The struggle to play Philips giant cassette

I want to show you a type of Philips music cassette you most likely havent seen before. I was very fortunate to get onebut it turned out that was the easy part. Getting its 1970s player to work took a lot more effort. 00:00 Backstory 03:14 The player 06:40 Giving it a go 09:29 Inside the cassette 11:30 Inside the machine 12:45 The Repair starts 20:18 A look at the older machine 23:27 Back to the repair 27:15 The result 27:55 Summary 32:23 Groovy credits UPDATES 1) Turns out that this system was known as Philips Functional Music What a fun name. 2) The symbol on the back showing a box with an arrow is the sign for Remote not Output. 3) The tape speed is 1 7, 8ips 4) If playback of the tape reels is attempted on a R2R machine only two of the tracks like up with the heads on a 1, 4 track machine