Repair Tools for Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder

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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. O.K. so here are the tools of the trade that you will need. As we point to them we'll try to describe them a little bit as we go. Obviously the most important one you use for cleaning and cleaning the heads are going to be these Q-tips. I use Q-tips. They seem to work really good. Some say they never liked them because they left residue. I didn't have that problem at all. That's one piece. The other of course is the cleaning kit. This has various pieces for cleaning the heads that we talked about earlier and we'll show you, we'll demonstrate how that actually works. Magnetic tool. In case you lose a screw. You don't want to keep that too close and we'll talk a little bit more about the magnetism and such later. This is actually a cool little piece. I don't know if you can get a good view of that or not, but what it is actually is a head lubricant. It's got a Teflon type base and it works really good for lubricating the head. This is a cool device here. This is actually for splicing the tape. Tape is a quarter inch wide here and you actually can edit tapes that way. That's how they cut movies as well as audio tape. This is also a splicing kit here. Made by BASF. This is a very important piece too. This is a head de-magnetizer. This actually de-magnetizes the head and you can see here with the tip. It's very, very light weight and small. And the last piece of course is you definitely do need. You'll definitely need the service manual and this is the Dolcorder 8140, but it's the same electronic as the 7140. One other thing to keep in mind. I use what they call Belt Renew. I don't know if you can see that, but that's very old. 8/85 is the date on it. Pretty amazing that it's still around. So those are the tools of the trade of servicing a reel-to-reel machine. Join us next session as we continue.

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