30 Nov
2004
30 Nov
'04
7:41 p.m.
In message <m1CZNni-000JDgC@p850ug1>
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Found it. Left side of the plastic top cover, next to the volume control.
Listed in the manual as a "Stereo Socket"; appears to be a 3-pin DIN with a
locator pin in the centre (?!)
OK, I think I've traced it. A 3rd party user guioe
('The Philips Tape
Recorder Book', 1st edition) states that the ST454 is equivalent to the
Philips EL3541 and the Cossor CR1602.
Yep - I've just had a look at some photos of the EL3451 - it looks exactly
the same as the ST454, aside from the case finish (mine is red and white, the
Philips unit I had a look at was grey).
1) The superimpose swtich (turns off the erase head)
became a parallel
play button (plaus tracks 1 and 3 together).
Mine must be a fairly old unit then; it's got a superimpose switch, not a
parallel-play button.
2) The 2 pin pickup/radio input became a DIN socket
(radio input and line
level ouptu) and, believe-it-or-not an IEC 5 pin pickup input.
3) THere ware circit changes, some quite significant.
In particular
:
It's 4 track, does it have a Stereo socket [3]?
It should do. Left side of the machine. Early models didn't provide the
16V for the pre-amp here, though. I think it's rexine-covered wood, at least for the
Philips EL3541. But I
can't be sure, and this is something that may differ between
Philips/Cossor/Stella versions.
From the "Operating Instructions" booklet:
Cabinet: Wooden cabinet covered in a washable plastic cloth with
polystyrene lid.
Controls look to be conventional Philips,
apart from the strainght-through amplifier switch near the connector
panel.
Yep. It's got one of those.
I'm beginning to think the brown staining in the top plastic may be down to
some foam (or similar) splitting away from the polystyrene lid - it does have
a "foamy" look to it. Next job after that is fixing the crack in the lid and
sticking the rexine back down in the areas where it's peeled off...
Later.
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... I was going to procrastinate, but I put it off....