Philips crazy Ski Slope Cassette Deck
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- As unusual cassette decks go - the 1970s Philips changers are some of the oddest.
00:00 Intro
04:18 The ‘Repair’
26:05 First Demo
30:13 Prices & History
32:38 More Demo
36:39 Wrap Up
38:22 Credits
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It’s very likely one reason the tapes didn’t always locate perfectly in the mechanism is because I was using short custom-wound tapes. As these have less tape inside...they will also have less weight than the average C90. When I ordered them I had no idea the tolerances in the machine would be so fine with regard to tape weight. My intention was to use the short lengths to demonstrate the continuous tape recycling feature activated by the tape end sensor...without having to wait for a full length tape to reach the end. In addition most new cassette shells are a bit rougher and more angular than ones from back in the 1970s - they'd be more smoothed off with rounder edges, and as a result they'd be far less likely to get caught up against the sides of the cassette well.
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This looks absolutely perfect for those times when you want to listen to the first half of your six favourite albums and then the second half all in a row.
When time flies slowly..
Exactly what I was thinking the whole time.
Just dub side 2 of tape 1 onto side 1 or tape 2 and so on.
70s were a time
It wasn't about having it for function. It was just about having it.
Even bought two-tone tapes to demonstrate the flipping. What a legend.
Those have been pretty standard for years here in the Netherlands :) old times.. When you knew what songs were on the red or green side!
Flippin’ ‘eck!
@@Milamberinx Ecky thump!
_"I'm not particularly good at repairing things, I'm just some guy who likes to tinker with things. I'll play around with them, hoping to get them working just enough to be able to show them in a video."_
That's one of the most humble understatements I've ever heard.
It’s pretty accurate though, because “get them working just enough to be able to show them” is exactly what he did for this video.
This is the kind of guy that makes it look so simple it will let you think: "hey why pay someone? i can do that too".. one hour later you fucked everything up beyond comprehension 😂❤
@@DildoFagginsNL And two hours later you've got a better handle on things. DIY repair is all bout learning how to save your next project from yourself by doing it right, and as far as learning processes go, it's really effective.
We only see his relative successes, we don't know how many things he has in various states of being repaired at any given moment.
@@electrictroy2010 At 2:26 he explains that some the controls are not normally worded. In this case Reject for Eject, but you know that already as you have watched the video.
Fascinating design
yeah
Don't know why but I never expected Dustin to be a viewer of the great British reviewer/repairman Techmoan.
@@M3D1C2121 Not sure if he is to be honest, I see many creators just leaving a comment on a popular video as a way to get you to go to their channel. :)
@@VincentGroenewold I totally see what you're saying, but I have a hard time believing that Destin would ever do anything like that for clout. He loooves the little mechanical bits and the intelligent design. While I didn't quite expect him to be here, when you think about it it makes total sense that Destin would enjoy this stuff. :)
@@M3D1C2121 Nobody expects the.... ;)
I don't know what's best, the ingenuity and creativity of the analogue era or Techmoan's humility in going through so many small and moving pieces, partially restoring some functions in a device almost 50 years old and then only calling himself a "tinkerer".
He has got the patience of a saint to deal with all that fiddly nonsense inside. I'd probably give up and crawl into a ball weeping, LOL. Ultimately it's just so damned rewarding seeing his work pay off and watching this ancient gear spring back into life. I appreciate his love of ancient gadgetry, I find these videos endlessly fascinating.
Tenacious Matt! Intense focus and excution. Thanks!
I find you can clearly see the difference between someone doing this as a hobby and an actualy expert. That said, most people probably wont have the patience do deal with stuff like this from the get go.
I think his jokes that he splices in there while explaining what he's doing are the best. if you don't pay attention you might as well miss them. and I love that.
Yeah if I tried to repair something like this the only thing I would succeed at is disassembling it.
My favourite genre of UA-cam is “person who is incredibly talented at something niche and pours their soul into it”
So, UA-cam.
Thats my too...
I cannot agree more.
Lockpicking Lawyer and Steve1989.... they would be right up your alley!
My youtube favorite is all the mindless worshippers of UA-cam famers.
This machine brings back great memories. They were made in Austria and in most ski resorts bars in the seventies they had one, all decked out with german Schlager hit cassettes and popular Eurodisco compilations, as well as Nana Mouskouri, Demis Roussos etc. So, while getting high on schnapps, I would sit and watch the cassettes slide down the ramp.
