I'm looking for either a working quarter track stereo hi fi deck or somone
to fix my old tandberg as I want to run through some tapes and see if they
have anything worth keeping on them.


any ideas? I've been searching, plentey of people in the US doing it at
high cost, but nobody here who looks reputable, ie is not just an unkown on
ebay.

Brian

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[top posting for you Brian]

There's a guy on sci.electronics.repair who has posted there for many
years. He seems to repair mainly older and vintage stuff and has come
up with some clever fixes for kit where parts are no longer available.

He posts as N_Cook, email diverse AT tcp DOT co DOT uk

Has a website at http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/

Site is mainly text, so should be OK for you

Might be worth dropping him a line.

Mike

En el artículo , Brian Gaff
escribió:
I'm looking for either a working quarter track stereo hi fi deck or somone
to fix my old tandberg as I want to run through some tapes and see if they
have anything worth keeping on them.


any ideas? I've been searching, plentey of people in the US doing it at
high cost, but nobody here who looks reputable, ie is not just an unkown on
ebay.

Brian


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Thanks, I'll have a look on that one.
Brian

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"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
...

[top posting for you Brian]

There's a guy on sci.electronics.repair who has posted there for many
years. He seems to repair mainly older and vintage stuff and has come
up with some clever fixes for kit where parts are no longer available.

He posts as N_Cook, email diverse AT tcp DOT co DOT uk

Has a website at http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/

Site is mainly text, so should be OK for you

Might be worth dropping him a line.

Mike

En el artículo , Brian Gaff
escribió:
I'm looking for either a working quarter track stereo hi fi deck or somone
to fix my old tandberg as I want to run through some tapes and see if
they
have anything worth keeping on them.


any ideas? I've been searching, plentey of people in the US doing it at
high cost, but nobody here who looks reputable, ie is not just an unkown
on
ebay.

Brian


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(='.'=)
(")_(")

On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:50:57 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

I'm looking for either a working quarter track stereo hi fi deck

Well I have a Teac in the loft but whether it is working or not I don't
know.

... or someone to fix my old tandberg ...

Giving us a clue as to what is wrong with it might help.

... as I want to run through some tapes and see if they have anything
worth keeping on them.

That's why I still have my Teac, one day I'll get the tuit. Difference is
I know I have stuff I want to keep.

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Cheers
Dave.

In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:50:57 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

I'm looking for either a working quarter track stereo hi fi deck

Well I have a Teac in the loft but whether it is working or not I don't
know.

... or someone to fix my old tandberg ...

Giving us a clue as to what is wrong with it might help.

... as I want to run through some tapes and see if they have anything
worth keeping on them.

That's why I still have my Teac, one day I'll get the tuit. Difference
is I know I have stuff I want to keep.

I have a working 1/4tk machine. And half track too. Speeds from 1 7/8 ths
to 15 ips.

Last time I did some transfers to CD as a favour, I was told the results
were very poor. Whereas it was the original tapes which were very poor -
the transfer was excellent. ;-)

Sadly, what was once sort of acceptable as an amateur recording many
years ago doesn't stand up well today - when kids can produce a perfectly
reasonable 'hi-fi' sound on their bedroom computer.

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To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:50:57 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

I'm looking for either a working quarter track stereo hi fi deck

Well I have a Teac in the loft but whether it is working or not I don't
know.

... or someone to fix my old tandberg ...

Giving us a clue as to what is wrong with it might help.

... as I want to run through some tapes and see if they have anything
worth keeping on them.

That's why I still have my Teac, one day I'll get the tuit. Difference
is I know I have stuff I want to keep.

I have a working 1/4tk machine. And half track too. Speeds from 1 7/8 ths
to 15 ips.

Last time I did some transfers to CD as a favour, I was told the results
were very poor. Whereas it was the original tapes which were very poor -
the transfer was excellent. ;-)


Sadly, what was once sort of acceptable as an amateur recording many
years ago doesn't stand up well today - when kids can produce a perfectly
reasonable 'hi-fi' sound on their bedroom computer.


I've still got some tapes of an old steam driven fairground organ
recorded in the open air and some other stuff from many years ago and
when replayed everyone who has heard them is impressed at just how good
it does sound unlike what people are becoming used to, i.e. low bit
rates, too much audio processing tiny small headphones and the
like!,.....


As to Brian's original question yes some of this can be done but often
on consumer grade stuff its the problem of getting such as drive belts
and some other specialised parts like pinch rollers that can be
problematic.

You if you can't DIY need to find someone who is a recorder enthusiast
as commercially most all of the time its a non starter these days....


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Tony Sayer

In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
Sadly, what was once sort of acceptable as an amateur recording many
years ago doesn't stand up well today - when kids can produce a
perfectly reasonable 'hi-fi' sound on their bedroom computer.


