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Spotmaster console parts

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Anyone have an old BE Spotmaster 100 or 200 series console sitting in back room for parts? Specifically a 8S100A or similar. I have a console that has been nursed along for many years, still on the air actually, but missing one of the line driver cards: 918-3604 from the audition buss. If you have such a thing, or know of one, please drop me a PM. Attacked it today with a can of contact cleaner and the old girl quieted down a lot, just missing one channel on audition. BTW same card used in both the program and audition slots.
Thanks!
 
If that's the one I'm thinking of, it has mono/stereo and/or other switches on the input cards. Soldering across the switch contacts in the desired position helped me improve reliability...and this was in the late 70's when the thing was only 2 years old! I don't work there any longer...but I believe they are still using that console.
 
Pepper -Tanner was an agency/production house which was famous for bartering anything for ad time, mostly on smaller market stations. They were also reputed to show up here and there with the West Memphis Housewives. Whether that last is true or apocryphal, no one wants to discuss. More than opne station headed for the toilet though, when they ended up having a large percentage of their avails bartered away.
 
Thanks Littlejohn. I suspect quite a bit of Spotmaster gear wound up in stations due to Pepper/Tanner trades. That was sure true for the early cart machines.
 
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