Realistic TR 883 8-Track Recorder - Ooey Gooey 

The program change solenoid is drawing a lot of current as shown by the lights dimming when you hit the button Jack. If its not moving far enough to reposition the head to the next track its probably a mechanical issue with old grease. Looking forward to seeing more of this unit!! Take care and all the best, George

Jack you didn't fall of the end of the earth. And the golly woggles didn't get you. Those gooey belts do it every time. Gum up the works especially on 8 track players. Good to see you on Jack. Hope all is well with you and the Mrs.

I've found LA Awesome, a cheap degreaser found at most dollar stores, to be a really great at cleaning up gooey belts. Good job and nice video!

My main man Jack, so good to see you back in action. Was beginning to think you disappeared from the face of the earth. That or Mrs. VEG would not let you come out and play anymore. LOL Interesting video. Those 8 track players were notoriously picky when they were new and given that both the mechanism as well as the media is getting a bit old, well they tend not to perform as well as they once did. Make sure the foam strips are in place on the tapes themselves, these are usually MIA on old carts. The solenoid should move a ratchet type device which makes the head go up and down. That in itself is a pretty funky setup. Oh and those gooey belts, I haven't seen any like that on an 8 track but several on cassette machines. :)

Kooky ooey gooey thang!

The legend has returned :) This thingy looks just like a Matsushita cassette deck, with the cassette mechanism swapped for an 8-track one. And that might actually be what it is. Although I see no Matsushita caps? The nasty purple/blue things. Greets, Wes.

when's the next one? i search for these kind of videos (electronics repair) to find and understand actual problems with units i own in real life so i can fix them and continue using them as they are supposed to be and all this was was a waste of half an hour. if it ain't complete why even post it??? what's the point? and if its really about something other than showing us how to fix something then maybe don't post a video that's formated after one of those that doesn't show what the audience wants. i would have watched watched an hour-long video if you had just finished the dang thing in it, and well its clearly not for consistent uploads (wouldn't have been a good reason anyways; quality is more important than quantity especially for educational vids) because i've been waiting 5 months and you uploaded one video since then. if this is youtube video thing just a game to you and you can't respect the people who watch these videos for what they are supposed to be for instead of just whatever the hell "content" is, don't make the videos. please, before uploading again, just ask yourself: what is it you're even doing here??? unsubbed, but hope you do better in the future and i come back across your channel then when you've actually made it useful/helpful. or just title the videos like those annoying-guy car channels but for electronics "An 8-track recorder???" "I tried to fix an old ronco electric smokeless ashtray (gone wrong)" you know whatever...just never put the make + model number in your title again. that would equally solve the problem of your videos spamming up search results for the model for actually learning to fix the damn things start to finish. those grifters selling poorly made chinese crap tagged as "vintage" on ebay aren't fooling anyone into buying and anyone who is searching those terms is getting pissed off at the spam in their way of finding what they actually want.