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Need help - cassette deck plays REALLY quiet
Weissbier:
Please forgive my incredible lack of knowledge in this area, but what exactly is a tape monitor switch? Do you mean the selector switch that toggles between tape, radio, and phono? I’m sorry for my ignorance and I really appreciate everyone’s help!
Sir Thrift-a-Lot:
I guess I do. I'm not actually familiar with that unit, but most of the time there is a push button to play back the tape deck. It is so you can compare what is being played by the source with what is coming out of the tape deck. In an all in one like this there may not even be such a switch. Can you give close up pics of the controls, big enough to read them?
Weissbier:
I just removed the cover and sprayed electronic contact cleaner into several areas of the cassette mechanism. It was moderately gunked up. Getting rid of all the gunk made all of the cassette buttons operate smother, and this somehow fixed the problem. So ultimately I don’t know what the actual problem was, but spraying the cleaner did the trick. Many thanks to all of you. I really appreciate it.
Sir Thrift-a-Lot:
Excellent. With old stuff, cleaning is usually a good place to start. Do you know about DeOxit?
If it made the buttons smoother, perhaps the mechanism wasn't moving the tape head entirely forward into position before. That would certainly decrease output.
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