It has a window, power is insulated and had heat so equipment won't freeze. I operated my video conversion business out of here when I was building the house 22 years ago.
My dad kept that receiver secret and never used it. Even though he was the sole earner he was NOT in charge of the money. Mom was, and she balanced that cheque book to the penny. Even though my dad had a good job, a longshoreman we never seemed to have any money to spare. Turned out he was looking after his little sister paying her bills ect when her dead beat alcoholic husband pretty much bankrupted her)After seeing first hand what alcohol can do it's no wonder I don't drink. Anyway he blew a bunch of cash, probably 500 bucks on this in 1969 and my mother had a fit. I remember when he bought it as I was with him, and I remember when she made him return it. It just never got returned. I have had it since the early 90's when I found it under the house, and did enjoy it for awhile, and I am hanging on to it as it has sentimental value, and well, It's a Macintosh. What can I say. The most sought after brand around. That's why I am not using it. I don't want to run up hours as it's all original.
@@12voltvids I still have My fathers PE turntable and Sony TC-366 Tape deck He bought in the Netherlands about 1970. from the BX at AFCENT in Brunssum . I lost the Sansui 4000 in the House fire 4 Years ago, I'd like to find another one.
They had not even dreamed of head cleaners at this point. The half load is for the tape counter. There js a separate control track reader head that reads the control track on ff and rew so the tape counter will work.
yeah sticky shed is a bit like capacitors. some tapes does, while a lot don't even after decade of bad storage and get mouldy, but binder is still solid. all in all tapes seems more reliable than consumer recordable CD/DVD for exemple, and btw still in use for data archiving (LTO for exemple). and i would even say tapes are very likeky to retain content longtime more than flash memory in long term cold storage. do you know why umatic tend to show sometime "edge echo" on some tapes? i heard it was a frequent thing, but the reason seems a bit unclear.
I have hundreds of cdr disks and dvd-r that were recorded over 25 years ago and they all play perfect. Yes there were garbage discs produced by companies like princo. Also sold by others namely D.I.S.C. (digital information storage corp) that self erased because princo were shit. I have dozens of gold kao discs and they are all still perfect. I got my first cd burner in 88 or 89. The first year they came out. Still have an original hp cdrw and its still usable and has files on it. Don't knock optical media from bad information and there is a ton. If stored away from light and heat and not physically damaged any good optical media will last a very long time. Unfortunately cheap crap discs that should never have been allowed to have been sold created headaches for some and then gave all the good brands a bad reputation. Its like saying a Lada is a bad car therefore all cars are bad. There were plenty of good discs and bad ones. BDR discs will last a lifetime because the data is stored in a metal layer that is physically burned. So will the MDisk DVD discs. Dye based well I have dvds over 25 years old that are fine today. How much longer will they last is anyone's guess. I copied them all at 12 years and will make a copy of the copy at some point. Thing is once on DVD you can copy that copy of a copy and it never degrades. Can't do that with analog tape.
Those Ampex tapes were crap. I have loads that went bad, some were brand new and never used. BASF chrome tapes were another disaster, but with those it wasn't sticky shed, it was leeching white powder all over the tape path. 3M tapes were variable, though I never had trouble with the color plus range. Old Sony tapes fro the 70's occasionally suffer sticky shed, but the ones made since the 80's seem to hold up pretty well. I am amazed you can play an SP tape on that machine. Try that in a PAL low-band machine and it's totally unwatchable.
I don't remember. Most VCRs are simple, because when they get too involved people just scrap them. Always have. PV1730 are always a headache. Thats why mine sits in the storage unit. Some day I might get on it again. They were a real piece of work. Direct drive motors for everything, tension feedback up the kazoo, and they were really nasty to work on. All those old ones were. JVC, lives up to their reputation, JUNK VERY CHEAP. Man I hated those with a passion.
Apparently the head chips can be replaced and the protrusion can be set by eye saw this video awhile back. Is it the proper way no but it appears to work well enough. Whether it's worth the effort or not is another story. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g0Nlez5zvUM.html
@@12voltvids pity the chips weren't available rather than the drum and chip BUT that's easy to say cos you've got to consider the surface of the drum is still usable before even replacing a chip THEN if you've go the patience to adjust the dihedhral ajustment IF you're lucky to have the bonus of a manual on hand to do that adjustment perfectly!
@@12voltvids I wasn't completely sure but that's what I thought. those were popular here in the early 70`s I think I can remember our cable station having those they use to televise parades and public events here and they would use the cable system to hook the cameras to and feed the signal back to their studio to those U - Matics us kids went down to the cable company one day and they give us a tour of the studio and let us be camera men pretty cool then ......
