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Got this cover kit in and had been sitting on it for awhile and finally got around to assembling it this weekend.

Been fighting this CT-F8282 for a while now. Didn’t know when I got it someone had cannibalized the clutch. So found one of those which took a couple of weeks to receive. Got it together and only FF would work. Whoever owned it before had attempted a repair I guess and installed the return springs wrong. Then the heads wouldn’t move up to meet the capstan. Got that figured out finally as they didn’t install the backing plate correctly. When I got it to play it sounded like Alvin and the Chipmunks as they had “adjusted” the screw controlling the motor speed.

Nothing worse than trying to figure out someone else’s mess. I’d rather just have a typical broken unit which I can figure out what to fix.