Look who's out of storage. I couldn't stand to have this thing sitting without making an honest attempt at getting it working again.

I could have swore that when I last tried to use this, it wouldn't respond to the transport controls. But testing it now, it is, but the idler tire is completely slipping. So if I can clean or replace that, we might be mechanically back in business, and then I can work on the Dolby codec that's introducing a high-pitched whine into recordings, which I hope is just capacitors.