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Old December 30th 05, 02:01 AM posted to alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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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

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Old December 30th 05, 02:10 AM posted to alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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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

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Old December 30th 05, 02:13 AM posted to alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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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!


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Old December 30th 05, 02:36 AM posted to alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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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
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Old December 30th 05, 02:37 AM posted to alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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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
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Old December 30th 05, 02:46 AM posted to alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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the cassette is a bit sluggish. got the 8 track counter to work just
had to play with the belt.

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Old December 30th 05, 02:48 AM posted to alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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i think the casette holder fell off

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Old December 30th 05, 02:50 AM posted to alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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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!


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Old December 30th 05, 02:54 AM posted to alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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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.

I always had the idea that Fisher was one of the
better units. Did Sanyo make it to higher specs than their units or were
they a budget setup. Seems to me they were in the middle somewhere
price-wise?


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Old December 30th 05, 05:22 AM posted to alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:54:37 GMT, "William W Western"
wrote:

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.

I always had the idea that Fisher was one of the
better units. Did Sanyo make it to higher specs than their units or were
they a budget setup. Seems to me they were in the middle somewhere
price-wise? snip


In the late 1930s, Avery Fisher, a friend of radio component innovator
and inventor Alexander Meissner before WW II, started making some of
the first "high fidelity" radio sets ever seen with his Fisher Radio
Corporation on Long Island, NY, in 1937. After WW II, Fisher was on
the cutting edge of high fidelity audio equipment, and produced some
of the finest tuners and amplifiers available through the '60s. Fisher
Radio Corporation produced what most agree is the first solid state
audio preamplifier in the world, the TR-1, the first audio amplifier
that exhibited zero hum at all. Some wags decried Fisher's later
solid state equipment in comparison to their fine tube receivers like
the 500C and the most competent 800C, but it too was of uniformly high
quality. For some pictures of real Fisher gear, see
http://fisherdoctor.com/ and browse some of the finest pieces of audio
gear ever built, second only perhaps to McIntosh Labs.

After Avery Fisher retired and sold the business, things went downhill
quickly, as the US audio electronics business was under direct attack
from "Japan, Inc." After floudering in the face of cut-rate Japanese
imports sold under names like Pioneer, Kenwood and Sony, Fisher Radio
closed their doors and sold the name to Sanyo, who before this time
was churning out made-to-order audio equipment for other companies,
basically functioning as an off-shore factory...the start of the
decline of the US as a world manufacturing power. Not long after that
happened, Sanyo started selling cheesy K-Mart quality stuff using the
vaunted Fisher name...an insult, to be sure. Even more insulting was
their use of the moniker "Studio Standard" on a lot of their K-Mart
crap. Of course, any audio pro would get quite a chuckle out of this,
as the stuff was basically cheesy junk. Many other formerly great US
names have been similarly defiled...Crosley, Westinghouse. RCA,
Emerson...all former great US companies now just badges for
exploitation for the japs and chinks to sell their cheaply made, badly
designed crap destined to be unloaded on clueless, unintelligent
buyers at discount joints like K-Mart and Wal-Mart..

Oh, by the way...back in the days of "real" Fisher, it was never "a
Fisher'...it was "THE Fisher," as stated on thier products. Avery
Fisher's love of music led ot his donating a ton of money to build the
acoustically problematic Avery Fisher Hall (formerly Philharmonic
Hall) at Lincoln Center, the acoustics of which were horrid for years.
One of the great pipe organs built by Aeolian-Skinner Co. of Boston
was installed there in 1962, but sounded quite awful because of the
completely dead acoustical environment. Anti-organ forces within the
Philharmonic Association, more than likely led by confirmed organ
hater/NY Phil conductor Seiji Osawa, found the way to having the organ
removed and sold, whereupon it was absorbed into the ridiculously
large and ineffective Hazel Wright Organ at the "Crystal Cathedral" in
Garden Grove, CA (derisively known locally as the "Silica Basilica")
This organ was built by Fratelli Ruffati of Italy, a builder known for
lousy quality on many fronts, as are many things from Italy except
leather goods and clothes. The Philharmonic Hall organ was lost
inside many loud and coarse sounding ranks of Italian pipework,
controlled by a very unreliable Italian electropneumatic system.

The organ has since been rebuilt by American builders and now works
and plays quite well, although tuning stability is spotty due to the
interior weather patterns caused by the exposure to sunlight during
the day. The "Silica Basilica" of course was the wet dream of fundie
christian drive-in church huckster Robert Schuler.

See? You learn something new every day on Usenet! Just steer clear
of the cranks and whackos...which seem to be in the majority.

dB
 




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