq was just relatively constantly inaccurate, or it was all over the place. The latter would even produce excessive wow&flutter on tape decks like this, the former causes "just" inaccurate speed.

Ok Dave, another interesting video, but I have to ask if you know the song at 2:38?

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

It was from Triple Scoop Music (Royalty free but a limited royalty free license that will get hammered on youtube, only for private screening) Track called So Fine by Ethiks. Triple scoop distribute as a bundle with Coral video studio. It is a garbage license that says you can use it, but don't even think about monetizing your video, as they will do that for you and take your money. If I sound like I am shit slamming them, I am, because they like loungev changed the rules after releasing, catching anyone that had used their content thinking they were OK and then a few years later they come back and play hard ball.

@musicnerd72

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Eh... Screw that then. I won't support shady people.

Good

Very interesting machine,,,why does it have 2 Capstan flywheels? As if it,s auto reverse playback?

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Not auto reverse. One on each side if head. Supposed to regulate tension over head better. Snake oil.

@nickfrench7372

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Ok. Real interesting how 2 wheels regulate tape tension over heads better than one wheel.

Did you put the washers back on the capstans?

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

What do you think?

@KR1275

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids I think so...

I have a Akia CS-34D that needs servicing. Do you receive decks that need repair, if yes how would I send it to you?

@12voltvids

9 ай бұрын

Yes I repair equipment. Not everything can be repaired however as parts are almost impossible to find for this old equipment and when they are available those that have the parts want more for them then the unit is worth in many cases. Tascam deck i repaired a few months back needed a motor. Owner ended up spending more on the motor that I was paid and the shipping charges combined.

@i.rivera1012

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your response. I have a donor tape deck of the CS-43D, but the pinch roller are wasted. The thing I really need is the exact size measurements of the roller and where to order it from? Thanks

@12voltvids

9 ай бұрын

@@i.rivera1012 have no info on the size. You can send your pinch roller our to have ur redone but it is really expensive.

Lmao that leaf blower was getting on your nerves.

do you repair laserdisk player pioneer elite dld 91

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know much about laserdisk players as I only saw a couple of them come in for service so I would say no I am not interested. I limit myself these days mostly to vintage audio and VCR.

1976, same age as me

1976? Same vintage as myself

Super glue (not gel one) is perfect for broken PCBs

@jdmccorful

4 жыл бұрын

Good tip, I'll try it .

@technixbul

4 жыл бұрын

@@jdmccorful if you want fast bond you can heat it to 150C for a minute but smells awful, make sure you press the parts well before it sets, then you can solder around with no problems ;)

@PeterMilanovski

4 жыл бұрын

Super glue has been found by the automotive industry to turn conductive over time, it was used in the speedometer until they realised that the speedometer was failing to to the super glue shorting out the PCB... Not all glues are created equal! Likewise, some grease will react with plastic so using just any grease to lubricate the plastic gears in a cassette deck mechanism is automatically asking for trouble! Another one that I have heard but I'm not sure about is that using isopropyl alcohol on the rubber pinch rollers or the belts dries them out and they deteriorate faster but again I don't really know the truth in that one! But the first two are definitely true!

@technixbul

4 жыл бұрын

@@PeterMilanovski i don't know what super glue you use but i buy the cheapest one and it never become conductive neither the baking soda ... it is based on acrylic base, so what part of it is conductive - i don't know ... ;)

@PeterMilanovski

4 жыл бұрын

@@technixbul I was told about it by a person who worked for a company called VDO that manufactured speedometers for Ford Australia but it many years ago and since I can't find anything about it on the internet I will say that it's second hand information, it was one of those moments when you are having a general discussion about work when he said to me, hey! Did you know that super glue turns conductive after a few years? And I replied no I didn't, who would have thought about that? The company made instruments for the new car industry and also made after market gauges, their products are first class but not cheap! it's not conductive when you first use it but as VDO found out through research and development that years later probably due to heat or humidity or other possible conditions in a vehicle, the super glue that was being used on the speedometer would turn conductive and create short circuits. I personally have never seen this but subconsciously have always kept super glue away from electronic equipment. I don't think that it causes fire but it probably would burn if an electronic component failed and began to glow red hot, again I'm not sure, the person who told me had nothing to loose or gain by what he told me, he was actually proud of the company that he worked for and he was just telling me about something that he was sure that I didn't know and that his company worked it out and stopped using super glue. They started using something else which he wasn't able to tell me about but I never really made anything of it, the information I was given really wasn't useful to me at that time but I remembered it and kept super glue and electronics seperated! It would be interesting to use some super glue to test out if this is actually true! Just a line of the glue on an insulator and leave it in a window and test it's resistance every so often to see if it ended up conductive... I personally would always recommend that if you can find a better way of doing something then it should be done, I have a hot melt glue gun which is brand new and still in it's original box but I purchased it 10 year's ago! Since I only deal with electronics, I try to find better ways to fix something in place, it's easy to hot glue a few wires in place but a cable tie looks much nicer. I might use the hot melt glue gun one day, it's here if I need it but when I open up a Bluetooth Speaker and see the battery held in place with hot melt glue! Yeah you know that the product was built to last LoL. I think that I'm going to test out the super glue for my self, I have always mentioned it whenever glue and electronics conversation took place but I think that it's time I checked it out... This should be interesting.

