I am having a problem with pre-recorded tapes. When I hit play it skips pass track 1 then reverses to side B then stops. If I manually hit the side A and hit play it plays fine the rest of the tape (both sides). This is probably related to the other issue I am having that it can’t record but I am posting it separate just in case anyone else had this problem and found a fix. I did clean the head, put two new pinch rollers, the belt is in great shape, plays analog tapes perfectly and plays DCC tapes perfectly with no dropouts. See video. Also, sometimes when I hit skip a weird track number that does not exists shows up on the display and will not skip because the number does not exists on the DCC.
When I hit PLAY from the beginning of the pre-recorded tape I see all error all 1s. After the player stops (after doing what you see in the video) I hit Next Ch1 to 6 all Error 14, Ch7 error 18, Ch8 14, Ch9 20. When I rewind and repeat the test I get Ch1 15, Ch2 14,Ch3 to 6 15, Ch 6 17, Ch 8 15, Ch 9 20.
If I play the tape 5 minutes in, the errors are all 0 with the second to last digit flickering between 0 and 1 (I think) during regular play. Now if I hit next Ch1 to 6 are 0, Ch7 is changing continuously 3,10, 3, 2, 7 5, 7,2, 5, 7 and so on. Ch8 0, Ch9 10.
We know it is not recording so that part of the board is bad. So if I wanted to try to align the head how do I go about it? I do see two screws one for each side.
Yes it does work otherwise except for not recording (bad capacitor probably). No dropouts and sounds amazing. I will leave it alone and live with it like that for now and send you the RW board.