I've still got some tapes of an old steam driven fairground organ
recorded in the open air and some other stuff from many years ago and
when replayed everyone who has heard them is impressed at just how good
it does sound unlike what people are becoming used to, i.e. low bit
rates, too much audio processing tiny small headphones and the
like!,.....

Oh I know 1/4" tape could give excellent results. Sadly, too many worried
about the cost of tape so used slow speeds - and 1/4 track. And didn't
have much of an idea about how to use a microphone - which in any case was
often poor in itself.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
Sadly, what was once sort of acceptable as an amateur recording many
years ago doesn't stand up well today - when kids can produce a
perfectly reasonable 'hi-fi' sound on their bedroom computer.


I've still got some tapes of an old steam driven fairground organ
recorded in the open air and some other stuff from many years ago and
when replayed everyone who has heard them is impressed at just how good
it does sound unlike what people are becoming used to, i.e. low bit
rates, too much audio processing tiny small headphones and the
like!,.....

Oh I know 1/4" tape could give excellent results. Sadly, too many worried
about the cost of tape so used slow speeds - and 1/4 track. And didn't
have much of an idea about how to use a microphone - which in any case was
often poor in itself.


High speed REVOX full track what else, and IIRC a couple of Neumann's or
AKG Capacitors in a simple crossed pair...
--
Tony Sayer

On Saturday, April 27, 2013 3:02:13 PM UTC+1, tony sayer wrote:
In article , Dave Plowman (News)
scribeth thus
In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:50:57 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

I'm looking for either a working quarter track stereo hi fi deck

Well I have a Teac in the loft but whether it is working or not I don't
know.

... or someone to fix my old tandberg ...

Giving us a clue as to what is wrong with it might help.

... as I want to run through some tapes and see if they have anything
worth keeping on them.

That's why I still have my Teac, one day I'll get the tuit. Difference
is I know I have stuff I want to keep.

I have a working 1/4tk machine. And half track too. Speeds from 1 7/8 ths
to 15 ips.

Last time I did some transfers to CD as a favour, I was told the results
were very poor. Whereas it was the original tapes which were very poor -
the transfer was excellent. ;-)

Sadly, what was once sort of acceptable as an amateur recording many
years ago doesn't stand up well today - when kids can produce a perfectly
reasonable 'hi-fi' sound on their bedroom computer.

I've still got some tapes of an old steam driven fairground organ
recorded in the open air and some other stuff from many years ago and
when replayed everyone who has heard them is impressed at just how good
it does sound unlike what people are becoming used to, i.e. low bit
rates, too much audio processing tiny small headphones and the
like!,.....
As to Brian's original question yes some of this can be done but often
on consumer grade stuff its the problem of getting such as drive belts
and some other specialised parts like pinch rollers that can be
problematic.
You if you can't DIY need to find someone who is a recorder enthusiast
as commercially most all of the time its a non starter these days....


Have drive belt suppliers really dried up? With cassette decks, if all else fails one can always use stationery rubber bands. Not good practice, but in most cases they last years (some don't).

If a pinch roller is just evenly worn rather than damaged, shimming whatever determines its position can often get it to engage reliably. One way to shim is to tie iron wire on, various diameters are available, and its easily cut off in future. If shimming with epoxy, include some bits of metal, eg a wire clipping, to make it wear better.


NT

On Saturday, 27 April 2013 08:50:57 UTC+1, Brian Gaff wrote:
I'm looking for either a working quarter track stereo hi fi deck or somone

to fix my old tandberg as I want to run through some tapes and see if they

have anything worth keeping on them.





any ideas? I've been searching, plentey of people in the US doing it at

high cost, but nobody here who looks reputable, ie is not just an unkown on

ebay.



Brian



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You could ask a local charity shop to contact you if they get offered one, which doubtless they would normally redirect to the tip. One charity shop, Red Cross IIRC, is actively requesting electronic stuff. Or some council tips themselves set saleable things aside. Explaining exactly what you want may be the difficult bit.

I have some tapes myself which just may contain recordings of my late parents/grandparents that I'd like to check out one day.

Somewhere in the loft I have a magnetic disk recorder (dictaphone), and some disks of correspondence between a grocery distributor and local shops that I must play with sometime.

Chris

On Saturday, 27 April 2013 08:50:57 UTC+1, Brian Gaff wrote:
I'm looking for either a working quarter track stereo hi fi deck or somone
to fix my old tandberg as I want to run through some tapes and see if they
have anything worth keeping on them.

You can still get parts for some of them. Here's someone selling spare belts for the Tandberg 3321x (which I have).

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tandberg-3...-/130447941999

Robert