Topic: Nakamichi Cassette Decks

[ifthir]

Hi everyone!

So I finally got my hands on a Nakamichi Dragon cassettedeck. And it's sweeeet!

It's not been used much over the years, although it's been used from time to time.

The NAAC works just fine, but from time to time the speed slows down and I'm not able to use the autoreverse-function. It seems it hasn't got the "power" to play it the other way.

What causes these slowdown of the tapespeed? It's NOT wear and tear since it looks excellent (the power-switch text is not even worn out) and it looks nice and clean on the inside.

Is there any cleaning that can be done to prevent this, cause it only happens from time to time, not all the time.

Thankful for any type of answer....

/Jonas Karlsson, Sweden

I absolutely do not currently have this issue with my Dragon. You may wish to have it serviced that sounds odd.

[andromedanwarmachine]

tell you what though-

(no offence intended jlykos) the Sony stuff is nice, but really, the only thing that's going to compete with the Nak gear would be this...

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.analogstereo.com/images/r2r/b215_main.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.analogstereo.com/reel2reel_revox_b215.htm&usg=__JqYZ4wdz-vx1SzqlsHGdt78mxd4=&h=238&w=550&sz=21&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=tw28yt0fmb5OZM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=193&ei=AUoMTtOTLYS48gO36ujVDg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Drevox%2Bcassette%2Bdeck%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D571%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=156&page=1&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:3,s:0&tx=76&ty=55

[kenirob]

Hey man I repair old tape decks all the time, the units probably in need of new drive belts

[andromedanwarmachine]

hey Kenirob,

do you see alot of old Nakamich gear...?

JimP

[tungarbulb]

While it doesn't have easily-adjustable azimuth adjustment, one could do worse than one of these:http://audioklassiks.de/wordpress/?p=12

[andromedanwarmachine]

ha that's tremendous!

(why isn't the tape counter incrementing though!!?)