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Cart Machines...

Magnecord jobbed the reel motors off of Maytag, they'd hit warp speed. The concept was, strip a half hour program and load another during a 60 second spot. Sclly and Ampex claimed you could set the machine to stop without spilling or stretching before the end of the reel, but I don't hink I ever met one which would. I watch the old timers today using VoxPro with the console going from REW to FWD and then play out of habit.
We reseated eveything with sockets every month or so as a normal maintenance procedure.
 
When I worked production at a radio station I was at for 15 years, they had 3 JH110's in production and were run into the ground and still came back for more. The heads needed replacing and apparently the engineering dept couldn't get anything that worked so they kept the old heads in up until I left in 2000 at least. These were 80s vintage machines, one of which had 30ips speed on it. we usually used 7.5 ans 15ips.

One of the main problems with the decks they had was the pins that were in the reel tables to fit the slots in the reels. they kept breaking off. apparently we were the only station that had that problem, as engineers were ordering them on a regular basis from sony. I think a lot of the problem was that we didn't have the proper reel locks for the NAB hubs and the slots were worn in the hubs, so when you remind, at the end of the tape, it's flying so fast, that the sudden stop of the tape caused the hubs to break off the pins on the table.
 
Yes indeed the best selling part on the MCI machines. I know many Nashville studios who bought 20 of them in one order alone due to that common failure mode. Jeep overall did a nice design job on the early MCI decks.
 
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