Quite fitting to have a "ski ramp" cassette mechanism at a ski resort.
i like how you called drinking getting high
@@bigboi9856 alcohol is a drug after all
@@wind2536 Oxygen is also a drug; I guess we're all high, all the time!
As a retired mechanical engineer all I can say is that you are very skilled in your ability to both understand and repair this excessively complex mechanism. Well done!!!
like he could stick a chewed up paper into the prerecorded cassettes hole ))) instead of bending
I would like to become a mechanical engineer any advice?
@@atomicshark9466 yeah, stick with electrical engineer
@@oveidasinclair982 Any reason why?
@@electrictroy2010 yeah Im a lot like that, if something is easy and cheap fix I'll do it, if its time consuming I rather spend a bit more money and get it done. I really don't have that much free time, so I prefer to use my time chilling or having fun, instead of "working".
This whole mechanism makes me think of a car company developing a means of having the engine disconnect from its mounts and slide to the other end of the vehicle... so it can drive in reverse.
It'd be more like having 6 engines in a car and each of them with forward and reverse. It's more like a solution to play multiple tapes in queue than a replacement to auto reverse.
How did you post comment a week ago when the video is posted an hour ago?
Great analogy! 😆
@@vueport99 I think patreon people get early sight of the vids
@@vueport99 He's a patrion, you get special access, the videos are made weeks in advance.
I have one of these in a box in my closet that my father tried to repair about 20 years ago and gave up on. It was originally used for background music in a hotel we had in Newquay, Cornwall in the early 1970's. I took a look at it a few years ago but quickly put it back in the box when I saw how complicated it was. Watching this video (almost) makes me want to have another go at repairing it.
Go for it, at least now you have some video reference, not only those drawings in the manual. However if it was used like that, I bet the head is weared back to its soldering pins :) So if it was not changed earlier, I think it has to be done now (if you want to actually hear something played on it)
Did you ever get back to it ? : O
Despite the mechanism being a hit or miss due to age, this thing is freaking sick. I love old tech like this, and I appreciate you putting together a nice lengthy video for us to enjoy!
That's a blast from the past - I worked on one of those back in my days as an audio engineer with Dixserve, the repair section of Dixons. I remember we were having a party at my house and I "borrowed it" to give it a "good soak test" and used it all evening (and it worked!).
This video should have been titled: "Flippin' Deck!"
Nice one!
Comment of the day award goes to you lol
I think you mean Phillipin' Deck! :)
Hurray.
Brilliant!
When you said, that Phillips screw is written with two "l", my mind melted. I never noticed that before 😳
"I'm just filling in time with irrelevance", well I learnt something there too man. I actually thought they were one and the same entity. I love this channel.
i think that is normal. Philips electronics is a Dutch company, hence the unusual spelling.
I... noticed it but never questioned it, and that displeases me, so I just looked some bits up now. 'Fillippos' is in fact attested in Greek as a name, presumably from the assimilation of the 'h' in 'hippos' in dialects that preserved it. That surprised me; it's non-standard but also not incorrect Greek! Apparently the doubled-l form of the name in English is more commonly derived from people adapting 'Philip' to English (or Welsh, apparently) spelling rules though. And my ten minutes of youtube comment web search diligence could not tell you which is applicable to the man who made the screwdriver, if it even is either of those.
I frankly didn't know there was a company behind it!
That's the sort of fact that will make you an absolute hit at dinner parties. Can't wait to pull that one out of the bag! :-)
I remember these with a degree of fondness. Back in 1973 I joined Comet as a trainee audio engineer, a wonderful part of my life and many memories, I've worked on many of these and the later models. Philips back in the day were very innovative with many of their designs, mostly good and some bad, this fell somewhere between the two. You were right when you said they didn't sell very many as they were an oddity, not really high on a HIFI buffs wish list and too expensive/fiddley as a general tape player. The vast majority were sold as background music and mostly to restaurants. Invariably they ended up in the kitchen so diners didn't have to listen to cassette tapes clattering about in the ski lift and it wasn't surprising that because of its location the kitchen staff looked after it. After a while, I could guess which restaurant one of these came from without looking at the job card but the dried food that had found its way into every crevice and usually the reason why it wanted service in the first place. Happy days....PS circa 12:22 fitting the belt under the plastic drive wheel was easy if you had a piece of thin stainless steel rod about 0.5mm thick, the end shaped like the letter u in uF the long tail being the handle. The hooked end went under the wheel while you tensioned the RHS of the belt and then threaded it to the left, easy ;)
Wow, those schematics! Seeing them really makes me appreciate the genius of the designers.
