Recapping and Servicing A Webcor Reel To Reel Tape Deck, It's Built So Solid!

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to amateur repair time. Uh on the last video, we worked on this webcore royal uh Regent Coronet Realtore real tape player. This thing is just awesome. I love it. Uh and it's working pretty [Music] good. Um I can't play too much of it. YouTube won't let me. Uh, but we didn't do anything to it. We just brought it up slow on a variac and it was working and it actually sounds pretty good. You can hear there's not a ton of hum on it. I think we're hearing the motor. We're not actually hearing hum. Um, and it sounds decent for, you know, a kind of lowfi uh, realtore tape. [Music] Um, this thing's from 1961. I looked it up a little bit, but it's tube operated. So, I figured what we'd do is we'd take it apart, work through it, replace some capacitors, and try to make it, you know, where we don't have to worry about the thing blowing up. And then I'm going to keep it as my realtore tape player. This thing is just I think it's really nice. Um, I love it. I've got the cover for it as well. Only thing I'm missing is I don't have the takeup reel. That's actually just a one I took off something else that uh obviously it's a little bit too small for these bigger reels. Um so I'll turn it around and uh figure out how you take the thing apart. I may have to do it through the front. I don't know. I'll see how to get in it and we can get back there to that amp um and start working through that. I don't have the schematics, but I might be able to find them somewhere. So, um, and I, you know, if it's clean enough inside, which it probably is, we can probably just look at the caps and look at the resistors and measure that stuff right there in in situ without the schematics since the thing's actually working. So, uh, let me see if I can figure out how to get into it and we'll see what makes this thing tick. All right, look at this sexy beast here. Look at this thing. To me, this is very well built. If you didn't see the first video, we were brag, they were bragging about it in their manual. They were saying it was the best one ever made. Um, so let's see if I can identify any of this stuff. So, we've got a transformer here. So, the power comes in here. There is a uh a whenever you take the back panel off uh there is a interlock switch. So, basically, they've got a little jumper on it. Whenever you take that back panel off, it disconnects itself from the uh chassis right here, actually. So, that isn't actually where the AC goes in. Just a little loop goes there to get the power off the set. Um, so the power comes in up here and then where is it going into this transformer? It kind of sticks out the front. All right. Well, we'll just start here. These are jacks. So, that says projector sync. There's a there was this little projector setup you could hook up to it. Um, here's transformer, couple fuses, some diodes, old school, what do they call that? Everybody Everybody swears up now. We got to replace Oh, we got to replace it. Oh, we got to replace it or it'll smell. I'll be all right. I think we're going to leave it. Um, selenium rectifier. I think that's what that is. [Music] Um, here's the motor. We noticed before that this seems to [Music] um only turn on at a [Music] certain voltage. which we, you know, we brought it up on the variac and uh there was nothing till you got to about 80 volts. Look how they have wrapped the wiring on the motor. Look at that. I don't know if I've ever seen anyone one done quite like that. And again, this is a 1961 model. It's got the white crap on the You think I'll live? I'm just kidding, folks. I don't want to die from the from breathing that or getting that stuff on me, but you know, you some of this is going to happen. Okay. Um, again, I don't have any schematics. This is basically the amp here. And then we have this down here which I guess that's the output trans transformer to the [Music] speaker. Um schematics would be great, wouldn't they? I'm sure I'm sure most of you can tell just by looking at the tubes what's going on. Uh to me it looks like this is two channels here. Look at the old school switches here. Look at that. Well, I really need to decide what all am I going to replace on this. the uh obviously the ceramics we don't have to I don't really have a great way of testing them other than everything's working right now. That one's myar. We don't have to mess with it. Okay. So, on this bottom board, I mean, the thing sounds good. I guess we could test the tubes, but really, what am I supposed to replace down here? I guess I could replace these two uh, you know, cardboard caps. I don't even know what kind those are. I've seen them before and things, but 300 working voltage. 