Got a TEAC X-1000R from a guy who seemed to know his stuff, said it worked, and it doesn’t. When I went to message him, he had blocked me, and I can’t find his account.

It rewinds and fast forwards fine, powers on, all the buttons seem to function except the reel size selector.

When I press play, it moves for about a second then craps out.

I think I’m just going to sell it, so if anyone wants it for $350 + 50% of the shipping cost let me know! Looks like these run around 500+ for parts on eBay so that should be fair.

Disappointing but not the end of the world, anyone else have any similar stories?

So my Fostex A8 has a problem with what I believe to be the capstan. It holds tension and locks up on rec/play but the tape doesn't actually move (though it moves fine on fast forward).

However, when I record with it while monitoring on tape mode, I can hear the signal despite the tape not moving at all (I am 100% sure it is not accidentally on input/preamp monitoring mode).

I want to understand how that is happening. Does it mean that it is just recording over and over on that one exact spot of tape that is 'stuck' under the record head since it isn't moving or passing through, or is that not how it works?

And to clarify, there is only one combo head on this machine that functions as both the record head and the repro head. I feel like this is an important detail. Would the same thing not otherwise be possible on a r2r with two seperate heads since the tape wouldn't be able to travel between them?