Well, removing the cover is easy at least. Now, is the broken basket assembly the cause or the effect?
To remove the cassette basket assembly requires taking off the front panel (3 screws), video head cover sheetmetal (3 screws), and then 6 screws to actually unfasten the unit itself. The complete assembly can then be unplugged and removed to the convenience of my workbench. And, hey, what do you know? There is a transverse shaft which keeps the two sides in sync – it drives the left-hand side from a motor and gear reducer on the right-hand side. The little right-hand gear is – missing! Not just fallen off but gone. Apparently, whoever extracted the cassette did a little ‘clean-up’. No, it didn’t fall off, it is **gone**. Thus, I need one gear. Better make that two gears – its left-hand mate appears to have a fine crack just waiting to spread. Frank Fendley of Studio Sound Service identified the part numbers – at first thinking I wanted the large drive gear which has a couple of projections and a spring. This mistake, however, got me to looking at that part and noticed that a plastic po
