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Hello everyone,

I found a fisher all-in-one-unit turntable cassette fm-am tuner with an
8 track recorder with dolby
for $20 I bought it about an hour ago. the the thing that you insert
the casette into came off, the changer dosent set the needle down in
the right place so the needle falls off the side of the record and the
counters on the 8 track and cassette dont work. any ideas on how to fix
these problems.

thanks,
Rusty

cassette holder came off- no idea without seeing it.

changer doesn't set needle down correctly- there is an adjustment stop
for that somewhere

counters don't work- they may run off small round or square belts- it
the belts break or stretch, they won't work- open it up and look

hope that helps. it does sound fixable to me

the cassette is a bit sluggish. got the 8 track counter to work just
had to play with the belt.

old timer pro 8-track tip:

if the counter drive belt is connected to the capstan, leave it off and
don't use the counter- it adds wow/flutter to the playback function by
putting a drag and reducing torque of the tape drive capstan

I always get those working to sell a deck 'cuz it's a nice added
feature, but on my own decks, they are disconnected for optimum
playback quality.

the justment is a screw on the bottom right of the tone arm assembly you
turn it clock wize to move it tward the outside of the landing grove of a
record and counter clockwize to move it twards the inside of the landing
grove i set mine to land in the exact center of the landing area and it
works like a charm now.
the 8 track counters i cant tell you with out seeing it could be burnt out
bulbs or broken wireing ect.



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cassette holder came off- no idea without seeing it.

changer doesn't set needle down correctly- there is an adjustment stop
for that somewhere

counters don't work- they may run off small round or square belts- it
the belts break or stretch, they won't work- open it up and look

hope that helps. it does sound fixable to me

counters on the 8 track and cassette dont work. any ideas on how to fix
these problems.
Set your soldering iron to hot-hot-hot and get busy!

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:13:37 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote:

counters on the 8 track and cassette dont work. any ideas on how to fix
these problems.
Set your soldering iron to hot-hot-hot and get busy! snip

There, there...we've had enough trouble with that of late, without you
egging on more destruction!

dB

Set your soldering iron to hot-hot-hot and get busy!
snip
There, there...we've had enough trouble with that of late, without you
egging on more destruction!
The consensus seems to be that the unit is fixable, SO DO NOT USE
THE IRON!

On 29 Dec 2005 17:01:31 -0800, "rusty" wrote:

Hello everyone,

I found a fisher all-in-one-unit turntable cassette fm-am tuner with an
8 track recorder with dolby snip

This is a Sanyo unit of dubious quality.

for $20 I bought it about an hour ago. the the thing that you insert
the casette into came off snip

Broke or just fell off?

the changer dosent set the needle down in
the right place so the needle falls off the side of the record snip

That's an internal adjustment on the underside of the changer. I'd
replace that stylus first thing, as well. I think these used a cheap
magnetic cartridge of some kind, not sure which one...low-line Sony? I
forgot.

and the
counters on the 8 track and cassette dont work. any ideas on how to fix
these problems. snip

Those are usually driven with a thin square belt inside, and break
often with age. The thing to do with both of these machines is
replace all the belts at the same time, as well as have the
lubrication and cleaning done concurrently.

dB

i think the casette holder fell off