That was an excellent blow out diagram. Pretty much every time I manage to find one for something made recently, it's just... terribly incomplete...
@@electrictroy2010 actually, if you look at integrated circuit internal schematic, it would be more complex than circuits with discrete components. It just that all of the complexities are hidden and not visible to naked eyes.
I'm a radio amateur and chatted to a chap across the water In Wales the first time a few weeks ago. He was telling me about his time repairing background music systems. Turns out we are both fans of your channel and we chatted about your videos for a good while! He talked about working on this and how he replaced the steing on on sled mechanism with fishing line 🤣 . We both hoped you would make a video about it!
Good timing, I hope you both enjoy the video.
OK. This requires a medal or a prize awarded...🏆🎖
As someone who has been repairing vintage audio for over 40 years, you did very well. You are well above the 'tinkerer' standard and I can officially promote you to semi-professional bodger.
The world is a better place with Techmoan.
I think I'd agree with you. I'm slowly learning electronics, and have been able to -bumblefuck- navigate my way around modern iPhones and laptops, and I've been building computers quite literally since I could lift them up. But I don't think you could plop this down on my desk and tell me to go for it without you getting a few bonus screws and bits and pieces in return.
But I tend to find the best way to learn is by doing.
@@uzaiyaro Yes, keep it up. To anyone interested in tinkering I would recommend learning the basics of electronics and material sciences as the basics can take you a long way. Ohms law for instance can make 90% of electronics make sense and can be learned in a minute.
@@uzaiyaro PS I like the 'bumble**** navigate' 😸
@@uzaiyaro That kind of reminds me of when I was working fixing laptops & PC's etc, we all used disposable plastic cups to hold all the screws as things got disassembled. If you wanted to be an arsehole, you would sneak up and drop an extra screw in the cup, then amuse yourself as they would try and put it back together, usually several times, trying to figure out where this screw belonged.
@@paulstubbs7678 😂 Diabolical!
Having lived thru my childhood with cassette tape players and all that stuff, I gotta admit that's the first time I'm seeing this machine and all I can say is just WOW! This is an incredible design and also I wish I had one of these back in the days.
Fantastic!
I repaired hundreds of tape decks in the '70s and '80s, but this is the first time I've seen one of these.
Well done!
I love the idea that some designers sat and were like "you know what's annoying? Flipping tapes, like just flip the suckers in the air" and everyone said yes
I love the idea that they did not settle with: "let's wait a year or two until there are cheap bidirectional motors & heads"
@@petercortens6019 hey, if everyone who had an idea said "let's wait a year or two until there are cheap bidirectional motors & heads", we'd be back in the stone age and we'd be etching our youtube comments on a tree
I used to have this deck.
Whenever I as a young adolescent threw a party back in the eighties (whenever my parents were out for a longer period of time - you know how it is, haha), I'd ask those of my friends, who were able to get their hands on the latest music, to make 60 min. mix tapes and bring it to the party. With each tape containing the latest and greatest of then current music - some even remixed together by our resident DJ - the party would not go dead from lack of music. And the deck itself even garned a bit of attraction - especially whenever the tape changed.
“A solution to a problem few people needed solving” seems to be the mantra of all manufacturers in every industry today.
This is great! It reminds me of, of all things, a donut machine my stepfather used in a snack bar he created for a Monkey Wards store many years ago. Batter would get squirted into a revolving circular metal "spider" that sat in a tray of hot cooking oil. Halfway around the circle, each (now half-cooked) donut would get flipped over, allowing it to cook on the other side.
As a kid I got a kick out of watching them get flipped! Watching the cassettes make their way down the "ski slope" reminded me of that, odd association I know .
Thanks for a great video. I have worked on things like this in my day so I know the frustration as well as the rewards when you get something to work.
Dude I literally just yesterday just showed a friend that video from 5 years ago, and we both really wanted to see this silly machine. And now we can take a look
you're lucky you have friends you can share these videos with lol
We live in amazing times
My aunt owned one of these, and I’d completely forgotten about this. Yes, it never worked well, and six was the ideal number. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
Your dedication to your craft is as inspiring as the over-engineering of this cassette deck. Bravo to you, sir, for taking the time to make such a quality video.
