Technics RS-DC8 problems

Recorders, Players, etc.
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Hi

i came across of a broken Technics RS-DC8, changed the gears (one was broken), pinch rollers, the belt, capacitors on RW board (locally didn’t found 6,3V and 10V, so i replaced them with 16V same value) but still not working.

all the mechanical parts seems to work OK (open, close, start, stop, head is turning from side A to B,..)

the problem is with audio

analog cassettes work OK

DCC casette

  • side A plays recorded cassettes with some dropouts
  • sibe B doesn’t play almost nothing
  • recoding seems that it doesn record anything on side A and B, but seems that it writes track marks

any idea?

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Did you download the service manual and test the head in service mode?

You might have lost a few channels, preventing decent DCC playback.

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Any differences between side A and B are almost always due to worn out pinch rollers.

Another possibility (less likely) is that the head pivot mechanism isn’t working properly (e.g. because it needs cleaning).

===Jac

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Hi and thanks for response

will try to test the head in service mode as soon as i get new batch of capacitors. the ones i used had too thick leads so i had to solder them on the upped side instead of through hole. So i already removed them and done a better cleaning of the RW board.

Pinch rollers are new. Mayble will try to interchange them, to see if the is any difference

i will check the possibility of cleaning also the pivot mechanism.