Teac A-3340S

Love getting this old stuff in for repair, so many memories and for some back in the music industry of the 70s this was their bread n butter knife. Classic example of great workmanship and quality. 40 years on and still kicking goals.

All my old band stuff is on reel to reel

Said the customer. Id like to use this again to dump em to my hard drive, (tascam usb digital recorder), Cubase it all back up to scratch.

Belts are tough

Drive belts can be one of two things tough or flexible. The latter being the required attribute in this instance. The former being what happens to em after a years in the shed.

Life is never step a after step b, things happen along the way.

Remove the back mesh panel.Spool off, remove 3 screws and the wooden side plate. Allows you to reach the grub screws holding the counter pulley.

Next trick is a length of wire to hook down and flip the belt over the lower counter pulley. Hangon!!…New belt is too long. No missed idler wheel in this setup so they sent us the wrong belt. Return the old belt to its home and use the undo.

The drive belt on the other hand was a little smaller than expected, the old ones don’t stretch that much. Too short we can deal with tho and this was the main symptom of the problems so we continued with the install.

Manuals for this Teac A3340 are available on the net so just follow the instructions. Again using  a piece of hook wire you slip the new belt over the pulley. Make sure the 50 or 60hz gotcha dont trip you up. The pulley has two sizes…read the manual.

Ma heads all clogged up

I always take a poke around other known problems with these machines. First port of call struck gold. Well brown gunk anyway.

Spent a bit of time cleaning the moving and non moving bits. Wear was visible but they should last long enough to dump a few reels of music.

Love em like fine silver these old dudes and this one is in great nick. Oh the stories they could tell and retell and retell and…..