[Robert Stevens]

Unfortunately, the Studer list was closed back in august.

I did just figure out that there is a hydraulic "screen door closer "like thingy that is easily disturbed. Turning that a quarter turn solved the sluggishness.

The shift in the stabilizer is still unexplained, and probably as you suggest, will happen again. But for now it works right.

Thanks,

Rob


On Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 3:57:46 PM UTC-4, Robert Stevens wrote:
Hi, long shot here.

I had a problem with my A800 pre-stablizer shifting down a couple mm causing tape to get dragged down on the head and making a crinkling noise at the roller.

I took the assembly off the machine and added a brass spacer shim ring to the shaft as per the service manual instructions. This raised the stabilizer roller back up to the correct height.

When I put the assembly back in the machine, it operates very sluggishly. It used to clamp down on the tape almost instantly but now it takes a couple seconds to fully engage as well as a few seconds to fully release. The original problem has been solved but now a new one in it's place.

The question of course is how did I frig up the engage disengage speed of the 2 rollers? I did not make mechanical adjustments (intentionally) to the assembly.

Thanks,

Rob