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af024 · 22nd Feb 2021, 10:35 am

Amazingly I had a similar problem and put it down to the capstan belt. It wasn't that the belt was sloppy, it seemed that it was too thin. On face value you might say so what, but I came to the conclusion that it was running too deep into the drive pulley, thereby running in a smaller diameter. If you temporarily and manually nudge the belt to the large diameter of the pulley (ie out of the pulley groove and onto the pulley shoulder), it might just lock (as mine did). Also, I've found that these machines were not brilliant at synching up material recorded by other machines. Have you tried to record something on your machine and playing that back?

22nd Feb 2021, 10:35 am	#19
af024 Octode Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ashby-de-la-Zouch (it's not by the sea) Posts: 1,255	Re: Philips N1500 - can it be tricked? Amazingly I had a similar problem and put it down to the capstan belt. It wasn't that the belt was sloppy, it seemed that it was too thin. On face value you might say so what, but I came to the conclusion that it was running too deep into the drive pulley, thereby running in a smaller diameter. If you temporarily and manually nudge the belt to the large diameter of the pulley (ie out of the pulley groove and onto the pulley shoulder), it might just lock (as mine did). Also, I've found that these machines were not brilliant at synching up material recorded by other machines. Have you tried to record something on your machine and playing that back? __________________ Now where on earth did I remove that from?