Hi, I had this on a shelf for years, I took it down and cleaned it off plugged it into the variac, warmed up. Put a tape in and pressed the play button. Bam it still worked. Vey clean deck, it will get a New belt kit next week.
I bought one of those brand new the year they came out , paid $500 cad for it back then and had it for 10 years or so until the D word and I left that with the Mrs . Made a pile of tapes on it and still have most of those .