Thanx for all your help .I bought a three head denon deck this year for 30 bux .It needed new belts and some deoxit on controls for cleaning, now tape deck sounds better than I could ever hope for Thanx very much for your help , cheers

I love watching your videos! Very impressive and good content and great teaching !

I have a bunch of those TDK MA110 tapes. They came out in the early 1990s and were the perfect thing for recording hour-long radio shows without interruption (in the Netherlands, most radio stations had hourly news and commercials for about 5 minutes). The tapes sound really good and are surprisingly resistant against the press-through effects of older 120 minute tapes, probably because of the Metal type coating. Also, the tape is stronger than 120 minute tapes; I never had any tape breakage in a TDK MA110 tape.

Very good, sharp labour..Congrulations..

Yep the brown sticky nicoteen is horrible, when your hands stick to the case of a smokers tapedeck, you know it's not going to be nice. I've been there quite a few times :-(. For the case cleanng i use a bowl of hot water and washing up liquid, gets the crap off and makes it smell nicer too :-D.

More of these please!

Thanks a lot! Great video. Very informative!

This is another reason why I do not smoke, the first being a risk of lung cancer. Guys, don't smoke! It will ruin or *kill* your valuable electronics.

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

Know too many people that died of lung cancer. Many of my friends lost a parent due to smoking. Our stupid government is legalizing cannabis next month and I am sure tons of people will light up. A few years from now doctors will discover tons of new cancer cases and then the link will be made. Will be too late for all those smoking it.

@THOMMGB

5 жыл бұрын

Dave, You are exactly right. While you may get lung cancer from smoking, you definitely will decrease your lung capacity and have lots of problems later on in life that are associated with decreased lung capacity.

@Synthematix

5 жыл бұрын

@@THOMMGB Hmm, cars are the biggest problem

I remember having a high end dual tape deck, 3-motors and all the bells and whistles, I cleaned mine at least twice a year and calibrated, and aligned the heads.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

The thing with heads is they typically don't need adjusting unless replaced or someone has broken the paint seal put on at the factory.

Tetraflouroethane is R134A (found in auto A/C systems and refrigerators) and is what is in many compressed air duster cans. That's the reason why in the US you need ID to purchase them because kids would huff the stuff. I always found it funny that you can't vent R134 when doing A/C work (it must be reclaimed) per EPA regulations but that you can go to the office supply store and purchase it in an air duster can and vent it to the atmosphere to your hearts content. So at least in the US the propellant R134A would be allowed so there must be another banned ingredient that forced them to change the formation.

I've come across many decks full of "juicy cigarette glaze" before and taken more time cleaning the sticky gunky crap up than actually finding out what was wrong with the units themselves (which in some cases was just belts, rollers and broken gears - though one had a cracked main-board due to being dropped by a clumsy owner which took over half a day to repair). Nicotine - the number one carcinogenic killer of electronics.

5:03 literally empty box😮😮 Tipical '90s...

You tried to hide it well, but I got a glimpse of the middle of the cassette and seeing the grids in the middle and rough layout... already knew it was going to be an MA of some sort haha

Vc é muito bom no que faz, obrigado pelos vídeos!!!!

Try breaking the glaze on the pinch rollers with 400 grit sandpaper and then apply the rubber renew. If the glaze remains in place it can prevent the rubber renew from getting into the roller. I recently did that on two decks (Sharp RT 12 and Yamaha KX 250) and had success with both of them. On older decks it may sometimes be necessary to remove the tension spring for the roller and give it a little tweak to restore tension.

i loved those TDK metal tapes! I bought a big box of them back in the day to record my bands music, metal of course. lol Usually only recorded on them one time, but a few metal tapes i used over and over for years in my 4 track recorder . i never had any stretching issues like standard 90 or 120min tapes. i still have most of my tapes from the 80-90s and they all work good. I have some tapes though of commercial bands i bought where the tapes stretched so much it made them play longer/slower. you could barely notice it but the tempo was off and comparing it to a new tape it sounded way off! Now days my friends or myself use digital to record band music, but it just doesnt sound as good as tape IMO. digital looses a lot of the warm tones and just doesnt sounds as good no matter how you mix it.

Very informational and easy to follow! Thanks for the education and keep it going. BTW what do you recommend for hooking up a Walkman tape player to my 2006 Nissan, Altima sound system? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

This is why I never let my deck around smokers or fumes. Gotta take good care of your deck.

Very good

You mean that Technics 676 from a previous video?

their tape heads are similar to my sony vcd tape decks on tape side B but can you help me out to repair the other side of it on tape deck side A because the tape head of it their brown flex with 5 pin connector has been broke or maybe damaged can i used other thin wires with cover to wiring them thank you.

I use plastic gloves when using cleaners really help keep the smell off your hands

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

So do I when using anything stronger than alcohol.

Lol. I thought you have a type III Ferrochrome tape. ;-)

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

I have many type 3 ferichrome tapes including a couple of sealed never opened boxes.

