Quad Tape Transfer

08/05/2025

August 6th 1985. 40 years ago I was doing this. Working as a parttime Chief Operator/Engineer at WBEJ-AM while working fulltime engineering at WJHL-TV. It seems like yesterday.

07/06/2025

This is very bad news. I studied with Bev for 5 years. He taught me how to make tips and rebuild video heads. I learned from the best. ❤😥

View Beverley R. Gooch's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

07/04/2025

A July about 30 years ago. Mountain top UHF TV Transmitter maintenance. I wouldn't want to ever do THAT again...even if I was able! 😆 But I am glad for the experience when I was young and did it for several years, but I will never do it again, I wouldn't take anything for the experience. Like 2" Quad, analog TV transmitting is a thing of the past....2"Quad is a lot more fun! 😁 Happy 4th! 🎆

06/18/2025

RCA TR-4 Part Four

05/01/2025

RCA TR-4 Part Three

04/24/2025

RCA TR-4 Rebuild Part Two.

04/17/2025

New project for the Summer: Get this old RCA TR-4 back into running shape and upgrade the transport to a -60, and convert its guts to do 405 British and 819 French. Thank you Paul Adams and John Fede for your spare-parts-scrounging efforts!

04/10/2025

April 10th, 2019 - 2025.
Sixth Anniversary & 2,000 Hours.

01/13/2025

Since it snowed and is very cold outside now, this week I am beginning a new project today at The Quad Shop that I have been putting off for a couple years hoping to find a set of cables, but no luck.. 🤨 Making 5 interconnect signal cables for the AMPEX ACR-25-B. I am using some old cable and connector parts chopped off from three AVR-2 quad VTRs on their way to the scrapper. The cables and connectors will need to be reconfigured and spliced... Just so you know...that is 104 pins per cable end, or 1,080 pins (x2) or 2,160 pin punches, and 520 cable wire splices... I already know whats gonna happen... after I take a couple months and make all these cables, a set will miraculously appear from out of nowhere. I don't know how I would feel about that. Yet. 😣 Show me the cables...

01/07/2025

Bosch BCM-40 Quad VTR Rubber Pinch Roller Replacement.

12/23/2024

AheadTalk 12/23/2024

11/30/2024

RCA TR-70 Module Repair.
Finding and fixing a short to ground. This is a classic RCA problem with the old blackface modules in the tr-60 and 70 vtrs.