Anyone have a pinch roller cap for an Otari MX50N? I can't find one to save my life and really hate to have to part this machine out

So all new caps, only new caps. Everything else untouched, likely a few drifted resistors but next chassis pull maybe.

Two excerpts of a piano concerto from a period stereo Red Seal recording, summed to mono and fed directly to the phono input.

So a test of all recording and playback network.

The motor clack is next.

And I’m using this to learn how to record on my Panasonic RS-761S machine.

Which turns out to be convoluted. I have to manually press two channel buttons, which will not activate unless I bring the notch to the “Pause” button.

Then and only then will the deck recognize audio is coming into the unit. At which point, I can set my levels.

But my Panasonic doesn’t have a “Record” button. So how do I do it? By moving the notch to “Play” which results in recording.

And to stop recording, I move the notch to “Stop”—not “Pause”—which loosens the two channel buttons.