If there’s an engineer’s equivalent to those YouTube ASMR videos, then perhaps it comes in a good repair or servicing journey filmed without edits at the bench. Relaxing to watch, has an interesting outcome. So it is with [Ken’s Shop], as he performs a full service on a Realistic cassette deck from we are guessing, the late 1970s or early 1980s.
These decks are nothing particularly special and can be found wherever second-hand consumer electronics go to die, but compared to may newer electronic devices they are surprisingly well-built. Their decades-old mechanicals usually only need a good clean and lubricate, their belts may need replacing, and perhaps the azimuth needs a tweak, but returning them to their former glory is rarely more than a bench session away.
So this is what we get, a relaxing twenty minutes or do of watching a guy fix a tape deck. A chuckle came here at Hackaday from our colleague Al passing this on, we agree with his not missing working on this type of deck as they could be fiddly. But still, if you find one of these and want it, they’re fixable with relative ease.
The old electromechanical decks lasted nearly forever and were easily serviced. The newer electronic logic driven decks are prone to breaking and not easily fixed.
Hi know where I can find a parts manual for a realistic SCT-24A model number 14-613?
ASMR: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
They are supposed to give you ‘brain tingles’ or something. I didn’t bother trying to find any.
The client requested a lot of repairs. So I just decided to go full hacker and change my entire house into a hackerspace, electronics engineer, with a full workshop in my house, and its gone really well. Repairing vintage tape deck is 300 Euros. Usually the guy is pretty much high on nostalgia, to really get relaxed, and I have this long Wiha screwdriver that goes all the way up to the bottom of tape tensioner mechanism. Then I put on an ESD strapon to my wrist. And just lube it up. It’s a long process to get your whole arm up there. But its an intense feeling for the machine, I think for myself too. You go to places that, even though it’s physical, with your hand, for some reason it’s also more emotional. It’s more psychological too. We both reach the same place, it’s really strange at the same time. And I found with a repair session like that it’s really exhausting.
Akso Mend It Mark on Youtube.
Do you know how or where I can find a parts manual for a Realistic SCT-24A model number 14-613 ? I texted earlier don’t know if it went through?
I have similiar AKAI GXC 46D bought around 1974. Still working:=)))
https://audio-database.com/AKAI/player/gxc-46d-e.html
https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/akai/gxc-46d.shtml
Seems that SCT is rebranded AKAI (or vice versa) ?