My Pioneer SK-31 finally sent to a goodwill store. One like this served my music needs from 1983 until the tape drive mechanism failed around 10 years later... The tape buttons big feature was that with the slightest touch, the buttons/levers would suck themselves all the way down. There was a servo mechanism that required the slightest trigger push to take over the job. I guess I rewound and FFd far too often for the mechanism and the steel on steel action wore grooves in the parts. Tolerances slipped and eventually they stopped working altogether.
Then it was relegated to garage duty for another 20 years for the radio. Should have kept it for that, but that's another story. There's an identical machine at work, used in one of the labs as their radio source, so once in a while I go in there and give it a pat on the the head. I think it's my favorite piece of gear I've ever had. It served me well.
