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For posterity's sake, I'll give another update on this in case anyone ever finds this thread in their own research about this unit or issues. I feel like a fuckin' pro at this point hahaha. Disassembly was pretty easy, just remember where your screws go. But seriously, all but 2 little screws (I hate calling these properly threaded fasteners screws, but calling them little bolts seems so wrong) were the same, just different colored. Audio coming out of only one channel was the biggest issue for me. It's still a bit finicky so if I ever get proper belts for this unit, I'll attack the switches/pots again with Deoxit, which seemed to do the trick, I think. I initially described my issue as no audio out of the right channel, but after a bit of troubleshooting, I found that the signal was super faint. To deduce this, I turned the balance all the way to the right and turned up the volume; I was indeed able to hear a faint signal. I cleaned the recording switch on the board (red rectangle: there are two long metal pieces), as well as all electrical connectors. In addition, cleaning the switch pots seemed to do the most for me regarding this issue. In order to get audio to play out of both channels, I sometimes have to press down on the play button a few times. Slow or nonexistent rewind, counter not working, tape-playing lights: I cleaned the heads, capstan, pinch roller, and belts with isopropyl. I got a tip to use windex on the pinch roller, but didn't find that I needed it. The rewind issue is still there, but it's much better than before. The counter works just fine and the tape-playing lights were on, but were not visible from the outside of the unit when I originally described this issue. It turns out that the counter and piece that makes the lights visible (blue circle) to the outside of the unit all run on two belts. I cleaned both, but one still slips a little bit and they should both eventually be replaced. The light bulb still doesn't work, but that's only because I do not know what watt bulb to get. Overall, this was really fun to work on and with a little bit more Deoxit and new belts, this thing will be brand new. This also gave me the confidence to get something else and work on it...I found a Nakamichi BX-1 on craigslist for 50 bucks that needs its belts replaced. I ordered those and the idler tire and I trust that I'll have an amazing player for a relatively low cost. Video of unit playing

Prices are starting to come "down." An auction ended on eBay for 52 bucks, as opposed to 75-80.

Thank you! I should have updated OP. The only issue I'm running into is audio on the right channel is super faint, but it has worked for about 5 seconds at a time, then goes super faint. I've been posting about it on IG and audiokarma, thanks for the other links!

I think that's only possible if you receive a tracking notification, no? For example, I found the email address to which I can forward "shipped" messages to and then the Shop app will track that purchase, but for example, if I pre-order something and checkout with PayPal, I didn't see a way to add that to the Shop app. Definitely seems to be working better for you than me. I might also be wrong about some of the things I described and perhaps might be conflating purchases through other apps and misaligning that with when I started using Shop. I'll have to pay more attention to see if it's not working properly or if I'm just an idiot.

I write all of my pre-orders down in a notebook and have contemplated screenshots in the past. Doesn't really matter if things get pushed back, but notice would have been cool. Also, def relaxed, my "where the fuck is it?" was tongue-in-cheek, I don't care where this album is, and my rhetorical question was followed by "IDK." Anyway, I find that Shop somehow doesn't get everything; I guess they'll only get the orders when I use the Shop app to purchase. But it doesn't and won't help me track random purchases elsewhere (though I suppose those aren't difficult to keep track of since they're not months out).

lol wut, that’s fucked haha

Every now and then I remember that I have this on PO as well...the light purple blast variant. Where the fuck is it? IDK

Kinda agree, but I do like the pink in clear version of Low Teens.

Received my Kings Road copies of New Junk, Ex Lives, Parts Unknown, and Low Teens today. Bittersweet.

That B-side looks like a lot of fun.

Apologies for the long post I just picked up a used Cassette deck and need to fix a few things. So far, this is what I've noticed that needs fixin: Audio only coming out of left channel. Left VU meter working properly. I did some brief research on this found that cleaning the record/play switch might help - small thread I also found this thread, which has a comment I believe to be relatable, but I do not think I fully understand. "You can eliminate the head as the source of your problem by interchanging the L & R wires in the connector. If the problem migrates to the other channel, then the head or cable is the culprit, otherwise there is a problem on the board." I did this, I think. I took my red and white connectors on the back of the tape deck and reversed them, but I'm still only getting movement on the left VU meter, the right VU meter isn't moving. I am getting audio through right speaker of course. So I do not believe my problem migrated to the other channel, right? Slow or nonexistent rewind Rewind seems to work just fine when the tape is in the middle of its playback (hope that makes sense), but when the tape is near the beginning, rewind either doesn't work or is super slow. For example, if I start playing a tape from the beginning, wait about 30 seconds, then try to rewind, it's really slow or gets stuck. Counter isn't working - Belt doesn't appear to be spinning Tape Playing lights I think they're on, there's definitely light back there, but I can't see it from the front. Deck light bulb is out I think this is one of those bulbs that has two wires coming out of it that I just need to wrap around the connecting wires, but I can't really tell. I have the cover off and am willing to dive in, but I'm new to working on electronics and tape decks in general, so I have a whole lot of terms to learn. For anyone who is willing to help, you'll probably have to explain things like I'm 5, sorry in advance. Here's a video of my unit - Imgur Link - same video, but on YouTube. And in the meantime, I'm going to do some more research and learning. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Astroworld was trending last night or earlier today; the same folks putting on When We Were Young put on Astroworld (and another event taking place in southern cali the following day, I believe) and there were comments about how ticket sales for these events are just going to cover the fees for the Astroworld tragedy. Ok, enough twittersphere for me though.

Yep, here’s the message. “Firstly, thank you for your purchase from us. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to supply your recent order of Turnstile Glow on LP (0075678644436). Due to a technical issue in our system the item was listed for sale in error, and we do not have it in stock. We’ve been working with the label over the last 24 hours to try to source your LP but this has not been possible and we have been told we will not be able to obtain new copies for 8-10 weeks.“

That’s pretty fuckin ugly

Ordered what might have been the last copy of baby blue, hot pink, neon purple w/ bone splatter this morning.

I was also gonna complain about 20-25 minute sets as well, but thought better of it. Seriously, wtf is the point? A band has 5 albums, each 30-60 minutes...and they get 25 minutes? Ha!

I'll be the grandpa for a moment...am I the only one who doesn't like big shows like that? Like, sure great lineup, like holy fuck, but I don't want to travel for what ends up being 5 days.

Fuckers

I ordered this morning and it was 46.99...they dropped the price an hour later to 39.99. Refused to give me a refund of the difference lol. "Our prices are based on cost prices we source products from our suppliers. We automatically pass on any change of cost prices to the selling prices. Unfortunately, the price you bought for was correct at the time of purchase." lol k

Someone definitely just bought 90 lol

Interesting topic for me: Analog childhood and definitely spent countless hours in front of NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1, and N64, but video games music never really stood out to me for some reason as something to listen to whist doing other shit (not playing the game). Fast forward to today, I stream video game content, but still...the music very rarely does anything for me, until I watched a friend of mine stream with the Hades soundtrack on. It was so fucking good. Another friend of mine recommended some of the Doom tracks, so I listened on YT. I was searching through some seller's items on discogs or ebay or somewhere and ran into a sealed copy of Doom (2016) and bit the bullet. I've yet to spin it, but it's here and I'm excited. I would like to eventually pick up the Hades soundtrack if that exists on vinyl.

Yeah, 40 is a lot better than 70-90 that they're going for on ebay.

Idk why, but I intentionally omitted the link thinking maybe just maybe bots/resellers won't get to it lol

Mine too.

I think that’s possibly a sober/religious thing.