My tape recorder is probably 30-40 years old. It plays 4-track tapes. Twenty or so years ago, I had it tuned up. I recently stumbled onto it in a closet and realized that I have some old tapes that I recorded family moments on, and it might be wise to convert them to digital.
I set it up a few weeks ago with a PA amp with speakers I have, and found that it more or less worked on a commercially produced tape, 7" reel. It was a bit slow, but I could tell music was there. Aside from that, when I stop the recorder it makes something of a grunt.
I did open the top and examine matters, but have no service guide to attempt some sort of repair.
Since the PA amp and speakers are hard to put up for further exploration, I thought I'd taking the audio from the recorder to a video port on a TV set. I couldn't get any sound at all. Am I missing something? Comments?
What I'm really trying to do is determine whether there is any recording on the family tapes I have.