A full Spectrum of emotions

[exxos]

Interesting you mention background music machines, as I had one of these as my main cassette deck for ages:

What a wonderful piece of kit :thumbup:

I only remember servicing the actual tape player mechanisms and I think they were called "TOA" tape players. Though I never, to my recollection, saw the complete unit. I guess there was little point removing the entire unit when they could just take out the mechanism and send it to us for repair.

I serviced those on work experience back in ~1994. Though I think they "went out of fashion" not long after. While there was jukeboxes and stuff for the public to choose songs, I think mostly they moved to Denon multi-CD players. One which I think held 5 CDs on a huge spinning tray.. My God those things were built like total garbage! I used to like Denon equipment until I started servicing their stuff!!

[rubber_jonnie]

That's is one cool piece of machinery @rubber_jonnie

It really is!

[Icky]

All this spectrum talk reminds me I still need to fit a vLA82S+ I have sitting on my desk https://vdrivezx.com/vla82s-a-spectrum- ... -ay-sound/ to my old speccy.

[rubber_jonnie]

All this spectrum talk reminds me I still need to fit a vLA82S+ I have sitting on my desk https://vdrivezx.com/vla82s-a-spectrum- ... -ay-sound/ to my old speccy.

You know you want to :)

In the meantime, here's some Speccy stuff for you to help move you along.

First off the Datacorder mechanism has been cleaned and lubricated, heads cleaned and a new belt installed:

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And it now fast forwards & rewinds perfectly, and playback seems to be much smoother and quieter.

Then the SCART cable for the +2 arrived and the picture quality is excellent, but then it is from CoolNovelties and they make great cables.

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This is via my OSSC, nice and sharp compared to the modulator :)

Last, but by no means least is the spares board that also arrived this morning:

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It needs some attention, which I already knew it would, but may get kelp me get the + up and running again

[HigashiJun]

Some good news at least.

Have you ever thought about running a museum, @rubber_jonnie ? You really have a lot of nice stuff.

:)

[stephen_usher]

He's got no-where near enough for a museum. :-)

[rubber_jonnie]

He's got no-where near enough for a museum. :-)

Hmm, perhaps you underestimate my collection ;)

Sadly I don't have the time to run even a small museum, stupid work...

[HigashiJun]

Sadly I don't have the time to run even a small museum, stupid work...

:lol:

For sure, but thanks to my stupid work, I can at least fulfil my childhood's dreams.

[rubber_jonnie]

Sadly I don't have the time to run even a small museum, stupid work...

:lol:

For sure, but thanks to my stupid work, I can at least fulfil my childhood's dreams.

Agreed, work pays for all this lovely stuff, and maybe a museum on retirement :)

[exxos]

The Museum of rubber johnnies equipment...

Somehow think that could attract a whole new level of weirdo :lol: