Walk through and repair of a Philips N7150 reel to reel tape recorder

Decided to do a few repair on this 1980s reel to reel tape recorder. Although obsolete and not even all that popular in its time, with the introduction of the compact cassette, they produced a superior audio quality. Even today, could be arguably considered better than some compressed digital formats.
CONTENT:
00:00 - Intro
00:06 - Info.
00:57- Faults
03:20 - VU meter back light
04:45 - Reassemble
05:30 - Tape issue
7:20 - Demo

[@niallsommerville9813]

I like that LED filament repair, very tidy.

[@robertliskey420]

Very interesting. One thing I always had problems with was those that used light for the end of tape, finding a bulb to fit some of those was a nightmare.

[@tuopeeks]

Thanks, know the types you mean, even early video recorders used small bulbs and photo diodes to detect end of tape. The photo diode would be sensitive to infra-red and the bulb would emit in all directions so could be interesting but fiddly to replace with an LED.

[@T2D.SteveArcs]

😀😎👍👍

[@samuelfellows6923]

☹️ - you had the light level wrong when demonstrating it = washing out the analog meters so we couldn’t see them “swinging”

[@tuopeeks]

Yeah, did notice that. I had a bit of video close up shot showing the VU meters operating but removed it because of potential CZcams copyright issues with the music.

[@T2D.SteveArcs]

The guy makes a free video sharing a repair of this old machine for anyone to enjoy and this is what you say 🤦🏻‍♂️, I'm sure your content has absolutely perfect light levels and camera angles, oh wait let me guess "this channel does nothing" 😞