stonecutter2
New Member
Hi, folks!
First of all, I've been reading a LOT of posts here, and this place seems like a huge wealth of knowledge, and lots of great members!
I just bought a Teac A-2340R from someone at work, for $50. Does anyone know about when these things were made? It had been sitting for a long time not getting used since they got rid of their receiver. I'm 34, and I've never messed with a reel to reel, but it looked like something interesting to play music with.
It came with the Teac dust cover, A-2340R manual in near perfect condition, Teac accessories box w/ a little box containing a cleaning wand and bottle of fluid (empty), rubber feet with a white dust on them (seem unused), oil (in a ziploc thankfully, it leaked), and a little thing of splicing tape and sensing foil strip. I also have the original Teac metal take up reel, with original box (and plastic wrap for the reel) that has some kind of wax paper over the cover of the box.
What are some maintenance steps to take on this reel to reel, before messing with it too much? I've seen cleaning the rubber components, check the record/playback heads for wear, etc.
Are there any strict caveats about messing with this thing? I don't want to do something dumb and ruin a 2340 in pretty solid shape, with all sorts of accessories.
I did figure out last night that it's got a stuck/sticky pinch roller (as I've read here, not uncommon, and hopefully not *too* problematic to resolve with patience and cleaning). It does not pop up when playing tape - but does spring tightly upwards against the capstan once it's nudged a bit (takes some force). The capstan has some tape residue on it, but still seems to spin well. Once I lightly coerced the pinch roller upwards against the capstan, I heard some sweet 70's rock out of my speakers from a tape still on the machine (1/2 way played).
Also, I'm a little confused about getting 4 track output into my receiver - how would one hook up all of the outputs from the 2340 and into one set of RCA inputs on my receiver, to listen to all 4 tracks of a recording? Y-adapters? The machine came to me with the selector switched to 4 track, instead of 2, but I just hooked up track 1 and 3 into my RCA for "CD" on my receiver.
Thanks for any guidance/advice you can provide. Sorry for all of the questions. I'm pretty excited to be playing around with this!
First of all, I've been reading a LOT of posts here, and this place seems like a huge wealth of knowledge, and lots of great members!
I just bought a Teac A-2340R from someone at work, for $50. Does anyone know about when these things were made? It had been sitting for a long time not getting used since they got rid of their receiver. I'm 34, and I've never messed with a reel to reel, but it looked like something interesting to play music with.
It came with the Teac dust cover, A-2340R manual in near perfect condition, Teac accessories box w/ a little box containing a cleaning wand and bottle of fluid (empty), rubber feet with a white dust on them (seem unused), oil (in a ziploc thankfully, it leaked), and a little thing of splicing tape and sensing foil strip. I also have the original Teac metal take up reel, with original box (and plastic wrap for the reel) that has some kind of wax paper over the cover of the box.
What are some maintenance steps to take on this reel to reel, before messing with it too much? I've seen cleaning the rubber components, check the record/playback heads for wear, etc.
Are there any strict caveats about messing with this thing? I don't want to do something dumb and ruin a 2340 in pretty solid shape, with all sorts of accessories.
I did figure out last night that it's got a stuck/sticky pinch roller (as I've read here, not uncommon, and hopefully not *too* problematic to resolve with patience and cleaning). It does not pop up when playing tape - but does spring tightly upwards against the capstan once it's nudged a bit (takes some force). The capstan has some tape residue on it, but still seems to spin well. Once I lightly coerced the pinch roller upwards against the capstan, I heard some sweet 70's rock out of my speakers from a tape still on the machine (1/2 way played).
Also, I'm a little confused about getting 4 track output into my receiver - how would one hook up all of the outputs from the 2340 and into one set of RCA inputs on my receiver, to listen to all 4 tracks of a recording? Y-adapters? The machine came to me with the selector switched to 4 track, instead of 2, but I just hooked up track 1 and 3 into my RCA for "CD" on my receiver.
Thanks for any guidance/advice you can provide. Sorry for all of the questions. I'm pretty excited to be playing around with this!
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