Fisher CR-W35T studio standard cassette deck repair - No right channel

This one's a little bit different insofar as we're looking at a Fisher double tape deck, model number CR-W35T. It's an interesting deck which performs well when it's working but the deck itself is quite complex to get right and working out how everything went back together took me over five hours but I got there and deck two was stripped and serviced and back together in under an hour! The editing, especially for deck one, is all over the place due to the length of time it all took to get working but apart from a bad clutch on deck two which stopped auto-stop from working in fast forward and rewind, it's now working like a dream and has excellent wow and flutter which just got better with use (and since I did the initial test in this video).

I do have nearly 7 hours of footage which I may well release 'raw' at some point as a mid-week video - let me know if you'd like to see that.

Apologies for the bad filming angles too - a lot of this was just raw recording and the camera kept getting in the way! Funky tripod on the way!

Chapters:
00:00 The reported fault
00:58 First checks
04:05 Checking inside
05:49 Sorting the missing right channel fault
14:27 Investigating and eventually fixing the fast forward fault
35:31 Testing the decks
37:00 Deck 2 issues and complete tear down and reassembly
01:16:30 No audio issue on playback
01:22:42 Testing both deck - tape thickness tests
01:23:47 Wow and flutter test
01:25:40 Tape speed adjustment
01:27:18 Final checks and pleased it's working as well as it is.

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