b wrote:
Mark D. Zacharias wrote:
Malissa Baldwin wrote:
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and a Tandberg open reel with lube problems. Anyone who knows
Tandberg at all should expect them to be maintenance intensive
anyway, so I wasn't too upset. Mark Z.

In the later, solenoid operated Tandbergs I've seen , the pinch roller
mech always has hard grease on and needs stripping and relubing or the
unit won't rewind; I've also seen 'em suffer from spasmodic logic due
to the 33v rectifier, and the odd BC147 transistor. As for the older
mechs like the series 14, 15 etc, they seem to rarely give any
problems . Real workhorses. I wouldn't say Tandbergs were maintainance
intensive at all. At least no more or less compared to other r2r makes
I've used or worked on....Ben

My experience with Tandberg starts with the 3000X. Brakes crumbled, belt
sagged, regulator transistor opened up, lamps died, motor overheated from
bad lubrication, power switch went bad, I forget if there was any other
problems. I've fixed it more times than I can count.

Had a 9200XD. Bad frequency response on one channel (since new), Dolby relay
would go off by itself, record inhibit IC went tits up, then after I got it
all running again, it got stolen.

Had my brother's old 3300X for a while. Replace the bad euro capacitors
since they were failing (getting hot, bad sound, etc) and cleaned the
connectors, replaced the belt. As soon as power was applied one of the BC
transistors failed immediately, pegging the meter.

Had another 9200 XD, had the usual tarnished connectors, lamps out, and bad
lube.

I have a 10XD which I haven't even had the heart to get into.

Mark Z.