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Originally Posted by jfrog1983
Regarding that NEC tape guide issue, when my N965U arrives, since its in working condition, anything I can do to prevent the guides from getting screwed up in the first place? I definitely don't have the means here to replace and realign tape guides, I heard its fairly difficult, especially since it's a Hi-Fi unit.
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It's not real difficult but does require great care since you are working around the heads and drum replacing the guides, then you have to set up and align the tape path and probably the X-value of the A/C head and check and align as needed for smooth tape path forward and in reverse search. Maybe you will get lucky and the one you are getting has had them replaced sometime in its past with the improved guide base ass'ys that have the little set-screw to keep the brass sleeve from moving. I've done lots of these in the past but not one in 5-6 years at least. If not don't know any preventive measure unless you want to try and lock them in place before they do move with glue or epoxy of some sort which I don't recommend and is questionable practice at best. Any I would see like that from a previous repair attempt elsewhere with glue, paint or JB Weld would always get new guide base ass'ys no matter what, figuring they would eventually work loose again. But finding new ones nowadays might be hard to do so there might not be an alternative to doing the glue thing to them hate to say.