Hi All:
To the interests of those who have already been infected with the tape machine hoarding disease (with no cure but only periodic remedies...), here's the quick photo of the C37 that showed up at my house. I dressed it up with modern Studer NAB hubs and 12.5" blank reels:
It is a WIP machine with 5535 hours on its original runtime meter with no missing parts (actually with extra parts such as brand new origial Studer butterfly heads in the care package that came with it) but needing final feed and care to put it back to its original glory.
During a quick inspection, I found several roller bearings that needs replacing and the original headblock should be sent to JRF for cleaning and alignments at future date.
To answer Roger's question from the other thread regarding input power, the machine is an European version with 220VAC 50Hz. My solution is to use a PS Audio P300 power regenerator that will take 120VAC input and will output 220V 50hz. Only the P300s shipped to outside of US can output at 220VAC. Otherwise, I have a 1KVA step-up transformer that can take US version P300 with 120V 50Hz output and bring it up to 220V 50hz. It would have been ideal to have the US (or Taiwan/Korean) version C37, but I should be happy with what I have.
Thus, if our European WBF members can help me source a P300 from there, I would be much appreciated.
To the interests of those who have already been infected with the tape machine hoarding disease (with no cure but only periodic remedies...), here's the quick photo of the C37 that showed up at my house. I dressed it up with modern Studer NAB hubs and 12.5" blank reels:
It is a WIP machine with 5535 hours on its original runtime meter with no missing parts (actually with extra parts such as brand new origial Studer butterfly heads in the care package that came with it) but needing final feed and care to put it back to its original glory.
During a quick inspection, I found several roller bearings that needs replacing and the original headblock should be sent to JRF for cleaning and alignments at future date.
To answer Roger's question from the other thread regarding input power, the machine is an European version with 220VAC 50Hz. My solution is to use a PS Audio P300 power regenerator that will take 120VAC input and will output 220V 50hz. Only the P300s shipped to outside of US can output at 220VAC. Otherwise, I have a 1KVA step-up transformer that can take US version P300 with 120V 50Hz output and bring it up to 220V 50hz. It would have been ideal to have the US (or Taiwan/Korean) version C37, but I should be happy with what I have.
Thus, if our European WBF members can help me source a P300 from there, I would be much appreciated.
