Hi,
This is my first post on the forum so please point me to the proper place if this is not the place for this kind of question.
I recently reinstated my DCC600 after it was in a box in the attic for 20+ years.
I opened it and gently cleaned the head with a swab and alcohol as per the instructions I found on this site.
At first some cassettes would not play due to the stick and slip problem so I cleaned the felt pad on all cassettes.
Playing cassettes was fine after that and I enjoyed listening to my cassettes that sound great after so many years.
I wanted to try some recording and also wanted a DCC player in the living room so I bought a second player and some used cassettes (the start of the trouble).
I cleaned the heads on the new player and the felt pads on the used cassettes and played them (found some gems that are keepers).
When I made my first recording at first it looked like all was going fine, I did a recording from a Philips CDR770 to the DCC600 over digital cable.
When I made a numbering error I decided to erase the last marker and press renumber, this is where the fun stopped.
The renumbering took a long time and when it was finished there were no track numbers at all.
I then searched on how to erase a used cassette and make a proper new recording with the append function to get the track numbering right.
At this point the cassette that had been recording fine so far went into a side A → side B → tape full loop.
I tried the other DCC600 recorder and it wrote a lead in, great!
I replaced the DCC600 that did not want to record with the one that successfully wrote a lead in but alas, it went into the same side A → side B → tape full loop.
Ok, I will try a new blank tape (I bought two on eBay, still in the seal). Same result.
So the new tape also is seen as “full”?
At this point I was getting a bit upset and decided to rewind the tape and press mark erase a few times to create an empty place at the start of the tape to see if it would then be seen as a blank cassette.
To my dismay when I took out the cassette there was a bit of tape sticking out between the metal cover.
I did not trust this player anymore and switched back to the other DCC600 with the same result, not wanting to record on the new cassette (tape full) and a bit of tape sticking out when I took out the cassette.
At this point both players have trouble playing any cassettes, so the problem (whatever it is) is getting worse and is now also affecting playback.
I hope the smart minds on this forum can help me find out why recording and playback is no longer working and why sometimes (roughly 50% of the time) a cassette will have a bit of tape sticking out after removing it from the player.
May thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Marcel