10th April 2019
My friend Dave came over to help me fix an old reel to reel tape recorder. I had to forgo my garden work. The machine was one I had bought in 1979 from Dixon’s in Weston Super Mare. A few years ago I had replaced all the rubber belts, but some felt pads fell off the pause device and I tried an alternative material but that didn’t work. I had mentioned it to Dave a couple of weeks back, and he was keen to have a go at fixing it. The trouble was. I had forgotten what the problem was until we went through each part checking how it functioned then it all came back to me. Finally we removed the pause function link and found the pads I had fitted had been destroyed. Dave was over the moon at identifying the fault whilst I was embarrassed at using the wrong material.
Later I attempted to build one of the gabions, thankfully it was quite a simple job.
Another Lifetime to go 