@Omar Marco Get a life marco, get a life, because girlfriends are strictly for losers. They have to fallow you, not you them.

What a kool tea v850 cassette deck

What a kool. Teac. V850 cassette deck

Nutzy Nutzy yip, baid and switch central. Future shop wasn't much better.

This one is a good one.

I watched on a smartphone and it sounded like a ceiling fan was on low speed and caused different acoustics in the room I've had that experience with tones and ceiling fans on low before. I couldn't see the belt waving (phone screen just too small) if Dave says it was a cheap Chino belt as the cause I definitely don't doubt it. 😄👍👌.

Visions are no better. Krazy krazy would have one unit on the shelf and one in a box. I spent 3 hours in there to wrangle out a 333.33 VHS hifi machine. GE branded Panasonic 2 head hifi. Get this it was so stripped down 2 heads instead of 4 as all the other hifi machines had, 14 position varactor tuner and no stereo tuner just mono. I didn't care i was just using it as a duplicator machine and i ran that machine doing dubs until i wore the thing out. I chucked it years ago. Wish I kept it. Would have made a great repair video. KK was in the news. Them and future shop were always grabbing media coverage for deceptive business practices. Future shop was bought out by best buy.

@@12voltvids There were (and still are to an extent) so many shady electronics and computer stores. One computer store here used to buy insurance damaged computers and re-sell them (with a sticker to prevent you from opening without voiding your warranty). Computers that had been in literal fires, with smoke damage inside. A 2-head Hi-Fi VCR would make a very cool video! Not a very common machine, I'm still on the lookout for one.

the motors in these were horrendous, i instantly replace them with sankyo

I missed it as well....

He probably kicked it up the ass cause its always in the way

@@CrashPilot1000 funny how we all noticed it..lol..im not massive pet lover but somehow it just works.lol

What usually happens is one deck gets the crap played out of it and the other one is barely used, so one is worn out.

@@12voltvids Thanks for answering. You're the best!

You be talking Nakamichi right.

@@12voltvids he didn't sell Naks. As I said: SOme compaNY :D

Damn Sony, I know what you're taking about. The Naks with DD were quite OK, the regular belted ones, well I'm not crazy about. JVC DD deck motors are awesome, very stable.

@@svenschwingel8632 Ya I know, rhymes with boney, but I saw a few NAK that were not set up right.

@@12voltvids with Naks, it was especially sad. Given their price tags, one could have definitely expected a decent mechanical factory alignment. It's just no fun when a 3000$ unit mangles up tapes because the tape is being dragged along a tape guide and crumpled on the pinch roller. But to be fair: it wasn't just Sony, it was also Pioneer, Onkyo and others.

These guys would have stock. 1 to show and 1 to go. Every day. They mak have had 50 in the back, but only 1 went out front and they would run the ads "2 or 3 per store" in the ad and then when you walked in they were always sold out, but they had another 2 the next day.

Yes @jason - my parents had a Dwektron 26” TV and a Salora VHS deck from Colourvision - brands never heard of! Weirdly I later worked for another company owned by Bernard of Colourvision called Hessy’s music, where I did repairs on music gear...

I am not even familiar with that model number. I would probably know it if I saw it though.

Pause button works fine.

Problem is sourcing these belts. Has become more difficult in the last couple of years. Even when Main electronics was around it was hard to get belts, as he had to order in huge quanaties, and when the demand dried up he stopped ordering them in. Then the owner went and got himself the big C and the end was in sight. His son shut down the business shortly after his dad passed away.

@@12voltvids yeah i have the same problem , can't find belt anymore no one sell it in my country

It kept poppiung apart and I didn't have any krazy glue handy, so a hot soldering iron fixed it.

@@12voltvids ah ok

It is a pretty good deck actually.

Left channel recorded on edge of tape. Head is probably wearing.

@@12voltvids thanks!!!!! I'll look into that thank you

@@12voltvids your comment pointed me in the right direction of a head problem so It came to my mind that I had not checked the azimuth, and it was completely misaligned... I have no az test tape I made it by ear but now is working like 99% better than before thanks to your help, thank you very much!!!

This is the way.

We had liquidation world and another one that I totally forget the name that sold refurbished stuff. I bought a Toshiba DVD recorder from them once.

