Sony TC540 Reel To Reel Mechanism Service 

Thank you for your video! I bought a Sony TC-255 that had a frozen "rocker arm" like this one- the heating trick was great, and I cleaned out the hub by running a drill bit in it to clean it out! NOW IT WORKS, and I didn't waste $150 :-) (The idler wheels are in great shape on mine :-) )

Love the reel to reel videos! Love all the others too!

I love watching your'e vids and too an engineer, but first 10 mins of this gives me stomach ache for laughing and what make it worse is you take it in your stride, but yes fantastic and you always get to the point and don't bs thank you

Pinch rollers and other rubber wheels get hard with age, I remanufactured my own pinch roller with multiple layers of rubber and Sika flex glue.also rebuilt rubberised wheels in my TEAC bought to replace my TC 630 when it's right channel died.

The video help me repair a unit I picked up for $50. However, when you pulled off and broke that small black capstan part it allowed the flywheel to sit back hard against the rear panel mounted bearing (assisted by the spring). After a dozen tapes the rear bearing wore away and the flywheel now rests against the rear. I have to lean the recorder forward to 'free' the flywheel. Keep the videos coming.

another excellent video. very interesting and informative.Cheers

You upload many videos... I like it :-)

you are a very experience engineer

Nice!! You're amazing at disassembly/reassembly I must say. I could take it all apart but putting back again, I don't know??...LOL

Thanks! Super helpful!

still watching but wow you're a real magician

Great work as always. ^0^

No joke, repaired a smoking toaster that was smoking and would not eject the toast. A mouse was trapped and it STANK. Broken neck and burnt hair, lol.

In 1973, a customer brought in a Heathkit mono 40 watt basic amp, he had put a cut 10 penny nail in the fuse holder, the power xformer basically melted.

You amaze me 12volt. How do you remember where each screw and washer goes on reassembly. You take so many off and you never seem to have any bits left over. What is the secret?Always informative and interesting videos, thanks.

Repaired more of those old Sonys than I can shake a stick at. Just repaired a TC-230.

i bought a tape player inside was 5 bulets a toffy and 7 jumbo toothpicks

I just got a Sony TC-155 and it's got similar components and parts to this model. Mine played fine for 1 and then 1/2 of a 3" reel and then it just all of a sudden in the middle of playing bogged down to a crawl. There was a hot oil/grease smell throughout the entire time I was running it. The motor was scalding hot when I took the cabinet off. What could be the problem? It had no audio hum or any bad sounds the whole time it was playing and sounded very nice, then it just went kaput and slowed down.

Did you get all of the old lube cleaned out of the sticky mechanism? If not, that sticky problem may come back...

I wonder if you have a video on how to replace just the belts. My dad has one of these and I want to help him to do that.