Vintage Sony reel-to-reel tape deck repair. As usual with equipment like this, the mechanism needed hardened grease cleaned out followed by lubrication.

Sony TC-377 Reel to Reel. Service – Wired Wood

Sony TC-377 Reel to Reel. Service – Wired Wood

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