Christian Christensen wrote:

I asume you understood the basic of cleaning axel and bearing.

O yes, but a simple explanation could be that you by changing the motor mount angle you compensated for wear on bearing and angle of the contact point of the idler wheel. What ever it was, it worked and thats the main thing with these old wonderful devises,

BTW nearly nobody here in Mexico has seen, not to speak of used , one of these RtoRs, I demonstrate it frequently, grabbing from the radio (BM 1000) and then playing from the BC showing them that Tape is engaged. I just have to get microphone, thats goanna blow them away.

Getting a B&O mic. would of course be ideal. But does any of you have a suggestion for another brand.

Søren Mexico wrote:

BTW nearly nobody here in Mexico has seen, not to speak of used , one of these RtoRs, I demonstrate it frequently, grabbing from the radio (BM 1000) and then playing from the BC showing them that Tape is engaged. I just have to get microphone, thats goanna blow them away.

Søren,

You’re not alone sir! My Tandberg has the exact same affect here on ANY Canadian under 50. Especially at 9 ½, with the VU meters flashing has them memorized. 😉

Jeff

Søren Mexico wrote:

BTW nearly nobody here in Mexico has seen, not to speak of used , one of these RtoRs, I demonstrate it frequently, grabbing from the radio (BM 1000) and then playing from the BC showing them that Tape is engaged. I just have to get microphone, thats goanna blow them away.

Søren,

You’re not alone sir! My Tandberg has the exact same affect here on ANY Canadian under 50. Especially at 9 ½, with the VU meters flashing has them memorized. 😉

Jeff

chartz wrote:

You mean mesmerized! 😕

OMG, corrected by a Frenchman who obviously speaks and reads English better than I. How embarrassing.

Yes Jacques 😳 I definitely intended to say mesmerized NOT memorized.

Perhaps I should have been memorizing how to spell “mesmerized.”

The cold and hard truth is I am pretty close to the worst speller on the planet. This was merely a typo that spell-check couldn’t (and I didn’t) catch.

In my sophomore year in collage I had a term paper undiplomatically shoved in my face by an irate professor who wrote on the cover page in bold RED letters that “all three ways you attempted to spell [XYZ] are WRONG. How the hell did you get this far?”

Mortified as I was, it did help that the professor’s name was Dr. Charles Wrong. (Snicker unrepressed.)

I would love to promise that I’ll do better in the future after this correction, but my gift for slaughtering the English language with colourful but misguided attempts at proper spelling has not lessened with age.

Jeff

I just love your style no end, Jeff.

And don't worry, you must be one of the best writers on this forum, and reading your posts is always thoroughly enjoyable!  

And that professor of yours, well, I rest my case!

Why thank you Jacques for the generous compliment, something I will treasure for a very long time.

Believe it or not, I was the editor for 3 minor publications over the years and due to my talent for poor spelling I routinely had my work checked by an employee prior to publication. This employee was an august patrician who was as gifted in finding my spelling errors as I was for sneaking them in. Stealth miss-spelled words are my specialty.

Max, the long suffering employee told me he genuinely looked forward to the week prior to publication just to see what I would do next as an insult to the entire education system.

I also had a supervisor when I worked for the Chamber of Commerce who told me when I resigned for a better position that she was really going to miss my monthly reports. “”All the others are so dry and dull, but I always look forward to reading yours, you put fun into your reports.”

Ironic humour would be more accurate in seeing what I could get away with. Thankfully, my supervisor shared my sense of humour.

Jeff

Piaf wrote:

Thankfully, my supervisor shared my sense of humour.

So do I.