I got the 8-track player working correctly! It just needed more oil to lubricate the roto-tweebulator mechanism and a good workout.

Engineers: What features would you like to see on this equipment? Director: Yes

The buttons on the cassette deck look insanely satisfying to press.

This gadget is the coolest thing that I've ever seen. An analog tuner and a digital frequency reader. Also, this remembers me to the older stereo systems that brings out an astronishing sound quality.

6:50 -How old are you? -Im 40 -Ok, terrific... Never ask to a woman her age...

23 minutes hearing a detailed analysis of a 40 y/o Craig all-in-one stereo? Priceless!

I think Techmoan will love this machine ;)

5:18 - 5:26 That Ashens reference. :)

Surprisingly well made. Compare the insides of some modern China smart bluetooth wonder box and you'll cry

I like that it has a tape out and aux in. Open-reel anyone. And to use a magnetic cart turntable on phono in, just use a pre-amp. I wish I had this device. The AM and FM sounded good.

The DAK ads and catalog was very creative with their descriptions of the products that they sold. I ordered a few items from DAK in the 1980s and early 1990s. The mic inputs are a nice feature, but there is no record level controls, so I assume it uses some type of auto record level. For my cassette decks, I ordered a multi-pack of belts from China for super cheap / free shipping via Ebay. You may find the right size drive belt for this unit in such a multi-pack.

It is always nice to see old equipment working so well. I wonder how much of todays electronics will be working in forty years time.

You got a lot of NPR stations in your area. In the US nearly everything below 91.9 FM is NPR. This was made in Japan, that's why it's lasted so long. Despite the likely 5-6 inch speakers, the sound quality ain't bad.

"You will repeat in your mind... everything your hear on this tape..." Thanks Kevin for reenergizing my brain! If I am not mistaken BrainStorm Technologies were specializing in psychological aid products and these tapes are used for purposes of treating patients with schizophrenia and depression. My sister would appreciate this tape since she is undergoing a therapy for schizophrenia. I'll never hesitate to accept your generous open offer to get the BrainStorm tape!

I love the '70s styling, I don't know why. I have an old Telefunken radio from the '70s. It also has all the radio stations written on a display

OMG it's self contained GORGEOUSNESS!!!!

Clint from LGR would love this!

A solid system - love all the metal dials and switches. The speakers also sound pretty good. Love how the 8-track ultra-smooth eject is the complete opposite to the super-fast cassette door!

Just grabbed a 2500A from my neighbor's trash. Nice to see these still hanging out.

Been watching for years. Love your attention to detail. Nice vintage item!

Here we have, retrochad such a kool voice

this is the type of content I use youtube for.

I'm in love with those dials.

I wish RetroChad would come back, his videos represent my childhood, I'm 19 now.

The 8 track sounds great. The audio transferred well between your camera microphone and this stereo. Thank you for posting.

I love the detailed reviews you do, so much attention to details that you see rarely in KZfaq video's. Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Thanks and keep up the excellent work!

The only thing that this clock radio is missing is having a mechanical flip clock to replace the led clock.

Great Ashens reference !

The mechanism problem looks to me as the metal lever is slipping over the plastic wheel of the second program. I would temporarily try to attach a small plastic part underneath the metal lever to slightly extend it downwards. That way it should be unable to slip over the plastic wheel. A more crude way would be to just bend it, which I wouldn't recommend. Nice unit!

Beautiful piece of kit! I would say it would make a good clock radio except that it doesn't have an alarm function and if you put it on a nightstand, you wouldn't have space for much else. I was born in November of 1979 and remember when everything was styled like this - woodgrain case with black or brushed aluminum fascia and big, chunky knurled knobs and switches. The fact that this has an aux input means that with a BT adapter or Chromecast audio plugged into the rear jacks, it would still be a perfectly practical thing to have around today.

Nice! I have been waiting for about a video on this thing! This is so cool. Crazy that Tanashin of all manufactureres made the very last 8-track drive, as well as the very last compact cassette drives right now...

This is the same machine that it was used during the last day of WPLJ from two months ago. Nice!

I picked up the Hanimex 1000 version at the Goodwill Outlet (bin store) for a whopping 49 cents about a year ago. It site on my workbench/desk. It only had audio out of one side. I cleaned the 8-track mechanism thoroughly and replaced a few caps and it works great. With the aux-input and decent-ish built in speaker and amp, it works nicely to test cassette decks as I am servicing them.

Man. Your videos are so good and satisfying to watch

Thank you for this video! Great edited and recorded!

You are lucky to have an AM oldies station. All I have is sports, talk, and ethnic.

It's a pretty decent and well made unit, even useful today. Digital readout is great, better than a dial and long before digital tuning became commonplace.

That Brain-Storm cassette is CREEPY !!

