Topic: stopping on it's own

[sec1968]

   Hi all. Maybe someone can deduce a fix for this problem to keep me from sending my deck in to Pro Digital for the 3rd
time in 3 years.

   A couple weeks ago I taped a show using my 7 yr old M1, with no problems. 2 night later, i'm taping 4 bands, changing
tapes & batteries mid way thru. During the last band, I noticed that the time on the deck read 00:00. Thinking I ran out of tape,
I put my gear up and thought nothing more about it.

   A week ago saturday I was taping a show, and at about the 2:15:00 or so area, the M1 just stopped recording on it's own,
unloaded and reloaded the tape. I quickly hit record again and it went for another 5 or so min. before stopping again. I had
plenty of tape left (90m) and the batteries had 1 or 2 bars left.

   Last night it did it again, about the same mark in time, a 90m tape with plenty of room to roll with.

   Any suggestions from the masses?

Thanks.

shane

[LEDZEPZOSO]

Hello Shane,
 I have never heard of this problem but I will throw this out as a possible problems. Since this has happened a few times at about the same time tells it was not a issue with the tape. Is it possible that the motor is not stroung enough to pull the tape through the transport since it is stopping at the same time?

[udovdh]

M1 needs serviceing....

[rocksuitcase]

the torque or tension arms or both need replacing.  SONY Portable DAT's can exhibit this problem when these parts get worn.  Additionally, some DAT decks outright REFUSE to use 90M tapes, but this does not appear to be your issue.  My D-8 did almost the same thing for a few months, and when I sent it in to be repaired they replaced the two parts I mentioned above.