I worked in the Radio/TV/HiFi trade for about 30 years from 1969. These players came along in the early/mid 70's IIRC and were just the job for pubs who wanted continuous background music without the same tracks coming around every hour or so. They were pretty reliable too, although there was a cord-drive that was meant to pull the cassette through the deck and failed occasionally. I owned an N2400 which was a great machine which made really nice recordings.
I encountered one of these in use as a pub BGM in the late 80s when I was on work experience with a company that installed jukeboxes, fruit machines and the like in pubs. It was playing boring instrumental muzak constantly and the jukebox would somehow override it when a customer paid to put on a song. I think they actually chose boring music for the BGM to try to encourage use of the jukebox
Always good to see you around the internet, Mike! How's the SAFFRON business going?
@Sannesthesia Too high a glucose level would likely have the same sophoric effect as the muzak.
Of course one should know even the geniuses like Mozart wrote muzak. Stuff to be background to say a garden party and outdoor meal. Not everything is an opera or a symphony experience to be focused on. They had to eat too you know. The workaday stuff the rich patrons needed in return letting you have the time to do 'art'. A symphony can be a great show for the guests and status symbol. The message being I am rich enough to throw money at art and extravagant performances and still maintain my grand estates and business empire. The trade off seems fair. Do boring stuff in return for fun later. Better than the poor people who ground their bodies and souls down in service from dawn till midnight.
Yo, love your scambaiting series
Was that company MAM Inn Play ?
@@tarstarkusz 30p in china the lot
The two-colours cassetes were a nice touch. Something that even Philips marketing didn't think about back in 1972. Great job as always.
But SONY did - well, kinda: They made some cassettes with a red label on one side and a green on the other.
What an odd, fantastical device. Thank you for all your videos, I really enjoy watching them! I love how you explain each device in depth including their history, as well as showing how you fix them.
Being a fellow tinkerer... i could watch repairs such as this for hours, thoroughly enjoyable vid, thank you sir..
“Now if you’ve ever attempted to repair anything, I’m sure you’ll be more than familiar with this part of the process. Everything seems to be going so well, then for whatever reason, it all seems to stop working completely.”
*me having flashbacks*
Traumatic flashbacks at that.
Me anytime I think I might be able to save money by doing it myself. Usually I end up with new tools that I probably won't ever use again plus a professional repair bill. Oh well; I'll just keep trying for fun.
PTSD - Party Tapedeck Stress Disorder
OCD - Old Cassette Dysphoria
My weenie use to be like that until I installed a party balloon inf later. lol
that line alone... hits everyone... holy shit.
It's fascinating that this juggernaut went from an idea to store shelves. Just the zillion pieces being produced is amazing.
First generation
My thoughts exactly. It's a bit unbelievable (and absolutely awesome) that someone thought it's a good idea to put that mechanism into production.
That time has come and gone. Even looking at this thing, I see so many opportunities for simplification with a bit of digital logic. :-)
It's really a niche BGM machine and not any more complicated than many of the disc changers at the time, being able to load it up once and let it go forever is an attractive feature.
As if Apple would ever design a slide for an iPod!
I always enjoy how you acknowledge you're not an "expert" but you still try to fix things and have fun doing it, your humbleness is seriously one of your best qualities Matt.
You have an enormous amount of patience. As a person who started in broadcasting in 1965 I have had a ton of tape recorders open.... most developed belt problems. Thanks for your shows. Keep it up. Dennis
Dude I've been fixing electronics for 15 years and I've literally never thought of that tack trick to catch a spring. I love it.
And on that note, this thing is a nightmare. I would've been the first guy. Got 3 belts in and was like, actually, fuck this.
Edit: Also love all the rubber reversion on your hands. The mark of a true "why am I doing this" job.
I don't work on electronics much but I do work on small engines and this trick is going to save me so much annoyance with the tiny springs random things.
The second I saw the schematic, I was like... nope. *puts case back on, and sets unit by the side of the road*
Wow, very cool! Thanks for all the effort you put into the videos. We the viewers, appreciate it!
«1 week ago» 🗿
LoL
brifly34 yeah, I know. But I didn’t think that he puts them sooo earlier
"We the viewers..."
*Grabs pitchfork*
"...appreciate it!"
*Puts pitchfork back down*
talk in your own name . i don't remember as a viewer to have been appointed you as a representative of my opinion . you are a pos assuming you represent everybody's opinion . thumbs down.
