Dear all,
recently I bought a Porta One on ebay. It makes really a good impression, is very clean and except for the FastForward, everything worked quite nicely and I already recorded some bits.
However, suddenly while rewinding the cassette, it suddenly stopped rewinding while leaving the heads engaged and the cassette stuck. The problem remains since then:
When I turn on the machine (it might be of interest, that I run it on batteries since I don't have a adapter) you can hear directly a noise, from what I suppose might be the motor since it changes its pitch when using the pitch control. All the control buttons like RECORD, PLAY, PAUSE, FF, RW, STOP can be pushed but they don't do anything.
See also this video I made so you can see what I mean (on the video the humming noise is scarcely audible, I hope you still get it)
In advance, I am from Berlin, Germany and there is no official TASCAM Service here unfortunately, I opened the Porta One already once to see if there is something clearly visible like a broken belt or something, but that was not the case. Nevertheless I also read a bit here in the forum, and it seems that this doesn't have to mean anything since most problem are likely to be rather invisible?
Well, as you might noticed, I am quite new to analogue tape recorders and I can imagine that a remote diagnosis is fairly difficult, maybe it is a somewhat "typical" problem though and some of you can help me isolate the source of error so I can maybe know eventually if it is fixable or not (without spending a fortune).
Glad for every advice and thanks in advance!
Greetings,
Bastian
recently I bought a Porta One on ebay. It makes really a good impression, is very clean and except for the FastForward, everything worked quite nicely and I already recorded some bits.
However, suddenly while rewinding the cassette, it suddenly stopped rewinding while leaving the heads engaged and the cassette stuck. The problem remains since then:
When I turn on the machine (it might be of interest, that I run it on batteries since I don't have a adapter) you can hear directly a noise, from what I suppose might be the motor since it changes its pitch when using the pitch control. All the control buttons like RECORD, PLAY, PAUSE, FF, RW, STOP can be pushed but they don't do anything.
See also this video I made so you can see what I mean (on the video the humming noise is scarcely audible, I hope you still get it)
In advance, I am from Berlin, Germany and there is no official TASCAM Service here unfortunately, I opened the Porta One already once to see if there is something clearly visible like a broken belt or something, but that was not the case. Nevertheless I also read a bit here in the forum, and it seems that this doesn't have to mean anything since most problem are likely to be rather invisible?
Well, as you might noticed, I am quite new to analogue tape recorders and I can imagine that a remote diagnosis is fairly difficult, maybe it is a somewhat "typical" problem though and some of you can help me isolate the source of error so I can maybe know eventually if it is fixable or not (without spending a fortune).
Glad for every advice and thanks in advance!
Greetings,
Bastian
