Akai 4000DS Mk2 Basic Maintenance Pt1

Straight from the Delatronics Man Cave Workbench.

[@MikeMT29]

This video has been more than helpful. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge

[@chevvers]

Discovered this video today. Good to see you are back in action! You helped me back in 2009 when I bought a motor for an SRE555 (you were shifting Roland parts before your Brazil move). You were very helpful in your instruction in showing me how to replace the motor. Thanks again. And thanks for this helpful video!

[@shepardgrey6618]

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[@beckettclyde3301]

@Shepard Grey Instablaster ;)

[@shepardgrey6618]

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[@shepardgrey6618]

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[@beckettclyde3301]

@Shepard Grey Happy to help :)

[@jonvincentmusic]

There are in fact quite a few differences between this and the original DS not just the reel retainers, but mostly those differences are under the hood on the circuitboard. Also the shutoff lever on the original DS would shut off the entire machine not just the motor.

[@BogoEN]

Got this machine a while ago, just fixing it up now. Replacing the pinch roller rubber and doing my best to restore the idler tires, going to try soaking them in Simple Green the way some auto repairmen do here in the States for rubber car parts. Are you familiar with that practice at all? Not sure if you guys have Simple Green across the pond...

[@delatronics3257]

I used Platenclene (a printer pinch roller rubber restorer) to clean and get more grip

[@racebearstv]

Another useful vid - thanks a lot.Are you back in the UK now?Take care,wherever you are,mate.

[@darrenjones3784]

It's surprising what you can find on secondhand tapes.

[@bobsbits5357]

hi had the op amps of ebay for my akai 1800 deck 2 were bad

[@MD-gc4xq]

enjoyed your video, I've just managed to get the same machine as you show in the video and I'm finding I'm getting echoing when recording from my iphone using the input at the rear and also using my bose mini sound speaker plugged into the output plugs so i can listen to the recording, do i need to clean something to stop the echoing?, the input selector also works intermittently are these easily cleaned please? cheers

[@meandthexj.2500]

Ive got one of these. But for some reason, it plays faster than it should. How do I repair this?

[@mikelunsford7462]

Change the adapter that unscrews on the face of the unit and place that on the pin next to it.

[@jurgitab]

I got one of this units, but when I compare the source vs the tape recording, the tape sound much brighter and thinner than the source, that has not any sense right? It would sound warmer and a bit darker I guess. Do you know which could be the problem?

[@delatronics3257]

Check the tape bias.

[@jurgitab]

@@delatronics3257 thank you, I will check that!