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Title: checking hours on a d7?
Post by: justink on August 26, 2003, 08:49:32 PM

is there anyway to check how many hours a d7 has ?

-j

Title: Re:checking hours on a d7?
Post by: Brian Skalinder on August 26, 2003, 09:34:16 PM

Quote from: justink on August 26, 2003, 08:49:32 PM

is there anyway to check how many hours a d7 has ?

-j

Nope.  Do you have access to the deck?  If so, pop off the lid and take a look at the heads.  Shiny is good, dull and gray is bad.

http://www.oade.com/Tapers_Section/bad_tascam_head.html (http://www.oade.com/Tapers_Section/bad_tascam_head.html)

Title: Re:checking hours on a d7?
Post by: blu666z on August 26, 2003, 09:41:15 PM

Nice link.

-Kevni

Title: Re:checking hours on a d7?
Post by: justink on August 26, 2003, 10:34:57 PM

thank you much... i'll take a look when i get it back from prodigital... i think he said he "wet cleaned" them, whatever that means...

-j

Title: Re:checking hours on a d7?
Post by: wboswell on August 27, 2003, 08:59:20 AM

Paul would have told you if the heads were looking thin.