I love the fact there are endless electronic gadgets from the past and glad you’re taking a strong interest in discovering some of them. Keep up the great work !
I've only just come across your channel. You are genius in working on these old machines and studying how they work. As a youngster in the 60's I was forever wanting to take machines apart and see how they worked. But you have loads more patience than I will ever have. Most enjoyable and entertaining. Thank you. I particularly liked the episodes for reel to reel recorders. I had an Akai (inoperable) that sat in a cupboard for 20 years until I eventually took it to the recycling. Now I wish I had held onto it.
"Other colors of tak are available." Pure comedy gold right there.
hehe, that got me smiling too
@@plan7a BlueTak is the common one here in Australia
@@plan7a ah. I should have known. I thought it was a region thing.
Kudos to Mr. Techmoan, how entertaining this high quality video is! How well filmed - you can see everything clearly. How well showed and how well everything is explained. Plus the backflash, plus the insight to the big technical efforts, that have been done to serve (or create) customers conveniences, to provide (hopefully) easy enough operation of the machines. And to get the stuff sold to them, of course.
This was really pretty spectacular to watch. I miss the days when things were mechanical like this and you could literally see it move and work - but I absolutely do not miss the times when they break and you need to replace those sticky belts! Haha. Thank you so much for doing so much work to get the ski slope working, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the whole journey, brought back some nostalgia from back in the 90s (the 80s came to my country in the 90s!).
When the largest chapter in your video is "The Repair", you know the Techmoan audience is not your average UA-cam audience. Great content!
Your curiosity and patience is what humans should aspire to...my personal opinion
Indeed. Sadly, most of them are the opposite: they want everything served on the plate.
Well it is certainly that attitude that fosters innovation. So yes - in many ways your statement is right. Discounting all the man hours that's gone in to dreaming up ways for us to kill each other.
Thanks for the persistence in fixing this unique deck. Never seen one before and I'm glad to see it in operation. Fantastic channel, love all of your content.
Childhood memories! My father had such a fantastic cassette changer in the early seventies. When I saw the thumbnail of this video I had to check it out. Thanks for posting.
If I ran a bar I’d have one of these in a glass case in the corner playing background music and amusing punters with its loveliness
With 30 min casettes, not 90 min.
@@olmostgudinaf8100 That's about the same per side as modern vinyl so it would be easy enough to plan the tapes out.
You could put announcement tapes in telling people that your ready to flip!
What is a punter?
@@4lifejeph slang for customer
Luckily for that cassette, gravity is still working today
he would fix it if it didn't, then say he's not much of a quantum physics fixer.
Thanks to Sir Isaac Newton.
"Complete and utter crap: Will not work on the ISS!" (review by a guy who will not even step on a plane ...)
If the laws of physics no longer apply in the future, god help you.
@@stpidstuff good reference
One of your best videos ever I think. I couldn’t stop watching it till the end. Well done.
I have the Akai auto reverse, it gives me a combination of glee and joy to watch these work!
This reminds me of my days of being a consumer electronics technician. The electronics course I took taught all about circuits and nothing about mechanics. I worked on MANY old car stereos, cassette decks and VCRs sometimes the mechanicals were a nightmare.
I would call it a CRIME to skip to the end of this video. Damn, it's all about the process!!!!
As someone who's worked on a few VHS decks, it was fun to see the huge mode wheel in this deck. I love the Rube Goldberg-esque engineering in these old devices.
I came across this page by accident, and I’m still in disbelief I sat here and watch the whole 40 minute video. His voice is very soothing and he is very detailed with his work.
I remember seeing one of these being used in a cafe in St. Helier, Jersey in the summer of 1976. Turn it on in the morning, turn it off in the evening with no repeat songs throughout the day.
Just a call to the repairers every other day
They should have called it the Möbius tape changer since it plays them all in a continuous loop and both sides get played!
Released 44 minutes ago, but comment from 1 week ago. 😱 Time traveler!
@@Microtic Read the extra info, Patrons have early access to the videos
@@waldnew I thought that's how it worked. Was just trying to make a joke. 😅
@@Microtic 42 I say.
I bow my head. You are incredible. I would give up the things so easily which you have been so persistent. When I was in my 20’s I spent hours and days fixing those vexing mechanisms. Now I don’t have any patience. I am so impressed I love to watch your videos.
