I have been trying to get my dad's Teac 103 cassette deck working. The tape didn't turn and I successfully changed belt so now the tape moves like it's supposed to. Unfortunately, there's no sound. Any ideas what may be wrong? There are no obvious wires disconnected.
Hi Carol, from what you said, you could make the tape move
On the front of your Teac A103, there are two Instruments, called VUmeters, ask, when you play the tape, do the needles of these vumeters move indicating the presence of sound?
If they move, it would indicate that the tape is being read
If they do not, it may be that you are playing a tape without recording or that the reading head is dirty, with accumulation of debris from the cassette tapes
To clean them, you should use a thin cotton cloth, wet with a little alcohol, open the cassette door and pass it through the upper end of the heads, until they are clean, the head, which reproduces and records the cassettes is the that is in the middle
If all this is done, you get the vumeters to move and nothing comes out, you can try a pair of headphones and connect them to the output on the right
if you hear sounds, check the RCA cables for interconnection with the amplifier
Do the tests I suggest and comment
Indicate to which device you are connecting the cassette output to play
I await your comment
Regards Franco Dosil
Hola Carol, por lo que comentas, has podido hacer que la cinta se mueva
en el frente de tu Teac A103, hay dos Instrumentos, llamados VUmetros, pregunta, cuando reproduces la cinta, las agujas de estos vumetros se mueven indicando presencia de sonido?
Si se mueven, indicaria que se esta leyendo la cinta
Si no lo hacen, puede ser que estas reproduciendo una cinta sin grabacion o que el cabezal de lectura se encuentre sucio, con acumulacion de residuos de las cintas de los cassettes
Para limpiarlos, debes usar un pa?o fino de algodon, mojado con un poco de alcohol, abrir la puerta de la cassettera y pasarlo por el extremo superior de los cabezales, hasta que queden limpios, el cabezal, que reproduce y graba los cassettes es el que se encuentra en el medio
Si hecho todo esto, logras que se muevan los vumetros y no sale nada, puedes probar con un par de auriculares y conectarlos en la salida que se encuentra a la derecha
si escuchas sonidos, revisa los cables RCA de interconexion con el amplificador
Has las pruebas que te sugiero y comenta
Indica a que aparato estas conectando la salida de la cassetera, para reproducir
Espero tu comentario
Saludos Franco Dosil
https://www.vintageshifi.com/repertoire-pdf/pdf/telecharge.php?pdf=Teac-A-105-Service-Manual.pdf
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All Aiwas are prone to this problem. The doors are a real pain and easily give up the ghost. I have 2, both probmatic in this direction.
I have spoken to others about this problem. Seems no easy fix.
Have you in your case, tried leaving and old tape in the tape part of your unit . The noise you hear, usually starts when tape unit area doors are about to pack a wobbly. Unless under warrenty, proberly,
not worth getting fixed. It seems something gets weak in the activation part and get a mind of its own. Very common after about 3 yrs of ownership. All the best: jamz
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Hello,
some weeks ago I got this really impressive deck (Teac Z 7000) from a colleague, and found the same problem. I fixed it, and the fix is not too complicated. It´s the potentiometers that do fail. All pots are from the same manufacturer (Alps) and construction. The problem is that the wisher is broken away from the holding plastic and will loose contact completely. You can check that with a normal ohmmeter: You´ll find the total resistance over the outer terminals but endless resistance from one of the outer terminals to the middle wisher contact. The values are: 100 kOhm linear for each of the upper left pots (fader,space), 2x22kOhm pos.log. for the lower left pot (phone volume). So, what does a broken wisher at the "fade in" pot do? The Recorder "thinks" that You selected an "endless" fade in time, and the result is : no record level. You can do an easy "quick and dirty" fix just to see if that´s the problem: Hold- or better solder- a say 47kOhm resistor in parallel to the conducted potentiometer terminals and try to record.
4 of 5 pots have been defective in my deck, and I´ve replaced them with standard types from my local electronic supplier (Conrad electronic, has a shop in Frankfurt/Main). Well, the new parts didn´t fit perfectly, I used a file to get them in (not visible from outside). Also I lost the possibility of pushing the knobs in and out, but that is not a really problem.
I assume this fix might also help owners of the Teac Z-6000 and Z-5000, which- most probably- use the same type of potentiometers.
This text was written by Boris Witke, Kelsterbach (near Frankfurt/Main), Germany. E-Mail:
[email protected] Please tell me if You were successful, possibly we get lucky users of these really fascinating machines.
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