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Cassette multitrack recorder repair service.
Owned & operated by Jack Saturn in Huntsville, AL, USA. #recdel

Contact: https://recdel.com/contact
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Recursive Delete Audio/Visual @recdel.com · Mar 1
I'm in the process of DM-ing all 3200+ of my IG followers, one by one, to get 'em to move over here. (No joke!)

Perhaps you heard my plea? Reply with your name, location and favorite cassette multitrack machine — I'll add your account to a public Bluesky List I'm creating of 4-track users! #recdel
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
you don't have to acknowledge the legit use cases for AI when you hate on AI. you can just hate. the legit use cases will be fine
June 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Does this mean I need to share 9 or 10 ways that I’m still using a 1st-gen iPhone SE from 2016?
ifixit.com iFixit @ifixit.com · Jun 2
You can keep your phone for at least five years. That reduces pollution from manufacturing new phones and keeps waste out of landfills! Here's how.
June 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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phreakatron.bsky.social
A cool look at the video store that I’m always renting movies from here in Huntsville!

youtu.be/Kpi7Y6BjdGo?...
An inside look at Huntsville, AL's only video rental store
YouTube video by Hville Blast
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June 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I have a Tascam 424mkIII multitrack cassette recorder going out for sale to my e-mail list at 6 PM Central! (If you're in the market for a 4-track and you're not already on the list, I encourage you to join: recdel.com/list ) #recdel #4track
A top-down view of a blue Tascam 424mkIII multitrack cassette recorder, sitting on a blank, off-white surface.
May 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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steg68.bsky.social
Forget launching your new album on vinyl or cassette or as hand written sheet music - why not release it as it was meant to be heard - playing on a tinny telephone line as you wait 30 minutes for a call centre to put you through to the right department
May 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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aclu.org
"Why do faceless politicians have the power to strip human beings of their divine moments?”

Mahmoud Khalil shares a public letter to his 3 week old son, who he hasn't been allowed to meet because ICE is keeping him detained for his speech in support of Palestinian rights.
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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sitenonsite.com
Testing another USB-powered field setup in the garden, and it might be my new fave. Midi keys into Ableton Move; Portastudio 414 for tape textures, loops, pedal Send & return and overall mixer, all being captured (along with environment) by DR-40.
Image shows music equipment arranged on two low tables on a rug. Midi keys, Ableton Move, Portastudio 414, Mood pedal, and lots of wires and USB charging brick, all going into a DR-40 recorder.
May 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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moviemadness.org
Don’t call it a comeback! We know that #PhysicalMedia is here to stay.
Cassette tapes make a comeback at the first-ever NYC Tape Fair in Bushwick on April 27 • Brooklyn Paper
Cassette and VHS tapes once ruled the world of entertainment — but, just a half-century after they came on the scene, they’ve largely gone the way of the dodo.
www.brooklynpaper.com
April 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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As is common with the Tascam 424mkII, there was a very minor crack extending outward from one of the PCB screw holes — in this case it prevented tracks 2 & 3 from recording/playing back consistently. I probed the broken signal paths and installed four jumper wires to correct the problem. #recdel
A close-up of the underside of the R/P PCB of a Tascam 424mkII multitrack cassette recorder, where four jumper wires (red, white, blue and yellow) have been installed to bridge a crack. The location of the crack has been noted with a line from a Sharpie marker. A close-up of the underside of the R/P PCB of a Tascam 424mkII multitrack cassette recorder, where four jumper wires (red, white, blue and yellow) have been installed to bridge a crack. The location of the crack has been noted with a line from a Sharpie marker. On the rear of a Tascam 424mkII multitrack cassette recorder is a silver foil sticker for a now-defunct repair shop, Express Music in Spartanburg, SC, where this machine was likely worked on back in the day.
April 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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manton.org
In the Bluesky announcement about checkmark verification is the tidbit that 270k accounts have linked their username and domain name. 270k custom domains! That is very cool and a great sign for the open web.
April 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Exciting news for Huntsville punk rockers of a certain age — and the vegan pizza is just a bonus: www.al.com/life/2025/04...
Legendary Huntsville music venue’s long-delayed reboot has new life
"They’ll be better operators than I would be," building owner says.
www.al.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Marantz didn't make it easy to reach the PMD 740's headphone jacks! These two had broken solder joints, so I had to partially remove a number of layers of PCBs to reach and reflow them. Also, check out the straight-up *mud* that I cleaned out of the faders! #recdel
A view from underneath the R/P PCB of the Marantz PMD 740 multitrack cassette recorder. The PCB, which is bright green, is being partially propped up by a black Maxell cassette tape standing on its side. A disassembled slide potentiometer fader taken out of a Marantz PMD 740 multitrack cassette recorder for cleaning. The residue and debris that had built up on the track and in the wipers of this fader almost has the consistency of mud. A close-up view of a disassembled slide potentiometer fader, taken out of a Marantz PMD 740 multitrack cassette recorder for cleaning. The residue and debris that had built up on the track and in the wipers of this fader almost has the consistency of mud.
April 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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bennjordan.bsky.social
I do love a good streaming service crash to remind people that they got lulled into an ecosystem where they own nothing.
April 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Abolish ICE.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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yellowfund.bsky.social
Yellowhammer Fund won its lawsuit against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. The court made it clear: Alabama’s laws do not extend beyond state lines to penalize people for getting or assisting with legal healthcare elsewhere.
March 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
recdel.com
Replaced the broken Clutch Assembly in a Marantz PMD 720. (Left is the old one, right is the new one.) Play didn't work when it arrived, now it does! Also cleaned up some evidence of a previous insect infestation. This machine just needs cleaning and testing before returning to the client. #recdel
On top of a clear ESD plastic bag sits two Clutch Assembly parts which go in Marantz PMD 720 and PMD 740 multitrack cassette recorders. The assembly on the left is missing its spring and bushing; the one on the right is complete. The removed VU meters from a Marantz PMD 720 multitrack cassette recorder. (The machine itself can be seen in the background.) The metal bar behind the meters has a bunch of debris and residue left over from a insects having previously lived in the machine.
April 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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indivisible5al.bsky.social
Join us on Saturday, April 5th as we team up with the 50501 Movement & Women’s March for Huntsville’s involvement in the MASSIVE national day of action across the US! #Indivisible #NorthAlabama #District5 #Alabama #Huntsville @indivisible.org
March 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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We spent a number of hours today A/B testing a handful of Library of Congress C-1 machines, swapping parts/tires in and out. The goal: to deduce why some have sluggish FF/RW yet others don't. Getting to the bottom of it! Next we'll swap in a NOS capstan motor to gauge improvement. #recdel
Two yellow Library of Congress C-1 cassette players rest on a white table, face down, with their back covers removed. This has exposed various internal PCBs, the motor and the rear of the cassette mechanism, with belts and pulleys visible.
April 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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tomflood.bsky.social
Large format Auto Freedom banner in Rhode Island.