I didn't expect the repair bit to be so fun to watch - a lot more fun than it was to do I reckon. Thanks for the efforts!
Imagine the amount of engineering it took to create this. It's not a wonder it was in danger of being outdated when released, especially if competing manufacturers were working on something else during the time of R & D. Brilliant video as always.
I would love to see a video of the factory who built those. Manufacturing of these machines must be fascinating.
@@Domspun right? i dont even know how they mass produced this thing in the 70s, guess a lot was basically handfitted
"I'm not that good at repairing things" - this is really taking self-deprecation to a new level!
agreed! plus the amount of times I would have smashed something against the wall would have made my effort to build this channel a moot one. The restraint it takes to do this is awe inspiring, for me that is. A level of self control I will never attain!
In my defense, if you were interested in blind rage and destruction, this channel would have been better off with me ;-)
@@jonathansabinvarietyfilms thanks for revealing the Dunning Kruger effect. are yu a psychologist. I am amazed at what type of esoteric knowledge people have stacked in their brains.
@@abhaynatoo No, it gained meme popularity by a summary being passed around online, but it is a real phenomena.
Wow what a cool machine. This looks so awesome even when its off. This is the holy grail of casette changers. Also I always thought the compact cassette is such a superior design. These things work almost flawlessly when 40 years old!
The ski slope tape player reminds me of the penguin ski slope Christmas toy. A never ending amount of joy watching the penguins climb the stairs slowly and then slide gracefully down the ramps over and over again.
Damn ! I went to a Hifi Show at Earls Court in early 70’s and one like this was on a stand , I looked in wonder and never thought I would see one again , thanks techmoan 😊👍
I saw one in a Norwich audio shop window in 1972, never thought I would see one again. It was a crazy price, at the time, compared to my small salary.
What a thing indeed. 1970 electro-mechanical engineering. Awesome.
the 2022 viewing was just as good as the first time last year! Thank you for putting this together,
At the time Philips was a huge concern with thousands of employees, including an R&D dept. I wonder what the budget was for developing and getting that thing into production. Not to mention putting it together on a production line. It looked more like a novelty than a serious piece of HiFi. I must say you did an excellent job of getting it to work, well done.
I remember havin a philips hifi stereo receiver, that had a few small bulbs to illuminate the dials and tuning scale. To replace a bulb I had to unscrew the cabinet at the back which had steel brackets clipped over the frequency scale coupled with long bolts and tightened up with the screws at the back. It never looked the same after i had my hands on it. In the 70's Philips had a technical service depot in Rotterdam that was walk in - wait - walk out with it fixed, no charge. I took my VHS video recorder there, explained at the counter what was wrong, I was given a number and waited about 40 minutes. A technician brought it out, said they had replaced ( a number part) and it was now Ok. What a service...!
Great video as always Mat! I used to service these in 1974. I'm still having therapy...
Man, when he pulled up the diagram in the service manual on his tablet and I saw just how complex it was and how many bloody parts it had, I just about passed out. LOL, he has way more patience that I think i would have had :) I find this stuff insanely fascinating.
the q-tip advisory made me laugh a lot more than it should, good job
I cracked up when the tape counter stopped working. Sorry Matt. 😄
That is an incredibly satisfying use of physics. Thank you, Matt. Your perseverance has given us all a gift.
I love your videos! Thank you for your work as it is very interesting. Having watched you diagnose and repair many items, I admire your skills and, above all, your patience! Thanks again. Roger in Wisconsin
Okay, the thing about Philips not using Phillips screws really blew my mind.
@@andygozzo72 Yeah, I hate the Phillips screws with a passion. I prefer Robertson [square] or Torx
I really got excited like a little child when I saw this video pop up in my feed! This bloke really managed to get hold of one of those flippin' (literally) decks! These 40 minutes felt like five, definitely love your videos! Keep up the great content!
The very best part is the odd face I see in the tapes, like they're all very shocked at this entire machine. 🤣🤣🤣
The dedication to fixing it is incredible too. Thanks for not giving up, it was great to watch!
Any electronic device that includes a piece of string as a critical component has my approval. Great job on the repair.
"Cool! I can finally play my favorite album on repeat. Just had to purchase six copies on tape."
You could get away with only 4 I think! Such a bargain.
He literally says you'll need 3.
@@main6974 And an extra to force the tape down into proper position. But that could be more of a now thing than a then thing.
