Restoring and Maintaining a Damaged UHER Report 4000-L Reel to Reel Tape Recorder!

This is the longest tape recorder video ever made by ClyderSight. The UHER Report 4000-L is such an important professional grade audio tape recorder and has such interest, it will be worth watching, especially if you are working with one.

Disclaimer: ClydeSight is not responsible for anything you do to your own UHER Report 4000-L or other vintage audio reel to reel tape recorder after watching this video. If you do not know how to work on vintage audio tape recorders, it is better to let a qualified professional repair it for you.

This video shows how ClydeSight restored and maintained a damaged UHER Report 4000-L vintage audio reel to reel tape recorder. There are many fine videos on YouTube about the UHER 4000 series of machines which reveal different performance and other aspects of these audio tape recorders.

What makes this video different and worth watching is the detail and description of the various parts of the UHER Report 4000-L audio tape recorder and how to change the belts, adjust the drive mechanism,. re-cushion the motor and check the record/play and equalization switches.

The UHER vintage audio reel to reel tape recorder used in the video arrived at ClydeSight as a wreck. It apparently had been dropped, and apparently a prior attempt had been made at repair (including replacing the microphone) which did not help the machine.

This video is a record of how Clydesight corrected these problems and show how to access, clean, maintain and replace various parts of the vintage UHER Report 4000-L vintage audio reel to reel tape recorder.


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Copyright Disclaimer:

This is an educational video, a critique, and report on an historic piece of vintage audio electronic equipment that is no longer manufactured or sold in stores. It is covered by the Fair Use Section of U.S. Copyright Law:

"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

The selection of original music played by the UHER Report 4000-L reel to reel tape recorder is original synthesizer music composed by Tim Thompson of ClydeSight Productions. It is titled: "Birth of Dreams" which is owned and published on CD and stereo cassette by ClydeSight Productions, who has all rights to the music.