as I walk through the trees

 

it works

20 minutes cleaning recording head, general clean and cleaned case bright-work with cif stainless steel gel, reassembled and tested. Tested OK.

Have lead so can record to computer.

All yours Richard.

this is spooky

Well found an e-clip that would fit spindle - just as about to fit and  the lost e-clip decided to drop out of nowhere, spooky or what!! anyway struggled for 10 minutes, as its a bit fiddly, and at last e-clip is fitted. Reassembly, final clean and testing next.

nearly there

20th Sunday 60 minutes. Rubber clutch parts made for supply reel - spindle, clutch assembly and pulley refitted, e-clips refitted without any problems. Gave all the pulley grooves a final clean and fitted all new drive belts. Tested to see if all working, OK except when stopping after fast forward supply tape runs on so will have to check supply clutch but think its the supply reel table not fitting correctly. Made and fitted rubber  pause  brake.
Still have to find e-clip for take up spindle.

Yippee!! no more goo

40 minutes spent removing supply reel clutch and cleaning the goo, the e-clip on pulley was a bit tricky to remove but a small flat bladed screwdriver did the trick.
Phew! removed goo from carpet using cif  also found its a good hand cleaner.

goo goo and more goo

16th Spent about a hour cleaning the goo (sticky old drive belts) off the top plate with meths, terrible stuff this goo gets everywhere, yes its on my carpet and my fingers, still plenty to remove from the pulleys on top plate then its the goo on the underside of plate and the reel clutches.

Will be glad when this phase is over still its painless must be the meths!!

17th 40 minutes cleaning goo from the pulleys on the top deck, next its pulleys underneath.

Another 30 minutes cleaning goo of underside pulleys, also removed take up clutch so even more goo to clean later.
Cannot believe that perished rubber would make such a mess.

18th 30 minutes cleaning goo from the take up clutch after removing lumps of goo with toothpick cleaned parts with cif then washed off with water very effective. Decided to have a change from goo removal so lubricated the pulleys etc. using silicone oil, all nice and free except the transfer pulley (top deck to underside) which is not as free moving as I would like but guess its OK.
Spent 30 minutes making one set of rubber clutch inserts, fiddly job but ended up with something that looks untidy but they fit and appears to work.  
First slight problem, when refitting the e-clip, ping, e-clip with a mind of its own disappeared, never mind I have some somewhere in a box in the garage.