Picked up one of these with both tape decks not in great shape especially the Cassette deck which was a nightmare to fix. All the drive wheels for the reel transports use rubber idler tires and on mine the Play and FF tires were hardened and cracked. So then began the painful task of finding 2 replacement tires (Rew one was OK). No more local electronics stores, so ebay was the source and not from the USA of course but China or Eastern Europe and a month long wait to get it. Tire size was an oddball size but got something close that seemed to get the reels turning again. Then lots of Wow and flutter and pinch roller was hardened/glazed so had to replace that which wasn't easy to access. Worse, was trying to remove the shaft pin WHICH WAS RIVETED IN on one end; I couldn't believe it. I tried tapping it out, wouldn't budge. I ended up bending up the loose end, replacing the roller, and bending it back down! The roller hole I had was too small so I took the rubber part off and slipped it onto the original hub. Cassette plays better but still with a bit of Wow and flutter. What an ordeal though! As for the 8 Track with these Mitsumi track change mechanisms, you really need to disassemble the track change part by removing the C-clip first and sliding everything off the shaft. MAKE SURE YOU MAKE A DIAGRAM SHOWING HOW ALL THE PARTS FIT TOGETHER AND THE ORDER THEY CAME OFF AND GO ON. Take lots of pictures too. Careful of the springs. Clean off all the old grease, relubricate every sliding, turning piece. Glue the cracks in the head frame while it is disassembled. Good luck with this unit!

That is a beautiful piece of equipment!!!

Damn, your FM band is really packed with channels over there. And the reception sound outstanding.

My workplace has one of these in their prop library collection.

I would hazard a guess and say the beeping tracks on that Brain Storm tape are for controlling some sort of visual stimulation device. Perhaps something like a VR headset with multicolored lights inside that are pulsed at varying frequencies along with the audible prompts in such a way as to encourage certain patterns of brainwaves and induce a state of suggestibility for the wearer... To try and make all those nice, self-affirming statements embed themselves in the wearer’s subconscious. It’s the sort of thing that could be easily done with a modified Walkman sized tape player, for example.

re: that red cassette. search Google for "MindTech2000" looks like it was an audio/visual hypnosis machine. Company is still in business

I love how the whole 8 track tape is very funky disco

Whatever you call it, My life is not complete without this!!!

At 8:45 "You will enjoy repairing and restoring vintage electronics and making videos of this activity. Your viewers will enjoy watching your videos and emulate your actions." Hello from across the sound in Connecticut. Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless..

The AM/PM indicator while setting the time is probably programmed for the models with the alarm option. It's probably disabled in this model since there is no alarm clock functionality, and having an AM/PM indicator is pointless.

Sounds surprisingly good. Brain-Storm: "You will be creative" ;-) Mod it, find some speakers that fits the size and style of unit and add a handle on top, 70's boombox is born! Could be nice.

I wish you had more subscribers; I like your videos.

Neat combo unit! Some day we may meet up in some thrift store, for I too visit such places and have to take these kind of items home to explore. As a matter of fact I get a bit of a thrill out of repairing them.

I love that look. I've got a woodgrain Sony radio in a similar form factor I got from my grandfather.

If only they'd have put as much thought into letting the 8-track and cassette transports start up and stabilize as they did with the smooth eject... This still seems like it'd make for a pretty credible compact stereo system, even today.

That tape most likely steered a mind machine. You put on dark glasses with red LEDs in it and they should set your brain into a special state. Was a hype around 1990. The device most likely looked like a large walkman.

That thing is very late '70s! I like how the tuner works. My Clarinette 101 has the same 8 track, and cassette mechanism in it, it even pauses in FF! I never thought to do that before, but I tried it just now. haha. It's just too bad it doesn't have an alarm function; that would be good for recording radio shows when you're not home. In fact, why don't cassette decks have timers the way VCRs always did?

THANK YOU for the info on the phono input. That explains why my Realistic SA-10 doesn't work with my turntables. I didn't know phono inputs used to just be essentially line-level.

I had almost the exact same stereo that my dad gave me as a kid in the 90s. I played with it all the time - recording songs off the radio and listening to them on there. I miss that thing.

Quirks and features, ultimate crossover videos on this channel.

*I remember Craig, they were a HUGE value oriented electronic company back in the 1970s until the mid 80s or so.*

Nice little bedroom system

The same mechanism was used in my grandparents Rising STR505. It's most notable feature is it will start to play slowly and then wind up speed. And not to forget the fast forward pause trick too. BTW, if you ever come across a SONY HST-89, that would be a great piece of equipment to review. It was built like a tank, all metal.

Ok, so I'm 21. I really like the look of the dark woodgrain and silver face. I've built a stereo system comprised around a 72' Kenwood Kr6200. My whole room has been designed around it...lol

I miss those piano key tape players. Great video 🙂

I had one of these, without the 8 track player, made by Craig, back in the early 80s. It was quite cool back then. I don’t remember what happened to it.

That's a rather nice piece of hardware! You don't see anything built this well today, and it sounds pretty darned good through the internal speakers. I was surprised to see aux and phono connections and really surprised to see rec-out connections.

You got hypnotized at 8:38 didn't you.