@@main6974 Yes, but if you have 4 you can alternate them ABAB and have it continuously play both sides in order instead of having repeating sides every so often
@@Synthetica9 Genius!
I have repaired many of these decks when I was in the repair business.
I still have a manual.
OMG that deck is so comical, got to love the '70's engineering :)
Life is a journey, not a destination. I enjoyed watching you repair this machine. I think of machines like these as being living creatures! Well done, bringing your new pet back to life.
How engineers figured out THIS CRAZY AUTOREVERSE STUFF before they realised it’s easier to just flip the playback head is beyond me!
Oooooooh that would be simpler, yes
Live and learn the hard way!Too bad the r&d depts don't go the extra mile and work out ALL the bugs like with tapes getting chewed up and cd's being scratched and skipping annoyingly!
@@garyhundsrucker7771 - They *never* seemed to fully care about the tape chewing issue to be sorted out.
Absolutely nothing, that seems easy and simple now, started out as that.
@@garyhundsrucker7771 Blu-ray disks have anti-scratch coating. I read they were the cheapest and most durable option for archive use at Facebook.
Videos like this "in depth repairing" are my fav Techmoan videos. And he doesn't even have to be successful in the repair for me to watch it over and over again. Really appeals to the nerd in me.
Great to see this tape deck in action. Very educational and enjoyable. Thank you.
That's a pretty ingenious mechanism. They used gravity so that they don't have to add more expensive change motors, instead just using a regular eject motor.
Man! I felt your pain on that one. Thanks for your patience. It paid off for us.
"If ya wanna just skip to that bit" - heck no! Even if the tech is unsalvageable, the videos are fun! ^_^
You speak for many of us, old Chap! 😁
Yeah, you need to push that skip button with my cold dead hand.
Wow!
Well done for perseverance an gentle patience.
I was there in the 70s. But I don't ever remeber that feature on Philips cassette decks..
Pretty amazing design in all it's simplicity, the ski slope part that is. The interior of the player was kind of intricate with all wheels, belts and electronic components. Just found your channel. Love it. Great video!
There's no way I'd skip the repair section in any of your videos. I'm just fascinated by how the mechanism works, and watching the repair succeed was worth it. Cheers!
I'm 64 and I've never seen one of these contraptions. What a blast. Thanks, Ace.
I'm 64 too and I've never seen one either
I'm a Nintendo 64.
What a crazy machine. I can't imagine how it was ever designed. Some kind of mad genius behind this one.
Couldn´t stop watching it - what a masterpiece of its time and i dont mean how greatly functional this beast is but how much brainwork is in this with all its belts and springs and whatnot. Thank you so much for presenting this machine to us and for spending so many hours of work into it getting it to do what it is/was supposed to do =)))
What an incredible bit of engineering inside! The manufacturing process must have been quite something
Exactly what I am thinking. Would love to see a video of the factory who made those l.
"I'm just filling in time here with irrelevance while I get it open". Spit out my coffee on that one 🤣🤣 I am so glad we get to see this, I can't believe the other video is 5 years old. I remember that one and actually rewatched it over Christmas on a binge session. Thank you for this Mat!!
Just recently found your tech channel Have equipment from the 70s 80s. Still working Love the way you present your Excellent in depth Videos of some of the vintage equipment Fascinating
My Grandad worked for Phillips in NZ when he came back from ww2. He always had the latest tech like this player, a microwave in the late 60s early 70s that was the size of a small fridge lol and tvs. I forgot all about this player! Thanks for the memories!
That mechanism is BRUTAL! Good job getting it running!
This would be a great machine to use to steal your unsuspecting friends' tapes (without the ski slope attachment). They would pop their tape into the machine and after it plays the A side, they can watch their tape disappear into the guts of the machine and you can then say to them, "Oh well, it's gone now." :)
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He's gone. And we couldn't do NOTHING about it. That's it. He's gone.
@@SHO1989 real greaseball shit
Brilliant video, really enjoyed that. I love watching when a bit of kit you buy is riddled with issues.
Man's a legend 👍🏾 👍🏾 slightly before my era but still really kool to see what gadgets were available back then and to get them working is just class .... I bow before you sir 😎
From the age of storing lots of music on thumbnail-sized circuits via ones and zeros, it's fascinating to see the complicated mechanics they had to invent half a century ago just to listen to a long set of music without getting up changing the tape or side. Very entertaining to see it in action! Thanks for your efforts to bring this machine to us! :)