Wonderful Wollensak 3500 Vintage Tape Recorder

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Wollensak seems to have only distributed one battery powered portable reel to reel tape recorder, the Wonderful Wollensak 3500 5-inch reel to reel tape recorder, released in 1967. Similar machines were released by RCA and Hitachi around the same time. This vintage Wonderful Wollensak tape recorder was made in Japan but sold under the American Wollensak name. It has a good strong amplifier with AC bias and is belt driven by a flat belt. It is unusual in that the pinch roller is located above the capstan, whereas most tape recorders placed the pinch roller below the capstan. As a result, this Wollensak tape recorder capstan turns in a clockwise direction, as opposed to the more usual counter-clockwise rotation found in most machines and always in cassette tape recorders.

This Wonderful Wollensak machine was purchased from E-Bay and came in pretty good condition for a 42 year old vintage tape recorder. It needed a new drive belt, and the motor is showing its age, as it is rather noisy, probably the brushes have worn down. The tape recorder uses an electronic speed control instead of the more common capstan sleeve change to switch between 3-3/4 ips and 1-7/8 ips.

It is a tribute to the designers of this machine that it works as well as it does after 42 years!