A few Weeks ago I bought a complete FH7 on ebay, after changing the Belts everything worked fine but only one day, then the Idler wheel broke so I tried to repair it, didn't work, then AK74 sent me his FH5, with broken Tapedeck too, I thought it would be exactly the same deck but it wasn't, everything is the same but there where the FH7 has one Idler Wheel, the FH5 has 2 Wheels with a belt. So I changed the complete Tape mechanic.

The FH5 mechanic looks great, like a new one, the only thing that was broken was another wheel, but it was ok on the FH7 deck, so I changed this part into the FH5 Deck that is acutally now built into the FH7.

And now my Problem:
A white cable (one single cable) that comes from the AMS Board lost its connection, I don't know where it goes to, it broke when I changed the decks. It is soldered so there's no plug, can anyone tell me where it goes to so I can solder it again?

Next Problem:
I hope it has something to do with this white connection:
All Wheels of the Deck are fine, all belts are renewed and the spindles that wind the tape have both enough power on playback and winding/cueing mode. It works perfect when there is no tape inserted but when tape is in it plays good for 2 seconds then it begins to rewind the tape. Regardless in which direction I play.

The optical sensor on the counter is cleaned and has new belts, too.

Can anyone help me with my nice little FH7? It would be very nice when it could play again.

Cheers, Tobi

Works almost perfect now, found the part where the cable came from.

Cheers, Tobi