Electronics Repair

Ampex F4460 reel to reel.

I'm working on my old Ampex 4460 reel to reel machine. (work is slow), and I'd like to listen to some of my old tapes....

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posted by captainvideo462009

40 comments posted 11yrs posted by captainvideo462009

Re: Bose L1 predicament

> Not come across this sort of thing before but: > > Customer brought in a Bose L1 Model 2 system - he's broken the sli...

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posted by news

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TIP: Cheapskate speaker grill (UK)

In poundland shops at the moment "party" scarves, black and silver thread or grey and silver thread, ignore the purple...

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posted by diverse

0 comments posted 11yrs posted by diverse

Advent 450S receiver

Hello, Anyone have a service manual, or at least alignment instructions for one of these? It's an underwhelming small r...

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posted by tim

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OT: expensive decorative lamps that won't light, for no obvious reason

A few months back I got around to cleaning my condo's ceiling fixtures. These use tiny bulbs with miniature Edison base...

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posted by grizzledgeezer

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Peavey chip ceramic cap labelling of 1990

The schamatic of this PV amp out there is for 2000, this 1994 version quite different. All the CC caps are small mustar...

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posted by diverse

2 comments posted 11yrs posted by diverse

acrylic cement

Most of you are probably familiar with acrylic cement. I used it for the first time recently, and thought it would be g...

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posted by grizzledgeezer

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My network used to work.

My network is set up like this: Charter cable modem -> my Netgear cable modem used as a wireless router -> Airlink seco...

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posted by farberbear.unspam

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Torroidal madness?

Hi all, recently I replaced a toroidal mains transformer in a 5 or 6 year old Crown XLS602 power amplifier. This was a...

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posted by pallison49

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Need Negative Temp Coefficient Component for Xmas Lights Slow Turn-on

I have a couple of "sealed" devices that apparently have negative temp coef ficient devices inside of them that are pla...

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posted by hrhofmann

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ajax motor, how to chang it over to high voltage

, 6 wires ,green ,red,, blue, black yellow white, The blue and the black change direction can you send a diagram to chan...

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posted by Carole

2 comments posted 11yrs posted by Carole

RCF ART300A speaker

Hi, some of you will have seen this famous powered speaker since it has been ar ound for about 18 years. Tens of thousa...

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posted by pallison49

6 comments posted 11yrs posted by pallison49

Manual eject cassette on Toshiba TX972 car CD player?

Does anyone know if there is a way of ejecting the cassette from this CD cassette player without connecting the power pl...

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posted by licensedtoquill

3 comments posted 11yrs posted by licensedtoquill

Fender Power Chorus

No chorus. The rate pot has been changed, and it appears successful but messy. It is a slightly different pot but seems...

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posted by jurb6006

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ETEK Note Mix MA-400

Squealing. More volume, more squealing. Quite annoying. Pretty obvious it needs filters. Can't seem to find service inf...

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posted by jurb6006

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