If you're asking me for an opinion on what type of cassette deck to buy, I would say don't buy a cassette deck in 2022! If you must buy one find the cheapest one that you can find because they're all old and spending a lot of money on one does not guarantee it's going to last any length of time. You have rubber parts that are going to be worn out rubber idler tires clutches belts pinch rollers all kinds of parts that you cannot replace so spending a lot of money on something ancient like this is in many cases just throwing your money away. I don't want to sound negative about tape but I'm just being real. These machines now are 40 years old and they weren't designed to last 40 years in fact most of them had a life expectancy when they were manufactured of three to five years. First thing stay off eBay unless you want to get ripped off. Check out your Facebook marketplace or your local thrift store. people get an idea when they look on eBay that these vintage tape decks are worth a small fortune, unfortunately eBay has been a cesspool for money laundering for the last number of years we're vintage stereo equipment has been selling for Ludacris amounts of money, but they really weren't being sold it was just criminals advertising and selling non-existent product to their associates so that their dirty money could change hands like legitimate sale and become clean money. Unfortunately this practice gave other people ideas and convinced buyers and sellers that this is what this equipment was worth and then real equipment started listing and going for huge amounts due to this artificial influence. They're not worth what people on eBay think. Unfortunately even the thrift stores are getting in on this because a year ago I was seeing some really nice old vintage tape decks selling for 15 to $20 and now the thrift stores are asking $100. Still a lot cheaper than the three to four hundred dollars that some people think that these old relics are worth on ebay.

@@12voltvids heard wow , the money laundering thing is mind blowing . I will be going to the thrifts 👍

@@12voltvids thank you for the response

@@12voltvids i guess i got “lucky” getting the tape player i got now , it was from some guy who definitely had a creepy obsession with Nakamichi tape players . I don’t think i will be buying a 3 head off eBay any time soon . I’m sure thrifts around me have tape players for cheap

@@salwilk558 saw a documentary about it a few years ago.

It was a few years ago when I ordered one for my DA40 out of California. Don't know if they are still around.

Yes I know about it. It is nothing more than a camera focused on the slide plane. No different than what I did. They looked great and no additional equipment to buy. I was doing a slide to digital for an old friend that I went to school with, so not like I am making anything from it.

Sure will

You mean to clean and get rid off the polished spot on the capstan where it contacts the tape ? I noticed later decks have capstans that are not shinny - supposedly it reduces w&f and creates better contact with tape surface.

@@pliedtka A nice shiny capstan weight will make the belt grip twice as good and there wont be any slippage, i dont mean the shaft itself m8 i mean the weight behind it.

@@Synthematix Flywheel.

@@12voltvids Yup

I did a video on making that one.

Its the electric motor oil, not the general purpose oil.

3 in 1 works until it turns brown and gets sticky gummed up as Dave says, 3 in 1 was a terrible formula.

It was Krazy Krazy with a K and we had other names for them like Nutzy Nutzy. They were out west here too, and they were real bastards. Really screwed up the market and margins for the other dealers. They would get into price wars with A&B sound, and were liekly one of the reasons that A&B went under. A&B's policy was they would beat anyone elses price, and KRAZY would then beat their price by 20% of the difference even if it meant selling something at a loss, just to get the deal. All the shops hated them, because of their deceptive business practices. The guy I worked for was very blunt when he warned all of us, that if he ever found out that we have supported that store that we would be looking for another job. So I went there and kept my mouth shut. I only ever bought 2 things there. My Teac v850 like the one in this video and a cheap 2 head GE hifi VCR that I had to pry out of the shop. I took it as a challenge to get it out of there, and the salesman followed me out to my car trying to convince me to trade it back for a much more expensive model. After Krazy closed Visions opened. They are still there,and much of the Krazy staff ended up with Visions. I used to go in there to kick tires. No intent to buy anything just see what was new. Haven't been there is over a year or for that matter any other electronics shop. Only to best buy once to buy a new camera for the channel, and I like the old one better.

Haha. I hear you. Never once set foot in Krazy Krazy myself. The newspaper ads were so ridiculous and the following days all you would see is correction notices. I bought my first stuff from a company in Wpg called Advance Electronics back in '76 and keep going back to this day. They are still around, and they always looked after you with price and service. Never crazy with flyers, but when you were in the store the sales reps looked after you. BTW, enjoy your videos, and the no BS chat! Keep doing them!

I get a fair bit of work that way.

Should get my silver play button soon.

@@12voltvids I'm the one that sent you the email about the silver Yamaha K-520

@@12voltvids I hope you get your play button! :D

Gets the job done. All that is available.

Autofocus on camera was hunting a bit at the beginning. Nothing for it to lock on.

Go listen to last one where I am off center and you will hear it.

It's listed on my main KZfaq page.

Same idiots that sign my emai address up to a bunch of spam.