HISTORY:
Sit down and I will tell you a true story ...
A long time ago, in the mists of time, our "Aunty" (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) were forced to offload their obselete broadcast equipment which they had been "hanging onto" as a condition of continued Government funding.
This situation created the "Golden Days" for many, including myself. If you were in the general electronics, audio or even video industry, here was an opportunity to pickup high quality equipment and their original manuals at brain numbingly low prices through auctions, Pickles had the ABC contract at the time.
While I was in the audio industry and running my business doing "all things audio except artist recordings" our work involved tape, all tape formats, and to see these absolutely beautiful machines being offered at crazy low prices was a dream come true.
Much to the surprise of my staff, I returned from one auction which a truck full of B67's (MK1's and MKII's) in various configurations, many with the STUDER NAB adapters still on the reel tables and meter bridges (from the many roll around trolley models) both in two channel and single channel layouts. Ah, those were the days!
I used a collection of machines as parts to create our dream machines for our business audio tape transfer purposes, the PR99, B67, A810/820 and I think an A807 - never did get an A80 "dream machine" unfortunately.
The "left over parts" from the various models were sent mainly back to Europe where there was a big demand for them, probably still is, so all the plug-in boards, motors, meters, headblocks etc have all long gone to other European studios for service spare parts or machine restoration.
While I would love to offer those items now, I "don't think" I have any left! I say "don't think" because I have tons of "stuff" still to be sorted through and I cannot remember what was placed in the boxes over 30 years ago!
Today, while sorting through yet more of my "audio technology museum" of bits and pieces, I did find this item from the STUDER B67
What's a B67? Look and drool!
I am offering ONLY this part as described and pictured, no other part and certainly not a complete machine (if you have already tried to lift one of these you will know why I preferred to part out the machines, weight training is required before attempting to lift one!)
To see ALL the STUDER B67 and related R2R spare parts that I currently have on my website, click HERE
Enough of the blurb, let's get down to what I am offering here ...
STUDER - Aluminium Block (Transport Cover Central Area)
Studer part # again I could not find a reference in the Service Manual to this piece of metal. It is mounted with 2x bolts with nuts (supplied) between the two reel tables
Material: Raw polished Aluminium
Single unit per machine
2x original hex head bolts with nuts are also supplied.
DIMENSIONS:
118mm x 16mm x 3.6mm thickness
WEIGHT: 16g
COSMETIC CONDITION:
USED
Clean
NO physical damage to either block or their mounting bolts/nuts
I do notice that one block has tiny, light scratching around the countersunk screw areas - I have called this BLOCK B so that you can select the block you may prefer.
Each block is now packed into a sealed clear plastic packet, waiting to adorn another B67 front panel.