15 microfarad. Yeah, I'm thinking we test the tubes and call it a day on that board. Up here, we've got some that are more obvious. Um, we got wax caps that probably ought to go, but you know, all of these disc caps are going to be fine. Do we worry about the diodes? They're working. Um, and then we've got the selenium rectifier. We've got the electrolytics, but there's no there's no hum. And how many of have we got? That's one there, isn't it? Surely that's one, but it's under something on the front, so I don't really know what that's for. And then we've got this one, obviously. It's a 40, a 40, a 30, and a 30. And they're all at 450 volts. Yeah, I think we're just going to do a partial cap. I should have brought I've got like a meter at the shop. I should have brought that home so I could test some of this stuff. That could use a little refreshing, couldn't it? Even the pots aren't scratchy on it. They just they just work how they're supposed to work. So, I don't I don't understand why this thing's in such good shape. I've got to just attribute it to the quality of Web Core. I'm not familiar with webcore, but it seems like this thing is really wellm made. What are we looking here? 450 volt. 30 microfarad. It's positive on this end, negative on that end. Now, what is that? Is that like a motor run cap or something? What do you think? Should we get the schematics or just wing it? Okay. So, I'm going through replacing a few of them. And um those ones on the bottom. 15300. Check this out. I've got two negative leads. Wow. So, you know, they're probably super high quality and but I'm going to replace them with these. I've got some Nichcon 22450s. Um, so we're going up a little bit, but that's kind of what you know, standard now. Um, here's the three leads. One of them just isn't connected to anything. So, that's just how I guess that was designed at the time. What do you think? Which way does it go? Believe that's it there. Yeah. So, that one. Um, that's a strange cap. Got the light turned on so you can see it a little better. All right. So, I got those in. Uh, everything seems good on that. I'm not going to do the electrolytics. I'm just going to leave them. And then there are two that are 2.0200 volt. I may have those at work. I'll see if I can bring those home and do that. I took the fan off the back of the motor. And there's a felt washer in there on that bushing that you can oil. And it did seem to kind of make it turn better after I oiled it. I put some 20 weight 3 in1 oil on it. Now, there's going to be something similar up on the other side. I was considering taking these off, but I don't really know what's on the other side. So, I think I'd rather try to go through the front on that to see if I can get to the other bearing. I'm trying it's, you know, keep in mind the thing's working, so I'm trying not to do too much harm. You know, some of you are already going to think I'm crazy for changing any of the caps, but I'm I plan on using this and just keeping it. So, I don't I don't you know, I'm trying to make it where hopefully it's as reliable as possible. All right. So, I think I'll put the fan blade back on and then uh I think maybe we'll test these tubes and see if any of them are way out of spec. If they're all pretty good, I'll just leave them. [Music] Um, I don't I don't think that we um I don't think we really need to do too much screwing around with it whenever the thing was working. It It didn't sound great, but it, you know, it's an old tape, you know. I don't The tapes have been sitting around for 50 years, so I don't know how great really I can expect it to sound. But if we find a a U tube that's just way out of spec, you know, we'll swap it just to make sure that's not causing a problem. All right, so we're going to do our first 6B Q5. She's good. Barely. this this uh tester I'm going to have to calibrate pretty soon because no matter what I do it I never get one that just pegs it unless it's a um a rectifier which you know those usually do that. So it is testing is good though. I'm hoping we can just kind of keep all of these tubes in here because they're all the they're all the original web core tubes. It's never had much done to it except the caps that I just replaced. Okay, so there are actually two in this set. Let me grab the other one. So, this is the second one. It looks a little less tired than the other one, but measures almost exactly the same. Okay. And no shorts detected. All right. On to the next one. All right. So, we've got our first one that we're going to swap. The 12 AU7 is pretty weak. It's coming up at like 60. And so I've got a whole box of them. And this one gives us a good 80. And you got to test both sides or both buttons, I guess. Um, so that one's good. So maybe that'll help us with our I think they use that as like a preamp or something. I don't know. Um, so maybe that'll help us with our tone a little bit. So I'm going to swap it in. And then there is another one in the set. We'll check it too. and I'll show you what it actually measures so you can see u if we get any improvement. All right, so this is the second web core 12 AU7. It's pretty that's about as borderline as you can get, isn't it? The B side of it's a little bit better. Okay. Um so yeah, let me see if I got a better one. The one that I tested a second ago was an RCA. the RCA. It's a 12 AU7A web core. Both of these aren't testing that great. So, let me see if I can dig another RCA or something out of here that test better. Well, RCA does seem to hold up the best, but it's about the best of I I can find out of the other dozen or so I've tried here. Uh, I would call that 72 as if that I don't know that that means anything on this particular tester, but that's what we're going to run with. So, it'll be better than the one that was in there for sure. One of the next two. All right. The next one that sucks is the 12 AX7 or one of the 12 AX7s. It just it was, you know, in