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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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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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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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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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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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the cassette is a bit sluggish. got the 8 track counter to work just
had to play with the belt. |
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i think the casette holder fell off
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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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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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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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