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Re: [ARSCLIST] Use care with new-to-you tape machines
lol, 2 funny! Great advise Richard - send it off to the dealer and get them to
fix it! I had to do the with the Nakamichi - second use - they told me the
heads were dirty...........even though I cleaned them after each tape played!
Maybe they wanted the money or made it up! Who knows! Oh yes, what do people
say to me........Welcome to America!
Cheers
Marie
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Quoting David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Anyone remember the tape-eating monster on "The Missing Watergate Tapes"?
> National Lampoon LP.
>
> dl
>
> "Richard L. Hess" wrote:
>
> > I am hearing more and more stories about (and fixing some of the
> > tapes from) tape machines chewing original master tapes.
> >
> > I've had a rash of micro-cassettes recently. Prior to that there were
> > some DA-88 tapes and some standard cassette tapes.
> >
> > Often, it seems people will acquire a new machine and then not use an
> > old tape to test it first. This is a great risk with machines from
> > eBay, but, as we heard from Brandon at Stanford, it can happen right
> > out of the box. Now Brandon's could have been a tape defect and the
> > machine could have played a test tape fine, we don't know, but
> > PLEASE, EVERYONE: when you get a new machine, try out a scratch tape
> > or two first before using it with a good tape. I do that. Everyone
> > should. I don't want that kind of work.
> >
> > Funny story (sort of). The guy who had the DA-88 eat a tape was a
> > previous client. Since he was a good previous client, I bought an
> > eBay DA-38 to transfer his tape after I repaired it. The eBay machine
> > was supposedly only used 75 hours. I got it, put an old tape in it.
> > Chewed. I found the local Tascam-recommended repair shop and they
> > fixed it up fine for me.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > Richard L. Hess email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX
> > Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
> > Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.
>