Getting my hands dirty on this tape deck - Sony TC-630 restoration - Part 1

After my reel-to-reel adventure last year (with the Philips N4308), you might have assumed another tape recorder would never appear on my workbench. You were wrong! This video is the first part in a restoration series on the Sony TC-630 Reel-To-Reel tape recorder, aka the solid state three head stereo music centre with retract-o-matic! We'll start with getting the mechanical section working reliably after sitting unused for decades... Service manual: https://archive.org/details/sony-tc-6... WARNING: Do not attempt to repair electronic equipment if you don't know what you're doing. If you enjoy my content, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/retrotech Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio Noise video footage by Milan Matos Electrocution logo by Nesdon Booth, The Noun Project