📸 ‪ @jennybikes.bsky.social
Large b/w banner on the side of a building: bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise
March 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Replacing the capstan motor in a client's Tascam 424mkIII, I noticed the motor wiggling due to hardened rubber grommets. Replaced 'em with still-flexible ones from another machine. Next I'll be 🕵️‍♀️-ing around McMaster-Carr, hoping to stock future replacements. #recdel
An EG-530KD-2B capstan motor, freshly removed from a Tascam 424mkII multitrack cassette recorder, sits on its back on top of a plastic bag, which itself is on top of a Tascam Porta05 machine. There are three black rubber vibration grommets resting on top of it.
March 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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self.agency
happy trans day of visibility
not gay as in the supreme court gave me my right to get married but queer as in trans women throwing bricks at cops gave me my right to get married
March 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Got a working record/playback head transplanted into this Tascam 464. Track 1's record level needed slight adjustment after that, but then all tracks were recording at an equal volume. Satisfying to finally get this machine to the 🏁 line. #recdel
A close-up of a record/playback tape head before it was installed in a Tascam 464 multitrack cassette recorder. The head sits on top of a plastic bag, which itself rests on the LCD screen of the 464 unit. A Tascam 464 multitrack cassette recorder sits on a black rubber workshop floor, with cassettes and cables nearby. A view from the underside of the erase and record/playback heads, from the tape mechanism of a Tascam 464 multitrack cassette recorder. A view from the underside of the erase and record/playback heads, from the tape mechanism of a Tascam 464 multitrack cassette recorder.
March 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."
jmiers230.bsky.social Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · Mar 27
I get the knee-jerk reaction against generative AI, especially with how much of it gets wrapped up in the whole Silicon Valley tech-bro culture.

But I fear we’re seriously missing the mark in writing it off entirely like this. There’s a ton of creativity happening with advanced prompt engineering.
chuckwendig.bsky.social Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Mar 27
I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.
March 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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More progress today on a trio of Akai MG614 units. Machine #1 had a broken, unfixable door, so I drilled a hole and bent a paperclip into place — see pics! — allowing a spring to attach and the Eject function to work despite the broken plastic. (Details about the other two in the comments). #recdel
A paperclip is bent through and around a Slide Eject black plastic part which has been removed from the tape mechanism of an Akai MG614 multitrack cassette recorder. A gloved hand is holding the part in front of a yellow wall. A paperclip is bent through and around a Slide Eject black plastic part which has been removed from the tape mechanism of an Akai MG614 multitrack cassette recorder. A gloved hand is holding the part in front of a yellow wall. A close-up, shadowy side view of the tape mechanism from an Akai MG614. A spring grips the newly installed paperclip attached to the (unseen in his photo) Slide Eject plastic.
March 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM