Revox rescue - B215

[Yarrrrr]

Hello, first post here. After finding a B215 on the street(!), plugged it in to confirm that it was in fact dead. Oh well, I was up for the challenge. I have since recapped it, which has fixed the completely dead situation.

This brings me to the current situation - cleaning up the transport. I noticed one of the drives was missing a cap. My question - how do these caps (forgive me, not sure what these are called) attach? I have a pretty well equipped shop and can make a suitable replacement if need be, just wondering how it came off and what a good solution might be.

Also, has anyone found a suitable replacement (read: something I can just buy from McMaster Carr) for PDP65?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Yarrrrr]

Sorry about the pics, not sure why they aren't displaying.

 

[Tinman]

I think I know what part you need, but will wait for an actual pic to confirm.

And.... NO. Do not use anything except pdp65.

Marc

 

[Yarrrrr]

Thank you for replying Marc, your expertise is much appreciated.

Re: lubricants - I was tempted by Lucas 10877 (extreme duty gun oil) as a stateside option $6 @ oreily auto. Because it has a similar profile:

Specific gravity: .88 (lucas) to .92 (pdp65)
Kinematic viscocity @ 100°C 15 (lucas) to 16 (pdp65)

But then i found a cheap pdp option on ebay from germany.

I will attach a pic of the transport to my gallery and hope that works:

 

[Yarrrrr]

As you can see, the left drive "cap"(?) Is missing. The hollow shaft is octagonal with a very thin slot milled into one side about 1/3 of the way down. I was thinking this indicates a press fit of some kind, but wanted to wait until I hear from the experts!

 

[Yarrrrr]

Upon closer inspection, both of the hubs had cracks in them. Sooo, since revox parts are made of the purest unobtanium, I needed to make a new set of hubs.

 

[revox-b77]

Looking good! Curious, why did you use aluminum over Delrin or Nylon?

 

[Yarrrrr]

Mostly because I didn't have a suitable size peice of delrin in the scrap bin! I am making the gear that contacts the cassette teeth out of delrin.

The best way to approach this would have been to 3d print the peice. But I ain't got one.

 

[revox-b77]

3D Printers are sure finding use in this hobby! Best of luck with your repair. A very nice deck when working properly.

 

[Tinman]

Yeah, 3D printers will be our only hope for those reel tables in the future.
As bullet proof as the Revox mechanism is, the plastic parts will forever be the weak link.

 

[Yarrrrr]

Still working on this! Should know if my fix works this week.

 

[perryinva]

From a year ago? You fit right in with many of us ! My 1000zxL has been on a shelf waiting for me to get to it for about 6-7 years now . keep us posted. I can't recall for sure but I think the teeth on the reel table are used for a counter. Might need to paint it black.

 

[Yarrrrr]

Finally got it to work. Still needs some tweaking, waiting on parts from europe, but damn what a beautifully constructed bit of kit this is. Sadly the alu hubs didn't work out (lathe incident).