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For Expert Village, this is KGB Studios, Seattle. I'm Kurt the chief engineer. Welcoming you
to yet another session on 4-track reel-to-reel. All right so now that we've got all the screws
undone here, we're going to actually remove this panel, as you can see. And we'll make
sure that it doesn't touch, good electronic practice. Under here, as you can see here,
I'm turning it, as you can see, and the motor up here is turning as well, up on the top
of your screen. That this is the actual capstan and there's a round belt there that you will
need to do some restoration to. So, this piece here is the flywheel, this piece right here
where the pointer is. Then right up in that area if you can see it, is a round belt. That
broke back in 1993. You have two basic choices of which, to repair the flywheel. Which is
a common problem within reel-to-reel 4-track machines. It controls this particular piece
and the flywheel is a counterbalance of course. But you have two ways of replacing it. You
can either take this motor off. Which you can see the 4 screws here. You can take the
4 screws off. Or you can take the 2 screws off here and replace the belt that way. So,
it's a little difficult to get in and you have to remove a number of things, but the
belt itself was replaced and the deck is in good working order. Kay, the other part, this
is a different view that's done in the service manual so you can clearly see the round belt
on the flywheel, which is right here and then the capstan motor there. That's called the
exploded view and this is the practical view right here. Where you have the capstan motor
and the take-up motor. Join us again in the next section, where we'll be talking about
oiling these motors so that they perform for years. As in this case we've had it for over
30 years. On Expert Village, I'm Kurt at KGB Studios. See you next time.