Peter Larsen wrote:
The danish ReVox importer made worse damage to my A77 in 1974 when
fitting a 15 ips capstan shaft than what you see on these pictures,
unfortunately it was 1999 before I understood just what it was that was
wrong with the transport and why its 15 kHz stability was poor ....
capstan not at 90 degrees to the tape transport plane .... :-(

I hope you sent them a letter of complaint 15 years after the fact. The
motor kit comes with a bag of shim washers and you're supposed to shim
the motor straight specifically to prevent this. Sounds like somebody was
not reading the manual.
--scott


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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."