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- From: ofer@CS.Stanford.EDU (Ofer Matan)
- Subject: Weird cassette player behaviour.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.232157.17885@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 23:21:57 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- Have had this problem for a while. Maybe someone out there knows something
- about it.
-
- My cassette player is a generic one that came with my Honda.
- From time to time when I stick the cassette it does not play. The mechanism
- for bringing the casssete down onto the head works. The light indicating
- forward motion does not come on. This has been happening for a couple of
- years very infrequently (every few months) and if I would push the Fast
- forward or fast rewind to the end of the tape, after a while I would hear a
- CLICK and the tape would start playing.
- Lately this problem has become worse. FF/FR still work, but
- the tape does not start playing for days.
-
- When this happens the eject does not work, that is I need to get the tape
- to play in order to eject it (sort of a catch 22 situation - if it worked
- i wouldn't want to eject it). The worst part of it is the radio does
- not work when a tape is inside (that is a feature not
- a bug -- Thanx to whoever deigned this).
-
- So a few weeks ago I had the tape stuck in there for over a week
- and then suddenly one day it started playing. I managed to eject the
- tape, but have not dared to put another cassette in
- that gobbling machine.
-
- I welcome anyone you has any theories, conjectures, suggestions (apart from
- trashing the player) to write.
-
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