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powerdoc
08-15-2009, 07:33 PM
I just picked up one of these today. My deceased father-in-law was in the stereo business in Columbia SC in the 50's/60's and had one of these at home. I got all the tapes he had after my wife's mother died. Most of the tapes are jazz/easy listening types which I want to digitize and put on disks as the tapes are degrading and have mucho crosstalk/print-through. I need some info on this deck and possible sources of belts/pinch rollers etc. Thought I'd have an easy time Googling it but many of the references no longer exist. Any help out there?

mhardy6647
08-15-2009, 07:54 PM
Model number? I can check old Allied and Harvey Radio catalogs.
It might be worth perusing www.radioshackcatalogs.com
It would probably be worthwhile to check:
http://reel2reeltexas.com/catIndex.html

powerdoc
08-15-2009, 10:21 PM
It's not in it's original case; haven't scoured over it to find a serial # yet. Thanks for the url of r2rtexas; in the '62 Allied it has it, looks like a 934.

KentTeffeteller
08-16-2009, 08:27 AM
John Warmack of Warmack Distributing has parts for this machine and all other Ampex consumer/educational division machines. His contact information can be found at www.recordist.com/ampex under "Ampex Parts and Repair Sources"