The motor maker that makes smaller DC motors for cassette decks do not know where to get a motor like this. If you find the Teac motor makers let me know too- I have been looking for it and I have found nothing. 156 (156/1000') and if it is the same then you have your answer.

I have yet to compare a Teac motor to the Pioneer but I can tell you from the motor sitting in my lap that the shaft is 4mm or.

I'm envisioning a small kit of parts with a new motor, pulley, servo board, and mounting plate, at a much lower price than the new motors may bring (until they become unobtainium).Īnyone out there have a way of measuring the shaft diameter on a RT-909 motor? That experience makes me think that somewhere out there is a small motor that can be tasked for this use, probably with a redesigned servo board. All the other stuff in the book had relatively little markup. It was interesting that the huge markups on parts we saw were only on the big ticket items that are frequently purchased by the end users, such as motors, video heads, and video upper drum scanners. The manager of the parts department caught the instructor letting us 'students' look in the master pricing book, and the instructor caught a lot of grief later for this indiscretion. Motors that cost the end users $200-300 were listed in this printout which showed the Sony cost as around $5. An instructor at a Sony training class once took us into the parts department in San Jose, CA and let us look in their pricing printout. Having years of experience working on all sorts of broadcast machines in my career, I was once privy to a confidential Sony printout for their parts pricing. Somewhere in Japan a company is probably making these motors for $5.00. I'm looking for a lower cost replacement than buying the $$$ Teac or Tascam motors. It's working just fine and has been since then. Of course, the servo board is different, but I used the Pioneer board.

I have my RT-909 running with the motor from a TR-3000. I do know the motor in a Tascam 32 and the Realistic TR-3000 are the same motor as in the RT-909. Motor direction should not be a problem as this is a DC motor it should run equally well in either direction. The motor I referred to is about the same size as the RT-909 motor, once the motor is taken out of the external shielding can the RT-909 motor is mounted in.

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