super-sweeper
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Gentlemen (And our Non-Gentlemen readers), dust off your 8-Tracks and have some fuses handy! It's Surgery-Hour (After Surgery-Hour is Happy-Hour, all vacuum bags are %25 Off) at the Kenmore Southern-States Restoration Center! Well, now it's the Kenmore and 8-Track Restoration Center, but KSSRC is more catchy!
We got in a LLOYD'S 8-Track Player/Recorder/Radio console, and so far all it has done is sat around in it's wood-grain glory. I brought it knowing the 8-Track deck refused to play, but at $10 I figured, "Eh! this might be fun!". It sat in the patient's ward until yesterday, when I brought a can of 3-In-1 oil as Calem instructed. I dived in, only this time with screwdrivers and oil, not oxygen tanks and wetsuits, the last thing i want is to submerge this thing in water!
The metal assembly gave forth from it's wood-grain shell, and suddenly why the tapes remained still dawned on me. this was not a matter of oiling, not a matter of a belt, not a matter of explosive 8-Track damage, but a matter of a failed design. the shaft that drives the 8-Track sits in a metal holder, but not a quality metal holder, for the holder had somehow snapped off of where it was screwed into the machine! i was dumbstruck, what was I to do about this? Gluing it would be silly, it's putting a band-aid on an impact crater. I looked to my "Desk Ornament", a Sears 8-Track player and Radio. it's been
silent since the 1970s, when the same friend who gave me it tore the speaker jack out of the back! This Sears may never speak until it's day has come, but it might very well help this Llyod's (Any idea on that name? a department store perhaps?) gain it's voice. I dived in (again, no water!) again, this time into the Sears. I reach the Tape Deck, and find that they are nothing alike. determined, my inner redneck/handyman skills come into play, and i wonder if the drive-shaft from the Sears will fit the Llyod's. I removed it, and reassembled the Sears player. The screw holes did not line up, but i made them. not by drill, but by clever and perfect positioning. within no-time, I was ready for a test-drive!
Did it work? Find out below! and then read the next post after you watch the lovely VHS quality video!
[this post was last edited: 9/7/2014-01:42]
http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktGACMlr1g&feature=youtu.be
We got in a LLOYD'S 8-Track Player/Recorder/Radio console, and so far all it has done is sat around in it's wood-grain glory. I brought it knowing the 8-Track deck refused to play, but at $10 I figured, "Eh! this might be fun!". It sat in the patient's ward until yesterday, when I brought a can of 3-In-1 oil as Calem instructed. I dived in, only this time with screwdrivers and oil, not oxygen tanks and wetsuits, the last thing i want is to submerge this thing in water!
The metal assembly gave forth from it's wood-grain shell, and suddenly why the tapes remained still dawned on me. this was not a matter of oiling, not a matter of a belt, not a matter of explosive 8-Track damage, but a matter of a failed design. the shaft that drives the 8-Track sits in a metal holder, but not a quality metal holder, for the holder had somehow snapped off of where it was screwed into the machine! i was dumbstruck, what was I to do about this? Gluing it would be silly, it's putting a band-aid on an impact crater. I looked to my "Desk Ornament", a Sears 8-Track player and Radio. it's been
silent since the 1970s, when the same friend who gave me it tore the speaker jack out of the back! This Sears may never speak until it's day has come, but it might very well help this Llyod's (Any idea on that name? a department store perhaps?) gain it's voice. I dived in (again, no water!) again, this time into the Sears. I reach the Tape Deck, and find that they are nothing alike. determined, my inner redneck/handyman skills come into play, and i wonder if the drive-shaft from the Sears will fit the Llyod's. I removed it, and reassembled the Sears player. The screw holes did not line up, but i made them. not by drill, but by clever and perfect positioning. within no-time, I was ready for a test-drive!
Did it work? Find out below! and then read the next post after you watch the lovely VHS quality video!
[this post was last edited: 9/7/2014-01:42]
http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktGACMlr1g&feature=youtu.be
