November 2024 - Halium Solutions

Fostex X-15 Multitracker Repair and Service

14 November 2024 (reading time 3 minutes)

Here’s a Fostex X-15 4-track cassette deck in for repair – owner had tried swapping some parts over from a donor machine to fix an issue with the head block plastic breaking (known issue with the X-15 portastudio), and got in a bit of a mess, no playback etc. First thing noticed, the four record […]

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Ampeg PF500 accidental blowup

Customer somehow inadvertently and accidentally moved the voltage selector switch from 220 to 110V, plugged in to hear a fair crack and now dead! Fuse had blown – after putting a temporary fuse in, brought up power slowly, could hear some loud intermittent cracks I expect coming from a partially shorted capacitor (which took the