Yesterday I found a complete Philips 900 series stack with DCC recorder at a local thrift shop and bought it. It said tested working, to what degree I did not know but for 85 with remote, I’m not complaining.
The plan was/is to look it over, see if the cap situation seemed alright (it does, legs are shiny on the cassette mechanism part, back and top board, cant reach middle board) and go from there.
Now it did play Abba (analog) for a couple seconds, I turned auto reverse on twice and now reverse and play are stuck in an auto reverse loop. That’s fun.
So two questions, would it be worth repairing/checking this deck, and does anyone need or want a set? Since I likely cannot afford a repair session. I would like to at least make sure they get a good home.
(Philips DCC 951, FT930 and FA911)
@DutchComputerKid
After the things @copymaster is talking about you also need to do underneath.
Most probably it does have a broken gear which you need to replaced. I don’t know where you are located in the Netherlands but i can help you a little if you want too.
Hmmm after tying to lift over the covers to inspect the caps with my phone and knowing all the clips in front, I’d rather not break anything more knowing that the plastic has alll gone extremely brittle and all the things to work on copymaster mentioned.
Like that gear, so now the player is stuck in auto reverse loop whatever you do.
I’m in the east side, Twente area. Really makes me want to pass it on to someone who does know exactly how to work on one, and possibly with parts or the ways to make parts. That was the main goal anyway just that it broke so quick…
I used to have DCC tapes but never throught to see let alone own a DCC deck, and my DAT deck works fine as is.