the right on the borderline, but I've got one here. Looking good. Not bad on one side. I got to test the other side still. All right. I don't even think that's new old stock cuz look at the it's got wear on the paint, but maybe. So, here's the other side of it. So, I don't know. I mean, it seems to me like this meter actually works. I've just got a ton of worn tubes that, you know, just junk tubes. Um, okay. So, I'm going to swap that in. Um, and then we'll move on to the last two that are also 12 AX7s. There's a little sibling rivalry going on. So, this is the one that sucked. Made in Great Britain. Now, I'm not saying anything about England. We love England, but this particular one also Webcore is made in the USA and it tests better. So I just that's all I'm saying. That's all that's it stops there. Not saying anything past that. You you can infer what you want. And I mean it's not like it test great or anything. It's just it's barely. Look at that. It's borderline. Oh, look. It's going up. American exceptionalism. Okay. So, uh it sounds about the same quality, which is probably the limitation of the 50y old tape, you know, at 3 and 1/2, 3 and a/4, 3 and 3/4. Um, but it has much more volume. So, the uh the I don't know if I chocked that up to the tubes or what, but that we replaced or what. Um, but yeah, it's it can go much louder than it could before. I mean, to the point that it'll go really loud to the where you can't even listen to it that loud. The whole thing sounds um there's too much treble it seems like. But that's better. Yes. So it it sounds better if you cut the treble down, I think. Let's try the other channel. [Music] I finally play. So I take my guitar. [Music] So if you're hearing uh pieces missing, it's because YouTube is uh cutting the uh the audio out because they don't want you to play copyrighted songs. [Music] Yeah, I think it sounds much better if you cut the treble down. Let's turn it back up and you can tell me what you think. So that's with the bass and the treble about the same. [Music] I don't know. It just Let's try it kind of mid. Let's go. Let's go mid. Interesting. Um, these tapes that I've got are recorded in mono. I don't have any stereo ones that I know of. It's kind of hard to tell because you have to look through them and just see what's on them, you know. Um, if I put it in stereo, it just plays two different tracks. So, we can't do [Music] that. I think it sounds really pretty good. Um, I'm happy with it. So, I got two things left. I want to oil the front of the motor. I did the back. I want to do the front. And I want to see if I can figure out what's going on with the uh the timer isn't working. You can reset it, but it just so screwed up. And you know that it kind of helps you on a reel to reel. [Music] I have no clue what song that is. Okay, let's try the other channel again. Come on, give us a good one. Come on, give us a good one. [Music] Did they record that part at a different speed? Almost sounds like it, doesn't [Music] it? See No, they didn't. It was just a crappy recording. What's next? [Music] We hit We hit pay dirt here, people. Let's uh let's give him a little more treble so we can hear that good voice. [Music] Uh Ronnie Milsap played piano on this and he said that in the studio Elvis was telling him uh that he wanted he said something like put give me a little more thunder with that left hand Ronnie. You know my name's Ronnie so and so uh the on the left hand was Elvis's idea. Apparently, that part right there [Music] Yeah, they're probably going to delete all that. Okay, so uh yeah, I still want to oil this and I want to uh check this out. Okay, so I took the cover off the front came off pretty easy. So, a few things. There is a hidden adjustment. I don't know what. Maybe there some kind of bias adjustment or something, but that's under the cover and you can't get to it unless you take the cover off and it's not marked or anything. So, that's one thing. Another thing, the two knobs, one of them is the reverse and fast forward and the other one is the play and record. These are the nicest knobs I've ever seen on anything. They're cast or I mean it may just be I don't know what kind of metal, but they're cast. And I mean this is this is nicer than anything I've ever seen on like an oven or something. Just really heavy nice um knobs. Also, I I figured out where I got this thing. I looked it up. Um, I go to these uh estate auctions from time to time and I bought this in Lake Wy, South Carolina. There was a guy, there was a woman who was relocating, which means she's old enough that she's going into like a retirement home probably. Um, or maybe just downsizing, but apparently her husband had a whole bunch of collectible stuff and there was this awesome auction where they had just tons of cool stuff and I got this at that auction. I don't remember what I paid for it, but it would have been like $10. Um, okay. Okay. So, that's that. Now, the the this reel is working just fine like this to reset. And if I turn this worm gear here, if you go one way, obviously that's backwards. Um, if you watch, so it works fine if that gear is turning. But whatever turns that gear must not be turning it. So, let me figure see if I can look at the back of it and see what that is. All right, I see it. There is a pulley and there is a pulley up here and there is a belt. I