Well here is the $1.95 Teac all cleaned and repaired. The power button was an easy fix, although the same cannot be said for the pause button, which was impossible to repair, so I glued it in place so it was at least even with the other buttons (I'll fix it whenever I find a donor deck). I did not have to buy a belt for it after all as I swiped the belt from an auto reverse dual deck Emerson era Scott dubbing deck with my father in law gave me. The Scott had something wrong with it where it would not produce any audio and I was at my wits end trying to figure out why, so it became a donor deck. In the zoomed in shot, you can see the 1968-1971 Mustang window handle disc on the record level knob. While not a perfect fit, it looks much better than it did. The only problem I can see with it still is the auto stop keeps engaging which I can attribute to needing a counter belt since the counter is run off the take up reel and then triggers the auto stop function. While a very common mechanism for that era, it is pretty ingenious as it prevents too much tape damage (or deck damage) if a tape ever becomes jammed and spills out all over the place.
Oh by the way, ignore the POS Onkyo receiver. Not part of any of my systems, just there for bench testing as it has issues.
so the only thing it still needs is the two back feet.
First deal this year.
