I've been in my Garage on this Fall day, first time the heat has been on....putting things away from the Summer, looking things up on the Internet that I don't know about. Up on a shelf in the upper left corner of the Garage, beneath a Radio Shack Cassette Deck, sat my old Spectro Acoustics 500R Amp. Serial Number K0151 After running around different links looking for a Forum, I found this one which had the most information. I bought the Amp many, many years ago when I worked at a place in Battle Creek, Michigan called Southern Michigan Audio.
Some time in the late 70s I had issues with capacitors , I think, and at that time, couldn't find anyone local that wanted to work on it. No I haven't hooked it up since then, I seem to remember a loud buzzing on one channel.
I would like to find a good home for this Amp....someone who could work on it and bring it back to spec. Specifically, I am not looking for $$$ for it, but would be interested in a trade for something that you have that might be "special" to me.....believe it or not, I don't have a working 8Track Player Deck ! ! ! and a friend bequeathed me his collection of Todd Rundgren 8tracks, so it would be fun to be able to play them.
Any one have any thoughts?
Apologies in Advance, if I have posted this in the wrong Discussion Topic.
Hi & Welcome.
I'd be wary that the 8-track will still play, that big coiled endless loop of tape may have "sticktioned" itself into a lump by now. I lost a bunch of reel-reel tapes that way, stored them all nicely, but the layers delaminated.
Quote from: mike90045 on November 02, 2015, 09:28:13 PM
Hi & Welcome.
I'd be wary that the 8-track will still play, that big coiled endless loop of tape may have "sticktioned" itself into a lump by now. I lost a bunch of reel-reel tapes that way, stored them all nicely, but the layers delaminated.
Were they Ampex tapes from the 1970s or early 1980s maybe ?
There was some tape (maybe not all Ampex) that had a problem called "sticky shed" that had the problem that
the oxide would flake off. The "fix", at least so that they could be played once was to properly bake them.
If I knew you were coming, I would have baked a tape !
boB
Sony & Scotch from the mid 70's Still had the stiction problem then, wasn't till after the deck died and they'd be away for another 10 years, I found the baking @ 150F for 4 hr solution. :-[