can't tell if it's broke or if it just popped off. Feels like it just popped off. Yeah, I think I can just reroute that back and that should get it. All right. Um, I was able to get it back on there very easily and it's in nice shape. It feels just fine. Oh, and by the way, I was able to get the I don't know if I showed it earlier, but I was able to get the 2.2 microfarad capacitors and replace them. Okay, so that's that. So, I'm going to take off that other cover on the front to see if I can get to the other side of this motor so I can oil it. I've oiled this bearing. I want to oil the other one. Well, folks, it's viewer mail time. If you want to mail us something, this is our address at the store. Joe's Classic Video Games 139 Caldwell Street, Rock Hill, South Carolina 29730. Carav Ronnie Amateur repair time. This is from our buddy Dennis. He uh he sent me this. I have no clue what it is. I think he wanted me to open it on camera so he could get my wild expression. So, let me cut it open and we'll see it together. All right. All right. 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I've got probably 40 or 50 tapes that I've picked up in various places over the years. And my favorite ones are ones that are obviously somebody re-recorded themselves because like I was just saying, it makes like a it's like a historical thing like why did they think this was important to record. So, we got two here that are it looks like kind of serious, but we'll just play them for a minute. So, somebody has written on this funeral of E. It almost looks like it says Esi. I don't know. So, we're going to play it and just see. I It would be interesting if it's a like a local church tape of a funeral of someone that you and I don't know. You know, that might be kind of cool just to see what they say. I don't want to listen to the whole thing, but um here on tape, but it' just be interesting to see what it is. So, let's see if we can get it to start up. I've got it plugged straight into the wall power now. Um, let the tube warm up a little bit. The meter went all the way up. Um, and I don't know what speed it is and I don't know if it's stereo or not. We are on channel one. So, let's just see what we got. I still got it on three and a half, three and 3/4, whatever it [Music] [Laughter] [Music] is. It's backwards, isn't it? They didn't rewind the tape or I've got it on. I can't reverse it. I don't have another tape to wind it on. Oh man. To me, like that's a Franklin, but I may just be generalizing there. Let's try fast forwarding it a bit. I think we're right. I think the speed's right. Counter is working. It could be that this was a famous funeral. Okay. Yep. So I actually u I wasn't generalizing. That is Artha. [Music] Okay. So that's the left channel and I've got it set on stereo. Okay. Yeah. So it is actually Okay. So it's it's a monotape. [Music] So um I hate to try to turn the thing over. You know, you can stop it and remove the reels and reverse them and it'll do it. I guess I could do that if you had a um H well, we'd be at the end of the tape no matter what. So, even if I had a a one that will play in reverse, you'd still have to fast forward it to re to play it because it's it's at the end of the tape. So, we'll wind a little bit on it. You kind of sounded like there was somebody talking on the other side, but in the the rewind version, let's check in and see who's talking or speaking with us now. Oh, and we, you know, we just confirmed that it was at three and a half, three and 3/4 because u that song was playing the right speed. I mean, obviously, you got to I mean, you you can obviously tell if it's the wrong speed because it'll be so far off. It's not like they're close. [Music] I think that might be Chicago. Give it a little more treble. [Music] So, here on YouTube, they won't let me play u complete songs more than six or seven seconds, they tell you. So, if there's parts of this that are just choppy and things disappear, it's because YouTube made me cut it out. [Music] [Music] Okay. So, I'm going to carefully remove the tape and reverse it so that we can play the other side and see if it really is a funeral. All right. I reversed it, but now that I think about it, I don't know that that's going to work. I think what's going to happen is since it's a [Music] mono, I guess it depends on if it's a two track. If it's a two track, see it would it would so one, two, three, four. If it would record on track one all the way through and then you turn it over at the end and that records on track two or track three or track four. So this may be just um um the correct speed again. I mean the correct um direction again. We're on the same channel. I didn't [Music] That does sound like a funeral. [Music] Great. It won't let us like cue through. You have to stop to fast forward. [Music] That's so cool. They, you know, they at their church, they had a a real toreal tape deck. I mean, it could have been one just like this with a with a microphone setup or had it patched into their PA system or something and could record anything. [Music] So, they've got a funeral going on, but they don't have any instruments. So, they're just singing, but you know, And forever. and will be king. [Music] It would be cool to hear him say something, you know. Yeah, that might have been the end. What happens if I switch the the other