44:48 no you're not, even though I'm only 15, I've never been able to hear above ~9KHz, and I've had 5 sets of ear tubes. At least that means I'll never be annoyed by CRTs!

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Well at least you don't get annoyed by tinnitus whistling away at at about 16khz. Try having that and have a crt running. Every time you turn your head you head the doppler effect the tone changes.

@ovalwingnut

4 жыл бұрын

Thought that was just me? 🙄 Misery loves company my friend, move over. 🔊I SAID MOVE OVER) 😒 I can see our vision (pun intended) going bad as we age. God doesn't want us to see what he's going to do to our bodies 😨 But Tinnitus is just plain mean 😩

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

@@ovalwingnut Don't even notice it these days.

@joshm264

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids I still hear tinnitus, but oddly enough at lower frequencies

47:37 Name of tune? Thanks in advance.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Blues band by musicbakery.com

Akai = my favorite brand, 0db at 10khz isnt possible on any machine without severe distortion, not even a nak dragon can manage it - however db means nothing its a ratio (difference) not a volume level best deck i ever owned managed -5db (philips scale) before distortion

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

My DAT recorder can. Right up to 22khz. Oh wait a minute, analog is better right?

@Synthematix

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids lol yup, analog is so much better, the surface noise, the gradual degradation of the media, the speed drifting and the recording level fluctuations haha, but what about the wow and flutter, the harmonic distortion and the fact that no analog media can run at an accurate speed? surely analog is waaaay better. DAT and minidisc are my 2 favourite digital formats

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

I just laugh at the prices people pay for this old tech. Wish I had that kind of money to throw around. Mine gets eaten up by practical things like cars.

@Synthematix

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids SNAP! audiophiles reckon tape is amazing? more like audio idiots, they even buy "special power cables" at £100 a time, oh man you gotta laugh theyre so damn stupid.

@PeterMilanovski

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids oh but that's cheating LoL, let's throw in a DCC machine in for good measure! I've never had one but I hear that they are pretty good performer's on both analogue and digital recording and playback! Actually I think that they cannot record in analogue but don't quote me... Phillips did a pretty good job on producing a digital recorder that was backwards compatible! A real pity that it didn't take of.

Many of these early tape deck were built like tanks, with metal chassis and features inherited from open tape decks like quality motors and huge fly wheels. Akai GX series generally used their famous glass heads, and we're generally considered amongst the best in their categories. Many say, it's an Akaï, blah blah, and don't ask why a GX 95 is still a very sought after model. When you see how they made this 1976, and the fact that it 's still working perfectly according to the original specs... Of course these early models did not have type C Dolby, but few had any. And what is particularly good is the dual capstan mechanism. Of course no three heads for monitoring use and no bias fine adjust, but these features were only found on professional or far more expensive decks like Alpage, Nakamichi and Revox.

where is a good place to buy rubber belts that don't stretch after a few years?

مرحبا هل من الممكن أن حصل على مثل هذا الجهاز أكاي ٣١٠

Sony 3 Head TC-K81 It a high end sony deck

14khz, my ears! 🙉

All Akai GXC cassette decks use glass ferrite heads. Those can last longer than the deck itself. Pity you can't transfer the heads to other brand cassette deck. Damn that leaf blower sound is infuriating.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

The only thing glass heads have going for them is longevity. Performance wise they are on par with ferrite heads. After all that is what they are, a ferrite head set in glass.

@izwanshaari9854

3 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids yeah that's true. But nowadays it's hard to get good quality heads. All that's available are generics so the longevity is a huge plus.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

@@izwanshaari9854 Never have had good heads fail. Who uses tape these days anyway. The sound is garbage. Tape decks good for 1 thing. To copy the tape to digital and the toss the tape.

There is no greater monument to mankind's arrogance and absurd logic than a leaf blower.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Especially the 2 stroke varieties.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

There are times I would like to shove the thing up their a55 and turn it on. Most annoying thing ever, next to a chain saw and wood chipper.

Those old machines look built like a tank. Too bad the performance isn't there, no BIAS or level adjust to tune different tape brands.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Cassettes are crap. Always have been. Only good to listen to in a noisy old mustang with a busted muffler.

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900 to clean gutters his he on drugs 90 would have been more like it, does your neighbor live in 50 bedroom stately home lol

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

The guy dropped his card 700 is my quote. If he had handed me the card and it said 700 I would have said 7.00 right? 100 might be reasonable but not a penny more.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Drugs, that's probably why he charges that much , so he can buy drugs.

@leeboleebo6228

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids PS keep up the great informative work love your bids cos you explain while you fix, watch one vid of someone once doesn't say anything he just points even to the screw's to take the back off Well yeah I didn't you was going to repair it through the vent holes, that's why I like yours so much