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Topic: Help! My reel to reel died!
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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler
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From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999
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posted 12-27-2000 08:52 AM
My reel to reel is a Pioneer RT1020L.I will gladly pay for a copy of the manual. Ken? Ken Layton? YOU, oh master guru, are the famous KING of the manuals! Please? HELP! There are 2 of us in need! Reel to reel RULES!!
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Ken Layton
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1452
From: Olympia, Wash. USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 01-01-2001 11:18 PM
I don't have a manual, but I know someone who does. Contact my friend Frank Burnham here in Olympia. He lives across town from me out in the sticks.Here's his address:
Frank Burnham
6931 Whitaker
Olympia, Wash. 98502
(360) 866-0055 He doesn't always get to the phone, so sometimes it's better to write to him. He's got TONS of consumer equipment service manuals.
And mention I sent you.
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 04-13-2002 04:32 AM
Bringing this back to life. Josh sent me this deck to repair for him. So far, I have found a defective micro-switch, and I also found what I think is a fusing resistor burned out on the control logic board. There is another like it on the same board, and it measures about 2 ohms or so, but the other is open. So far, I at least got the machine to rewind, but the play circuit does not engage the take-up motor or the capstan. Ken, I will call that gent you referenced, and hopefully, he might be able to at least identify the part. I really don't want to stuff something in that circuit that may cause more damage. Does he have an email address? Anyone else have a deck like this? As Josh said, it is an Akai Model No. 280DSS. It really is a spiffy machine, and is well worth saving for him.
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Bernard Tonks
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 619
From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 04-13-2002 07:39 AM
I have the Akai stereo tape deck model 4000DS with the service manual, lovely machine and very reliable when I used it in the cinema until I purchased two Revox A77 Mk 4 full track stereo @ 15 ips.Visit the Akai website: www.akai.com Information for purchase and after sales service. U.S.A. & Mexico: E&S International Enterprises, Inc.
7849 Canoga Avenue, Canoga Park, CA 91303 U.S.A.
Tel. 1-818-887-0700 Fax. 1-818-702-2202 Might be worth a try for a copy of the manual.
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Jerry Chase
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1068
From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 04-13-2002 12:46 PM
In addition to contact Akai or the person Ken suggested, you could try
Marty Gasman mgasman@tiac.netA comment from one website:
"Curiously,the matter of Akai cold solder on the 280DSS/GX280DSS has been brought up. I've known at least 10 people with these machines,and
the problem manifests itself a little differently in each one. Mine lost its "stop" mode,never to be recovered(currently a door stop in my barn, another guy had his go into reverse during 4 channel playback, another would play exactly half the tape, then rewind automatically, and ad nauseum. Akai's remedy was the GX270DSS, completely redesigned from the 280. From newsgroups:
"The 280DSS and similar models, like the 285D, are notorious for bad feedthrough connections on the relay board (system control). Pull the board, resolder them all carefully, and you should be OK." "Oh by the way, those chips that are used in the
record and play amplifiers on t6he Akais, they are scarce as chicken
teeth. They use them in the CR80DSS and the 1730DSS also. I imagine
they use them in any other akai gear of the same vintage, stereo or
quad. If I'm not mistaken, the 280DSS and the 1730DSS use the same
record and play boards. those same boards were used in the stereo
versions as well. there was just one of each. " That is about all of the searchable info you'll find on the net.
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I only ever got as far as the 2+2 models. Wish I still had that too, I seem to be developing a love for sound gear of a certain aged, having just repaired a Dynacord tube power amp I was given, I'm setting about the elderly 24 channel studio master desk that's sat in the loft. Also serviced my old Marshall guitar amp and dug out my Fender Strat (strings have rocketed in price since I last bought any!) Someplace I have a Sansui quad stereo processor in that loft too, and there should be an RCA ribbon microphone hidden away also.
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