track? Nothing. This part of the tape has nothing. Okay. Um, let's try rewinding big time. Now, this thing rewinds fast. You got to watch it or it'll run off the reel. Let's fill the reel up. See if we can get back before that. the uh singing number there. They didn't write anything on the back, but ain't that the way that these things go? When I had cassette tapes, I didn't ever write nothing on them either. And then I had CDs and I never wrote nothing on them either. How far will he go? How brave am I? Just a little bit more. You don't think it would break the tape, do you? Like if it ran over the edge, it' probably break the tape, wouldn't it? Is that bad? That sounds bad. Is that bad? You old-timers, is that bad? Just kidding about the old-timer thing. I know you're not old-timers. [Laughter] [Music] Let's try the other channel. one and had a big church all night life and came down to take off down there live couldn't trust people live no flection but bishops have places God never have places Uhhuh. but you can get in the habit and it's hard to get out of it. Mhm. Yep. And it runs the whole church. Not an elder happen to be a church. Everything works on every position in the church, general, local or otherwise, works on the shoulders right now. all at once. There's trouble in the local church come down in the general church and the bishops over having something he want done. He comes on pastor district. So you see here he's a training [Music] wheel and uh it's never been a close look and close understanding of this position. master and be because I saw it as a heavy responsib You [Music] think I must take under consideration brother Salone and his family regardless of how brother Salone treats me. Talk back to you know some people say well Salone is a devil the devil but I'm going to give him all the hell I can get. Listen but can't do that man's family got to live like everybody else. You just look out. S Creek is the church and the members is looking to the land to give them a leader. Listen, that's worthwhile. Don't just give us anybody else. Am I right? If anybody come, they hold, but I never respons you know us better. You know us better. Won't you say that? You You should treat us better. See, well, I have a hard way to go. The bishop was hooked right. Well, you know, I didn't know about the church. This is one of my problems this morning. The man come by, he knows him. [Laughter] This is This is But anytime a bull get lose your husband when he's up kind of like kind of sounded like he said something about somebody didn't the gentleman that passed away didn't like one of the other members of the church but was good to him anyway. I think it's what he said. And then he said something about you can have a an a habit that's hard to break and it'll ruin the church building. And he had a desire to build up the ruin walls of Jerusalem. Amen. And he wanted to go back. But he did this great things in this great house and didn't know how he going to get out of it. And if you know us, we've been ready to tell a lie. Pray with frame up something, you know. But he just it's kind of just sad. So Kane said, "Well, now what is your request? What is your request?" [Music] Well, he said, "I'd like to do something." There was a there was a guy that used to come to the flea market years ago. I used to set up at the flea market long time ago with Joey. And um this is something our family did way back in the day. And um there was this guy that used to come around all the time. And I don't know, I don't even know the guy's name, but I think I still have the recordings. But the guy used to come around all the time and I was messing with not one of these, but I was messing with a CD player or something one day, something. And the guy came by and it was an old older gentleman and he said, "Hey, do you uh can you take a tape and uh put it on a CD?" And I said, "Yeah, I can do that." And he's like, "I've got some tapes and I I want to I want to make a copy of them on CD so that I can uh give them to somebody." And I said, "Okay." So he brought them to me and he's like, "Yeah, this is something I like to do in my spare time. They were tapes of this guy playing the keyboard and he was just playing these like it was just like a he just had the keyboard set up like an organ almost and it was just [Music] going and he might have like some little a little drum thing going on in the background and he was he was just preaching over it like this guy's doing and it was just kind of free flowing. and he and um he'd get into some rants and stuff and it was it was pretty cool and it was just some old man with his keyboard, you know, and uh so I made I recorded him on the computer and made him into a CD for him and uh he came up there for a little bit longer and then I didn't see him anymore and uh he was pretty old so it's something you know he may have gotten sick but um yeah it kind of reminds me of that. So, you know, this is stuff that's important to people. Like, somebody knew this gentleman and made a recording of his uh of his funeral, and they probably had a lot of good memories of the guy, and so they thought that it was important. All right, so I got one more here. I'm going to fast forward this wraps back up how it was. I got one more here that I want to play for you. Okay, so now this this particular one, I don't really