Technics

Not a difficult fault to diagnose on this one, intermittent and erratic operation of the function selector, I never see any point squirting these with switch cleaner as it’s only a temporary fix, there’s also no point replacing it with a new one as it’s easy enough to remove disassemble and clean up. I used […]

Next on the bench was a Technics cassette deck from the very early 80’s. It wouldn’t play a tape and it turned out to be the rubber reel idler, a bit of a clean up had it as good as new. What a nice machine though, both the capstan and reel motors were direct drive,

I’ve had this linear drive turntable sitting in the corner of my workshop for several years, it was given to me with a few other items by a customer who no longer wanted it. So eventually I got round to looking at it, first thing I noticed was the original transit material was still attached

A very good quality amp and in very good condition, everything worked well as long as the function selector was held in a certain position. Easy enough to diagnose a dirty switch but not that easy to get to for removal. Probably an hour of stripping down and unsoldering and I had the switch on