MisterT

Gilbert, thank you for your reply.

Yes, I've tried different cassettes, all act the same. I can see belts and pulleys/gears moving, but its likely the capstan or idler is not being engaaged. I am deciding whether to remove the front or not. I would rather not get in too deep. A previous service did get most of the hardened grease out of the mechanisms which did help. The REW and FF speed seem slow, which also points to the idler.

So I opened up the NAK and confirmed that FF and REW work. When pressing play, I can hear and see a motor engage, but I don't see the hubs on the cassette rotate. One motor operates REW and FF functions. The play motor does engage and I see a belt turning a large weighted pulley however the hub does not engage the tape. Will need to look further. I do not see remanents of any broken belt inside the unit.

All right. Thanks for the ideas. This unit performed well under heavy use.

OKay, I will take a look. It's been serviced before. I think the belts may be okay, but I will open it up and find out.

I've owned this car since 1992. It is a permanent family resident, along with my 1959 Chevrolet Apache 31 Stepside that joined the family in 1988.

Just south of Austin, TX. When the play button is pressed the capstan engages the cassette tape and you hear the tension taken up in the tape but the tape does not advance. I'm the original owner and I miss using my NAK.

Anyone have recommendations? I would prefer a shop/tech that can use Nakamichi parts if available.

To quote a good movie..... Some people are Catholics, some are Baptists, I am an Oldsmobile man.

All right, I will stand pat on my basic speaker cables. It's funny how some other audiophile forums discuss spending quite a sum on speaker cables and act like they make a huge difference.

Well, I forgot to update this thread. Replaced all of the binding posts. Much happier as I don't have a random speaker drop. Now wondering if the banana plug type connectors have any advantage in sound quality over the basic speaker wire. My ADCOM GFA 255 can use either.

WPS! Rockhound. Good Luck selling. Look like very nice speakers.

Received the binding posts. Now I get to perform the install. Shouldn't be too hard. Many honey-do's before I can take care of it.

Thanks. Here is what my posts look like. I removed the red cap because it is easier to put it back on.