Just wondering if you have any cobalt cassette tapes ?

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty much all the type 2 tapes with the exception of basf are cobalt. Basf and some early memorex were chromium dioxide as was the chrome layer on the Sony type 3 ferichrome tapes. Those are still the tapes that are my favorite. They have the best I'd both worlds. Iron oxide on the bottom layer as bass penetrates the tape deeply and chrome on top for good highs. Next to metal tape they are without question the best tapes for music but most people dont know much about them because only a few companies made them and very few stores carried them.

@floydtafalla2272

5 жыл бұрын

their tape heads are similar to my sony vcd tape decks on tape side B but can you help me out to repair the other side of it on tape deck side A because the tape head of it their brown flex with 5 pin connector has been broke or maybe damaged can i used other thin wires with cover to wiring them thank you.

that is my problem and also the CD Mechanism of my Sony VCD they cannot read a disc inside i see that the cd does not spin why? But i resolve one problem to their tray to open and close when inserting some cds i just replace a belt to motor., and then their tuner it does not stop when searching for fm station on radio mode. and also my vcd model is sony mhc vx 55 with 2 active super woofer it sounds good and excellent so beautiful but it stops fuctioning some buttons on it and their cd can you help me out please thanks a lot.

Bloody hell, always these smokers... And theny they wonder why everything doesn't work anymore, let alone their lungs...

Isn't there no lack of mod space inside the deck huh? Hahaha!

What can be done if the belt for cassette deck are not available

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

Most belts are. You just need to measure and get a generic.

Bring back chrome & metal tapes , back in the shops . Has 12 volt won that DEOCSIT computation yet ?

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

Im not in the contest this year.

@shaun9107

5 жыл бұрын

But we voted your video ?

@THEtechknight

5 жыл бұрын

yea we did. But I think it got pulled for some reason, or he baled out.

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

@@THEtechknight One word. Trolls

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

Notice that I used a different product to clean.

next time, You should clean the heads and the capstan before you put the mech back in the deck... it's way better.

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

Lol I thought of that AFTER I put the deck back in.

@joviherrera

5 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids don't worry, it happen to me every time! saludos desde Sinaloa, México!

Avoid spray! any mechanism.

I forgot to mention there’s an error code that displays when that hd-dvd stops.

Maybe the Nicotine increases the grip. LOL

Has someone used speaker cable as mains cable? if so damn thats bad lol

@catsbyondrepair

5 жыл бұрын

Speaker wire is just lamp cord it is fine as long as you don't wire a heater with it.

@Synthematix

5 жыл бұрын

I know but mains cable in the UK has to be double insulated by law

@catsbyondrepair

5 жыл бұрын

@@Synthematix yeah well the uk is kind of backwards when it comes to electricity after all electricity was invented in the USA.

@Synthematix

5 жыл бұрын

Haha i cant believe that comment, haha haha, no one invented electricity you muppet.

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

What?

This is an unrelated question but I have a hd-dvd player that stops halfway on all my disks even regular dvd. I don't know your e-mail address. You know your stuff!

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

Could be the optical pickup is sticking, or it could be a spindle motor issue.

I never cared much about metal tapes Chrome tapes I did like... I only got 60 minutes or 90 minutes tapes

@12voltvids

11 ай бұрын

FeCr (ferrichrome) were the best sounding tapes i ever used.

3 motor silent mech lol

80's me : don't like the deck... that VU-meter is not cool .... moves on to the next deck Technics ... yeah.

@victorcoss2600

5 жыл бұрын

80's me wouldn't like a mid-90s deck either. JVC made a lot of decks with sexy red/orange VU meters. They are actually pretty known for their fancy/pretty lights. Their achilles-heel however is the diodes they used to run said bulbs in series and cause problems later down the road. :)

@Luke-san

5 жыл бұрын

I know, my sister has an, I believe, 1984 JVC with a spectrum analyzer on it. Up till this day I would like to have that deck. Technics had those nice display vu-meters from their low budget models. I still have some nice stuff up in the attic.

@MsCori76

5 жыл бұрын

Luc Peeters - I’ve always preferred Technics & Panasonic.

I don't think I would have wasted time on that one - Junk Very Cheap were never great decks in my opinion, and that one is a right el-cheapo job.

