Now working! No tape chewing, just beautiful music. It is incredibly fast—and safe—to rewind!

Thank you Jeff! Same address here as well! But I think you could safely unsolder it! Its failure upon my machine was in fact due to a (factory!) short between two components, which in the long run made the chip decide that enough is enough! Now I wonder how we will align everything correctly. We don't have the special tools (nobody on the planet

[quote user="burantek"] Jacques, would you like the MC1437P? Anybody/anything else? [/quote] Oh yes please! A Happy New Year!

Just as I figured... Join the broken bits with cyano, then sand broken tracks and make solder bridges or better still, cut small pieces of copper wire to make the bridges more reliable. I'd also glue plastic pieces on each side of the PCB to render it more rigid. Good luck!

Would anyone have a spare MC1437P please? It's the PPM op-amp. An oscilloscope monitoring showed one of the two op-amps is fried... The signal comes in but never gets out. Plus there's 9V at its output... Or what would an acceptable substitute be? I've been listening to some piano... the notes are incredibly stable. When you look at the

Funny, it looks like a meccano or lego belt...

By the way, when the counter belt is out, depress commands during five seconds to cancel auto-stop!

Things like that do happen... But don't worry, superglue does bakelite quite well, and it WILL be fixed. That PCB looks very fragile indeed, and worse one side just stupidly hangs above empty space. I guess it broke each side of the hole... Do Martin's belt fit well? Enjoy your meal and have a nice New Year's Eve!

Yeah well that's why I bought the service manual! The real McCoy, not a scan!

Well done so far! Here's a video showing how the spools work.