Component Repair for Reel-to-Reel Recorder

Video Transcript

"For Expert Village, this is KGB Studios, Seattle. I'm Kurt the chief engineer. Welcoming you to yet another session on 4-track reel-to-reel. All right so now that we've got all the screws undone here, we're going to actually remove this panel, as you can see. And we'll make sure that it doesn't touch, good electronic practice. Under here, as you can see here, I'm turning it, as you can see, and the motor up here is turning as well, up on the top of your screen. That this is the actual capstan and there's a round belt there that you will need to do some restoration to. So, this piece here is the flywheel, this piece right here where the pointer is. Then right up in that area if you can see it, is a round belt. That broke back in 1993. You have two basic choices of which, to repair the flywheel. Which is a common problem within reel-to-reel 4-track machines. It controls this particular piece and the flywheel is a counterbalance of course. But you have two ways of replacing it. You can either take this motor off. Which you can see the 4 screws here. You can take the 4 screws off. Or you can take the 2 screws off here and replace the belt that way. So, it's a little difficult to get in and you have to remove a number of things, but the belt itself was replaced and the deck is in good working order. Kay, the other part, this is a different view that's done in the service manual so you can clearly see the round belt on the flywheel, which is right here and then the capstan motor there. That's called the exploded view and this is the practical view right here. Where you have the capstan motor and the take-up motor. Join us again in the next section, where we'll be talking about oiling these motors so that they perform for years. As in this case we've had it for over 30 years. On Expert Village, I'm Kurt at KGB Studios. See you next time."