CassetteMaster | Telectro MR511B Reel Tape Recorder from 1960 @CassetteMaster | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 6 minutes ago
I get out my cannon. My gun. My turret of destruction.
My weapon is aimed. My finger is by the Big Red Button. I have had it with this crap software. Total video length it should be: 46:22. Video length of the resultant file? 42:36. This is after FIVE ATTEMPTS to export the file, each export taking over an hour for the software to perform. Finally, EACH TIME, when it gets to just a few minutes remaining before completion, its status goes to "Failed". I CANNOT STAND IT. IT IS PISSING ME OFF. At least it is only four minutes lost at the end, so not all that bad, but still, it is FREAKING ANNOYING.
So this is a neat recorder, made in the USA, introduced in 1960, for the 1961 line of Telectro tape recorders. Almost all American made, except, the original electrolytic caps (at least some of them) were made in West Germany! The rest of the electronics (maybe exept the resistors) are American.
Writeout to ClydeSight, as he has this same model.
I had to replace the electrolytics. Amp uses only four transisistors. In playback, it uses all four. Two pre-amp transistors, then driving a push-pull pair. But in record mode, only three transistors are used. Two pre-amp transistors to drive audio to the tape head, and one of the push=pull pair transistors to run the Bias Oscillator. Yes, AC bias and four transistor---An odd combo.
No, I will not go back an fix those typos. Just be glad I didn't let EVERY typo through!
LYNX:
1960 Ad:
books.google.com/books?id=oB0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=telectro+mr511&source=bl&ots=I1rQg5SzU1&sig=ACfU3U18PuGlKbp86Uf10o9TG3Zy0bUKmw&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiemcnF4-vnAhXIna0KHZrnBvE4ChDoATAAegQICxAB#v=onepage&q=telectro%20mr511&f=false
Too-good-to-be-true SAMS PHOTOFACT(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!):
http://sportsbil.com/other/Telectro%20MR511.pdf
Yeah, I couldn't believe it either.
ClydeSight's video (he has it in three parts--here is part 1):
youtube.com/watch?v=ggy1oa4utao&t=406s
Enjoy.
I get out my cannon. My gun. My turret of destruction.
My weapon is aimed. My finger is by the Big Red Button. I have had it with this crap software. Total video length it should be: 46:22. Video length of the resultant file? 42:36. This is after FIVE ATTEMPTS to export the file, each export taking over an hour for the software to perform. Finally, EACH TIME, when it gets to just a few minutes remaining before completion, its status goes to "Failed". I CANNOT STAND IT. IT IS PISSING ME OFF. At least it is only four minutes lost at the end, so not all that bad, but still, it is FREAKING ANNOYING.
So this is a neat recorder, made in the USA, introduced in 1960, for the 1961 line of Telectro tape recorders. Almost all American made, except, the original electrolytic caps (at least some of them) were made in West Germany! The rest of the electronics (maybe exept the resistors) are American.
Writeout to ClydeSight, as he has this same model.
I had to replace the electrolytics. Amp uses only four transisistors. In playback, it uses all four. Two pre-amp transistors, then driving a push-pull pair. But in record mode, only three transistors are used. Two pre-amp transistors to drive audio to the tape head, and one of the push=pull pair transistors to run the Bias Oscillator. Yes, AC bias and four transistor---An odd combo.
No, I will not go back an fix those typos. Just be glad I didn't let EVERY typo through!
LYNX:
1960 Ad:
books.google.com/books?id=oB0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=telectro+mr511&source=bl&ots=I1rQg5SzU1&sig=ACfU3U18PuGlKbp86Uf10o9TG3Zy0bUKmw&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiemcnF4-vnAhXIna0KHZrnBvE4ChDoATAAegQICxAB#v=onepage&q=telectro%20mr511&f=false
Too-good-to-be-true SAMS PHOTOFACT(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!):
http://sportsbil.com/other/Telectro%20MR511.pdf
Yeah, I couldn't believe it either.
ClydeSight's video (he has it in three parts--here is part 1):
youtube.com/watch?v=ggy1oa4utao&t=406s
Enjoy.