1:43 I'm sure it would've also been sold in Australia under the "Hanimex" brand. 5:18 I'm watching your video on my TV while working, so I thought you decided to listen to Ashens on the radio… 8:38 That "Brain Storm" tape really reminds me of the "Hypnosis Downloads" tapes I have on my e-reader (which can play audio files)

11:40 - YESSSSS! The "Andy's Birthday" 8-track makes another appearance! 3:48 - Is that the Amy Grant cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi?" Man, I miss hearing that version on the radio. 7:22 - Selena! NOICE! That's actually a nice-looking machine. I wouldn't mind having it on a shelf somewhere in the Man Cave cranking out my John Denver and Beach Boys 8-tracks (or even my bootleg Mariah Carey 8-track, or WDRC-FM's Top 100 of 1973 - I could totally see myself cranking up Three Dog Night's "Shambala" or The Rolling Stones' "Angie" on this beauty). You're right about Content ID. It now notices 3-second clips and even sped-up clips. VERY annoying. OMG I remember DAK catalogs... My grandmother bought me a 4-pad drum machine, I can't remember the model off the top of my head and can't find it through Google... I still have it, it's in the same box as my Yamaha DD-5 drum machine (which I was able to find on Google while searching for the other one).

1:31, oh dankpods would love to see that this is a CRAIG.

Very interesting piece of audio equipment

Take the head actuator assembly apart (take pictures) check for dried lubrication and dirt, also check for any damaged parts where the solenoid hits the actuator. Re lubricate the assembly with a lite lube, not too much . Resemble and test. You'll likely have to perform a head realignment, which requires a 8 track alignment tape for best results.. I've repaired many 8 track and cassette tape decks in my early electronic tech days. Good luck!

I had this when i was a kid. My first stereo but mine did not have the built in speakers. Exact same layout but I'm not sure if it was a Craig or perhaps Soundesign? But it did have all of these features in the exact same layout.

These AM/FM/Cassette/8-Track one-piece systems showed up fairly often at local thrift stores until quite recently. It seems like collectors and flippers are snapping these up. Heck, I was lucky enough last week to snap up out of the blue sorting bin sitting on the sales floor, before the bin items were put onto the shelves by staff) was a very nice 45-year-old Realistic transistor radio. That proves that the best thrift store buys come to those who are in the right place at the right time. What's commonplace today for thrift store electronics, at least in my area of the world, are standalone DVD players, 5-disc CD players, "ihome" docking stations with built-in speakers, and multi-channel dolby-surround home-theatre audio receivers.

AAAH these New-Age tapes .... Hillarious ... Besides nice presentation

This is amazing!!!

I see similar systems like this all the time at thrift stores, usually branded Citizen, Candle, Viking, and even some old Sears models. Always thought about getting one but they all seem to be in pretty rough shape. Nice to see one working here though, that cassette mechanism looks like it could survive an air raid

How do you find stuff like that in your thrift stores? Here in the UK all we have in thrift stores are old people's clothes and James last LPs.

it's built like a tank inside.. all that metal

This thing looks so cool! I want one lol

Oh please do publish the whole BrainStorm tape; it sounds chill AF

Awesome find!

Was that RetroChad heard at the end of the video? God I miss his videos.

That looks awesome haha. i want one

Great Video and a tour of this glorified clock radio! 23:19 The voice of Retrochad! (KZfaqr)

My thrift stores never have stuff like this, just clothes and old books.

Probably in the late 70s and 80s, Tanashin was probably the only company still making 8 track transports. Just like they are now, the only company still making cassette transports.

One of my old neighbors gave me a similar unit. I think it was made by Citizen Electronics. It had pretty much all the same features like red LED digital clock and both cassette and 8-track except no built in speakers and different dimensions, it was about the size of a VCR and not so small and boxy. It was actually pretty practical, you could record tapes from 8-tracks.

Great video. Problem is watching this in bed, listening to the self help tape nearly sent me into a peaceful slumber zzzzzzzz. 😀

Recently picked up a Hanimex-branded PS 1000 on Goodwill. Too bad the clock part doesn't work but at least everything else works after cleaning the pots. It's gonna be perfect for an all-new cartridge comparison video.

Drew A Kaplan.... DAK. He used to write all the text in his catalogs. Wonder if he's still around? Would be kind of old now, I'd think

It's a craig Dankpods fans are gonna freak

The noises on that brain storm tape remind me of commodore 64 tapes and they also remind me of a time I put a tape for a big bird storybook player in a regular stereo and it had voices on one channel and data sounds on the other. I figured out that you can turn the balance control to one side and you can just listen to the voices. This was when I was a kid maybe 6 or 7.

8 track=best track

Really cool unit!

5:18 I hear a wild Ashens!

04:33 - This is truly the 70's in a box, even has it's own mind and plays 70's from the radio. :D 05:40 - That's just fucked up. :T 06:50 - Haha! 11:15 - Gotta love the "Do not use while..." text there. Do not drive while we are updating your mind. xD (I bet the signals are in reverse on the "B" side as you play them.)

Hanimex?! They made the first videogame console our house had: a Pong knock-off!

enjoy all of your videos i have similar interest in electronics . Trevor S. in Honolulu, Hawaii

Loved the bit with Techmoan

The difference between the aux and ceramic (high- level) input would likely be the RIAA Eq curve applied to the phono input and the aux input is running naked.