Hitachi deck- repair or toss?

[RobM99]

My friend has an Hitachi D-RV7 single tape deck which has been used with his
secondary stereo system. He went to use it after it had not been played for a
couple of months and it will not play or record, though it will rewind, fast
forward and eject.

This is from the mid-1980s and has been a good unit. Any opinions on whether
it should be repaired or disposed of?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[techforce]

From what you say, it sounds like it IS repairable. As for the cost of the
Job, it will depend on the Skill of the Service Center....and how much the
owner is willing to put into it Dollar Wise.


"RobM99" <robm99@aol.com> wrote in message
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My friend has an Hitachi D-RV7 single tape deck which has been used with
his
secondary stereo system. He went to use it after it had not been played
for a
couple of months and it will not play or record, though it will rewind,
fast
forward and eject.

This is from the mid-1980s and has been a good unit. Any opinions on
whether
it should be repaired or disposed of?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[James Sweet]

"RobM99" <robm99@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20031031152729.09103.00000018@mb-m21.aol.com...

My friend has an Hitachi D-RV7 single tape deck which has been used with
his
secondary stereo system. He went to use it after it had not been played
for a
couple of months and it will not play or record, though it will rewind,
fast
forward and eject.

This is from the mid-1980s and has been a good unit. Any opinions on
whether
it should be repaired or disposed of?

Many thanks in advance.

I would guess the belt has dried up and either broken or stretched,
shouldn't be hard to fix.

 

[Bubba Jones]

Some of the Hitachi tape decks from the early 80's used solenoids for
play / FF / Rev functions. A lot of units failed because of logic
drive problems.




On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:15:36 GMT, "James Sweet"
<jamessweet@hotmail.com> wrote:

"RobM99" <robm99@aol.com> wrote in message
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My friend has an Hitachi D-RV7 single tape deck which has been used with
his
secondary stereo system. He went to use it after it had not been played
for a
couple of months and it will not play or record, though it will rewind,
fast
forward and eject.

This is from the mid-1980s and has been a good unit. Any opinions on
whether
it should be repaired or disposed of?

Many thanks in advance.

I would guess the belt has dried up and either broken or stretched,
shouldn't be hard to fix.

 

[LASERandDVDfan]

Some of the Hitachi tape decks from the early 80's used solenoids for
play / FF / Rev functions. A lot of units failed because of logic
drive problems.

If memory serves me, a belt is used to drive the capstans while a separate
idler motor is used to drive the tape reels.

This means that the deck will rewind and fast-forward because of the
direct-drive idler mechanism, but won't move the tape on play or record modes
because the capstan (or capstans of an auto-reverse model), the component that
pulls the tape during play/rec, are driven by a belt that may now be a pile of
goo rather than a grippy strip of rubber. - Reinhart