I owned one of the famous Realistic brand open reel tape recorders. Fabrication was iffy, but with an abundant supply of paper clips and rubber bands I kept it in repair for ten years :-)
Mark L. Smith
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I still have one - it was a rebranded Teac X3 and the last time I fired it up it was still functional (although the rubber Capstan is starting to show its age).
I probably should retension the reel mechanisms to spec, but it has been about 25 years since I have done that sort of maintenance to tape decks..... ;-)
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