Akai X-1800SD
Have a customer who loves his reel to reels. A few weeks ago, he bought in a Bang and Olufsen Beocord and I reached for the razor blade box. However today was a little more kind to me and we had a ...
Odds n Ends
120 Watt home brew FM transmitter repair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIBYS-lK764Today’s little task was to repair a 120 Watt FM 88-108 Mhz test transmitter. Home brew box using some odd modules and little buck power supplies etc. The ...
Delia Derbyshire, Electronic music composer
Delia Derbyshire – Queen of the BBC Radiophonic workshopWho is this young lady I hear you ask. Well, if you have heard the theme tune to Dr. Who, then, that was she! A very talented woman and a ...
Cleaning a record with glue!
Cleaning a record with PVA glue!Well I have seen this done before, so I thought that it would be a good idea to have a play myself.The sacrificial record was a well used and abused 7” 45 rpm. I had ...
Nasty Ultrasonic Air Fresheners! Radio interference.
inglés y españolThere is nothing like coming home from a hard day`s work, repairing toot for people who don’t appreciate the immense skill and mental anguish that goes in to obtaining a positive ...
Power cuts or what??!!! Have a UPS
Power cuts or what??!!! Have a UPS We all like living in the countryside, small villages and towns etc. but the drawback is the angry electric pixies that we use to drive our electrical equipment are ...
Hacker Centurion Garrard SP25Mk5
In comes the chap carrying his treasured Hacker Centurion. “Stopped working” was the fault summary. On closer interrogation under the angle poise lamp, I learned that the deck didn’t work and the ...
Ferguson 3216 1960s reel to reel tape recorder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfFTbRw5JZI Someone dropped this little machine in, wanting it no longer. I can remember being taken to the Ideal Home Exhibition in the late ‘60s, and one of these ...
Eaton Bray 12 2 mixing desk
Here is an old skool mixing desk. Customer was desperate to have this repaired, he loves pure analogue. Well, the desk had seen some service for true. I couldn’t find too much on this Eaton Bray 12 ...
Ferrograph RTS2 test set
Strange how things come around. When I moved to Spain, I thought I would be leaving tape recorder repairs behind me. But, after starting Zeta Services, I was proved quite wrong. With the rebirth of ...
BSR TD1 “Stuzzi” tape recorder refurbishment and tips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH8Fk4WE_B0This little Stuzzi tape recorder came in via a customer, wanting it brought back to life. He had bought it from new in the late ‘50s, ‘60s with his first ...
Ferguson “Fortune” Collaro Record player
Ferguson Collaro 1950s record playerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfrqt5Aong8Customer came in with this little treasure today, along with an early 60s tape recorder. The record player belonged to ...