know what's going on. Um, it has a light side to the film, which is what's up right now, and it has a a dark side of the film, which is what's down right now. So, I don't know if it's only one-sided and it's only got a recording on one side and I'm playing the back of it and there's no recording. I don't know if those existed. All right. So, it's in a scotch box and it says recording both directions. And it says scotch on the reel, but it also says side two. So, I think it may be the same thing. Maybe we're at the end of side one in the beginning of side two. And so we we can't hear anything because it ended before then. If the thing really will record for 12 hours depending on the speed that you're running at. Um yeah, how long is it? It says this is a 12,200 ft reel. So it will record for 1 hour, 2 hours, or 4 hours depending on the speed. All right. So I'm going to do the same trick. I'm going to fast forward it and then we'll flip the the reel and see if that does anything. But I think no matter what I do, it'll only play that one side. Yeah, I can't I can't get the other side. But could you ever The damn thing might be I might have to get creative with the reels here. Huh? Would I be the first? See, it's spinning that way. So, this is taking it up. If I was to reverse it to where it was coming off here, that wouldn't [Music] work. They may have. This may be the takeup reel. And the whole thing's on there upside down. Yeah, that's how that would work, isn't it? It would never be upside down. You can't I'm playing the I'm trying to play the back of the tape, I think, cuz you No matter how you do it, when you reverse the reels, it's still going to play the same the same side of the tape. It's just it's changing the track. So, if it's four tracks, it's recording on one and three the first time, and then whenever you reverse it, it's recording on one and three, which is actually two and four, but it's on the same It's on the same side of the tape. I think they've got the tape wound backwards. How did they do that, though? How would they wind it backwards? Maybe it's just at the end of the tape. I don't know. I'll fast forward it, but I don't have a big enough takeup reel, unfortunately. But I'll fast forward a little while like we did the other one. All right. It does seem like it's on there backwards. Um, but I have put a loop in it. We'll see how that goes. You can see where I'm rewinding it. It doesn't line up the same. So, I guess it's probably cuz it's pulling it to one side instead of the other side. But it it does seem like we've got audio on that other side. Yeah, that ain't the best. But okay, I think it just fixed itself. Let me see if I can rig it up. [Music] All right. Well, this is pretty unfortunate. Um, it appears. So, I've got it where the black side is now facing up. So, it's trying to play that instead of the lighter side. Um, I think when I rewound it, it re it flipped it right there. So, that's why it looks different is because you're just looking at the other side of the tape. So, it's a different color, I think, or there's a kink or something. Um, so I am getting audio, but it's backwards. And if I switch to the other channel, there's no audio. So it's everything's just in the wrong direction. So it sounds very strange and I would make jokes, but it's nothing to joke about, unfortunately. So this is the little note that's inside of it. So, I'd like to figure out a way to get it where it's I need another fulls size takeup reel because then I could run it all the way through the other way and then simply put a little twist in it so that it goes back through and will wrap up properly um on the other reel. So, I I just need to get some more of these reels that are full size that don't have any tape on them. But that's that, folks. And I'm I'm not trying to be cute with that. I mean, I'm I didn't make it do that. It's just that's how I was doing it. All right. So, there you go, folks. But, uh, interesting. Yeah. Um, sometimes at these estate sales, you find really cool stuff. Just stuff that people wanted to keep a record of or or whatever. So, I changed out the caps. Um, got it sounded pretty good with the exception of this. Um, and I'm going to I'm going to keep this one as my personal realtore player. I think that's a really nice one. So, enough of that. I will I guess I'm going to fast forward it to find that kink in it and then rewind it again the right way where I can leave it and uh till I get another big takeup reel so I can rewind it back the other way and play it. Maybe I'll do that on a on a separate video later. I could put it I may put it on our Patreon. If you uh if you don't know, we have a Patreon channel now where we upload things that YouTube like music that YouTube won't let us upload. We've got arcade repair tips that we've called out of our other videos and there's some unreleased clips and things like that on there. So, if you're interested in that kind of stuff, the link to Patreon is down below. But we will see you back here next week uh where we'll do a clock or a radio or something cool. You never know what's going to happen here at amateur repair time. Now, if you didn't see it before, I did a the first Realtore tape player that I did uh was this one, and it actually caught on fire while I was working on it. So, check it out. I'll see you on the next video.