A tale of two cassette decks.

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Re: A tale of two cassette decks.

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Re: A tale of two cassette decks.

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terrybooth wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 11:42 am As it turns out, both decks are dead. It just took a little longer for the Akai to do. I guess there's a pile of perished belts in them but It's not work the effort to do anything with them. Bye Bye cassette decks.
Highly likely that the drive belt/s have reverted to a semi-liquid state and will require to be removed with solvent before replacement, if you are really unlucky the pinch wheel will have done the same. Get any on a tape and you can say good-bye to that as well.

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