@victorcoss2600

5 жыл бұрын

That's because it's from the mid-90s. JVC's quality was on the down by then.. they made some very good decks in the 80s. They're so underrated, but it's understandable cuz they did put out a lot of cheaper units later on, but people overlook some really high-end units that they did put out. As far as cassette decks I have the JVC KD-A7 and JVC TD-V66 myself and wouldn't consider those "cheapo" units. These aren't even their high end offerings, but very respected decks. They also had their DIGIFINE series and Dynamic Super-A amps. You can have a look and tell me that's your typical china cheapo junk, right? lcweb2.loc.gov/master/mbrs/recording_preservation/manuals/JVC%20Super%20Digifine%20Hi-Fi%20Components.pdf The 80s they made good units, and some high-end offerings even. In their early 90s is when they started slopping, units looked cheaper but there were SOME units that performed good and were reliable. Mid-90s on I wouldn't touch... everything is junk from then on. I got a lot of beef about my 1990 JVC RX-R76, but it's a great unit and sounds excellent when fed from a good DAC. I've had mid 90s, say 1995 JVC, Kenwood, Sony, etc. receivers and they are all junk in comparison. And the modern receivers nowdays are a complete joke and don't work after a year or two. You have to pay a few grand nowadays just to get any quality, yet my JVC sings on a few more decades. :)

@fulwell1

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not saying that every single product that JVC made was junk, but the majority of stuff that I came into contact with (90's) was pretty rubbish. I agree that the same can be said from other manufacturers too - Kenwood had pretty much given up by then, and Sony were a real mixed bag with their QS and ES ranges being very good indeed, and the rest of their stuff being pretty rotten. And yes, you do have to pay a fair wedge now to get anything decent - my Yamaha RX-A2050 cost a good number of beer tokens, not least as I bought it soon after its launch. It is so sad that the likes of JVC chose to down-sell themselves in their attempts purely to chase volume of sales, and they are not alone. Pioneer are another one who seem to have an almost dual-personality to their range. I suppose it is just the way of things with modern electronics - everyone wanted more and more features for less and less money, and then products were designed to fail and be replaced in a very short space of time; part of the reason I left the trade around 20 years ago

@victorcoss2600

5 жыл бұрын

But people PRAISE the Pioneer brand, but JVC, oh no, so underrated, junk they say. That's what pisses me off, people with praise these other brands and sometimes shit I see that's junk compared to a JVC counterpart. Mention JVC and they hate on you. I have a Pioneer receiver, it's a piece of shit imo. People overlook JVC was a premium Japanese brand back in the 80s. When you say JVC people think of car stereos, camcorders, and all-in-one bookshelf stereos. They don't think of their high-end equipment of the day that they did have. 80s they were good, and I would say some of the very very early 90s stuff too. They also had their "GM Circuit" suite for their amplifiers such as GM Driver, GM Volume, GM Selector, all stuff they did to improve SNR, lower noise floor, etc. basically premium features on their high-end amps. Stuff to improve how the transistors functioned too but utilizing what transistors do best. Stuff like improving the quality of the power and lowering impedance, etc. It's funny cuz my 1990 JVC RX-R76 has one of the GM Suite features, meaning it wasn't one of JVC's lower end offerings or "budget" receivers. It has the GM Driver and direct-power supply. More info on their GM circuits here, kinda interesting to me.. pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/tech_desc.jsp?model_id=MDL100386&feature_id=02 But my "cheapo piece of shit" amp as many claim sport some features JVC implemented in their high-end equipment.

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

@@victorcoss2600 Jvc had some pretty good components, and their svhs vcrs were considered to be some of the best ones made. I have a couple of jvc svhs that work great. Even though they have a fair bit of plastic they have been great and the old boat anchor VHS decks from the early 80s were bulletproof.

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

I'll put it up on craigslist for 50 bucks and someone will buy it.

End of the line 90s cheap stuff... suitable for beginners or people who only have type 1 tapes and dont take tapes seriously. Worth maybe 10 bucks or so. I got some 90s tape decks in the last few months and sold all of them on ebay because they have absolutely no value for me. I like my JVC TDR621. Good quality 80s stuff with a lot more functions than the newer models. In my opinion 2 head decks are only acceptable for playback.

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

2 head decks can make very good recordings. The same as 3 head decks because the head is basically the same. Optimized for recording. It is the separate playback head with the much narrower gap that is set up specifically for playback that makes the difference.

@macdaniel6029

5 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids I know that they can, but its a huge pain to figure out the perfect settings. Record, rewind, playback, change setting, rewind, record, playback, change setting, rewind.... Or just press rec and hope for the best. I dont like them.

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

@@macdaniel6029 yes but once you get a brand of tape dialed in, just mark the control and then it is easy to reset. Most people never bother tweaking the bias anyway.

First!

@matthewbestdfghy

5 жыл бұрын

Now one cares.

@Synthematix

5 жыл бұрын

You cared enough to comment

@12voltvids

5 жыл бұрын

@@Synthematix Children

I had a JVC DD55, DD66, DD99 (cassette decks of the period Circa 1980s. These were note Cheap decks and alof them just sounded dull, no high end frequencies, I returned them to JVC them selves and they kept saying it was fine, noting wrong. It went back to them 12 time in one years. I then just so knarcked off with them I threw in the bin as they had stalled for time eating up into the 12month warranty period. JV are a complete farcial company. I will not buy JVC ever again! I bought a Aiwa ADF260 and it was simply stunning! At a 1/3 of the price!