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<DIV>OK! that makes sense!</DIV>
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<DIV>I have heard about the deck tipping but have not tried
thanks for the warning!</DIV>
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<DIV>Ed#</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 4/8/2012 10:59:18 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
dlamm1@neo.rr.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Just catching up on posts. Did not
mean to imply that adding a hi-band head to a lo-band machine would constitute
the complete conversion, it's just one step. However, doing this on a TR-5 did
make the editors more pleased with the quality of video brought back from
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<DIV>Hi-banding was an expensive operation for a small station in the 70's. We
had moderate success hi-banding (playback only!) a couple well-used
TR-22's by following a homebrew procedure given to us by some helpful folks at
a Kaiser Broadcasting station in Detroit, where the non-RCA conversion was
probably designed. Widening out the bandwidth of the RF stages was a big part
of the process.</DIV>
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<DIV>One safety note for anyone working on a TR-5. The deck will raise up
about 10 inches in the back, making it easier to slap those heavy 60 min reels
of tape on the machine. There is a potential guillotine hazard if fingers get
caught between the underside of the raised deck and the machine's side panels;
and the deck drops unexpectedly. A single pair of telescoping square metal
tubes with a pushbutton latch are all that supports the raised deck. I drilled
a hole in the lower tube and put a #10 bolt through it whenever the deck was
raised, which was 95% of the time.</DIV>
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<DIV>The machine in the color photo looks very clean, like it had seldom been
on the road. Just hook the video out to an old monochrome Conrac monitor with
a decent sync separator and playback will be fine for a museum. Consider
showing off the unit with monochrome video in LBM mode, to get away from the
fuzzy appearance of color, due to the lesser-deviated LBC mode and dot-crawl
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