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Blast has it, you just have to watch whats going on, and what its not doing. I have one like it and it has a really really good picture on the slow speed. I had the plastic brake arm on the take up reel break off. I got some music wire and melted it into the old brake arm using the tip of the soldering iron. The thin steel wire kept the "spring" in the plastic part and now its been several months and it works well. But switching from play, to FF, or Rew. I have to let all the clicking moving parts stop fully or the unit jams as tape comes off the reel. I have not seen the cause of the new thing as it only happens once in a while. This machine is worth fixing. Use a crappy tape to discover whats going on. And learn how to trick it on with no tape in it so you can see the stuff move that is normally out of view whan the tape is in it. Shake it upside down on a completely clear table just in case some plastic part is broken. The part will fall out than just figure out where its from.