I have no idea what I did but magically now fwd/rew both are working.
Only issue – when I hit forward the mechanism works as expected BUT when the tape reaches the end, the head turns and tape plays and unit goes to STANDBY with the head still engaged. I have to hit STOP again to bring unit out of STANDBY and head to disengage.
I am not sure if the head should engage for the normal (“>>” or “<<“) function. I can understand that head would engage in the search (play+fwd/rew) mode.
Hi Sverre..Thank you for your response. I did check your earlier post on the subject and tried the approach but it didn’t work. Manually tuning the gear does move the other parts. The unit plays well, sounds good but its irritating that FF/REW does not work. Not sure why PLAY gets engaged when pressing FF/REW.
Yes, with the bad standby transformer , the status LED did turn green was signal was detected.
I did check with my local contact and he didn’t have the part. He does have a couple of 220v version (not sure why he has those in the US) but said that it would require the main power supply also to be converted to 220v and then use a step-down transformer….too much of a pain so I will wait for something to show up on ebay. I managed to reuse the amp pcb’s on two other BL4000’s that have developed foam rot related issues (static/hum).
Will surely update if I find an alternate solution. Thanks again !!
Thanks Glitch. I pulled out the standby transformer and yes looks like the primary coils are shorted :-(. I am getting continuity between the two primaries.
What could have caused both (speakers) of them to go bad at the same time ?
