Tascam 238 siren noise and non functional

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Hello!

Just bought a sencond hand Tascam 238 and it powers up with a terrible
siren noise and it does not work. No play/rewind/ff... nothing!

I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me exactly what is
happening. I spent a few dollars out of my meagre budget on ebay and
now am freaking out over this.

Thanx.

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<nosferatudasvampir@gmail.com> wrote:
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>Just bought a sencond hand Tascam 238 and it powers up with a terrible
>siren noise and it does not work. No play/rewind/ff... nothing!

It's broken.

>I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me exactly what is
>happening. I spent a few dollars out of my meagre budget on ebay and
>now am freaking out over this.

Could be anything. Oscillating channels on those are more often due
to cold solder joints on the main board than anything, but it could be
bad caps too. No transport operation could be all kinds of things too,
but a missing remote plug (if the 238 has one) is a first thing to check.

Now you know why buying a cleaned and prepped machine from Boynton is
a lot more expensive than buying an untested machine off Ebay. Usually
if these machines have been sitting in the closet, it'll take an afternoon
or two to get them cleaned up and in spec if nothing is seriously wrong.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

I have the same problem as the other 238 owner. Sirein noise........ it's machanical.........I recorded on it before a few years back...........haven't had it out for about 10 years. .........got it out to dub my multi tracks into new cd burning program............... try to play tapes on 238 and get the Chip-Monk's voices.....the noise comes from the flywheel behind the tape drive..........please advise.........contact me at
< fourfour@hometowncable.net >