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I have an old Teac A-4010 reel to reel. It's a wonderful machine and plays beautifully, but can you remind me as to where is the start button, or play button?
The two arrow buttons on either side of the FAST key will play it Forward or Reverse. Combining the FAST key with a direction initiates a fast forward or rewind.
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This will all depend on the age of the equipment and what connectors are on each one. Could you post photos of the panels on them showing what connector ports are actually there. How old is the reel to reel? The really early 1970's models will probably not work or will need specialist cable adapters to get it to connect to the Kenwood and even then it may not work. The 80's and some of the 90's ones used Component, Phono or Jack Plug connectors. The really modern ones use Optical cables.
In general it usually sets up by connecting to the "OUT" port on the reel to reel and the matching "IN" port on the Kenwood.
Logically, if the full tape reel and the empty reel are identical the second must fill at the same rate the other empties and all the tape from the first will fit on the second.
What does happen, however, is at the start the second reel seems to fill much quicker than the first reel is emptying, which is understandable when for any given tape length the second reel will revolve between at least twice as fast as the first reel and probably even faster.
A tape reel that appears to be half full will have much less than half the available tape capacity filled.
These units are old enough to need new electrolytic capacitors installed in them. I have seen wind like sounds and frying eggs type sound that are all resolved by a new set of caps. These things are from the Vietnam war era and when I was at Teac in the 80's they were considered old then.
You need new brake pads installed as the ones in there now are dried up and may have fallen off. This is very common with older decks or 30-40 years old. I am still working on these decks at Skywave Tape Deck Repair in the Chicago area.
In short, no. if you look closely you will see the Teac 3340 has a much larger/thicker capstan shaft than other Teac reel decks. This feature allows the faster tape speeds...7 1/2 and 15 ips. In order to slow down the Teac 3340 you would have to change the flywheel to one from another deck that was made to run at 3 3/4 and 7 1/2. Which is possible but some work..plus you would have to find a slower speed flywheel from another Teac deck. Also to maintain performance, the bias and Eq positions for the slower speeds would have to be readjusted from 7 1/2 and 15.
This sounds like the solonoids are not working. This can be a power supply problem, a control problem, or the solonoids themselves. In any case, this will need to see a service shop. Where are you located?
You can get a belt kit from these guys for 15 plus some post. Fresh belts, good service Bob will help you out. Cheers. A FixYa for this would make my day :)
Are you talking about a wheel or a belt? If it is a belt you can go to a vacuum cleaner shop and match one up( make it just a little small) and it will work just fine. I have done this with perfect results.
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