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Hello, I will tell you what I do with mine when this happens, I've owned mine for about 10 years and still is going: put a recordable tape in the compartment and press the record and play buttons several times(record and stop several times) until the h pitch noise goes away, and it will, what happens is that the record activate switch gets erratic or intermittent and by activating it several times it will clean itself out, of course the best thing is to open the thing and clean it or replace it, but if your recorder is as small as mine there is hardly room to do anything in there. This also happens whent the record function is not used often. good luck!

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They are trained on Lanier and worked there for many years.

All parts are discontinued, but [email protected] still has a stock of Lanier parts.

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Hello Normally Press and hold Tel Record and Rewind

While holding the 'Erase' button down, press the 'Rewind' or "Fast Forward' button. It will erase the tape while it rewinds or fast forwards.

I assume that you are in the States ?

Swop the machines over to allow the Physicians machine to playback and yours to record

If the second unit has seen a lot of work playing back tapes then the playback heads could be dirty or worn

Dirty heads can be cleaned using either meythalated spirits or surgical alcohol and a cotton bud or a clean cloth, there is even a dedicated head cleaning cassette kit available from Radio Shack .

Click on the link below

http://www.amazon.com/Radio-Shack-44-1162A-Cassette-Cleaning/dp/B000AN2L5E

To clean the heads you need to remove the power open the cassette door and press play (Certain decks have a small lever which need to be pushed down manually burt which is automatic when you install a cassette , this allows the heads to come forward)

Once the head has come forward wipe it with a clean cloth soaked in either of the above (I prefer the Surgical Spirit as it leaves no residue) You should see a fairly black mark appear on the cloth as you rub, this is the oxide from the tapes surface

To get the best out of a head they need to be de-magnetised which is not so easy

Let me know what happens

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Medquist fixes them for about $90 plus parts

Most likley it is a bad motor or a broken belt. There is a seperate motor or FF and Rewind.. If the motor is bad it is likly that the motor control circuit board is bad also (motor shorts and takes out the board also). If there is no "click" when play is selected it could be the play solenoid is dirty and not engaging. I have repaired thousand of these units through the years and in spite of these issues they were a great sounding unit.

BTW this is true for the VW-210, VW-260, p-139 and simular units.

yes I have two lanier voice recorders one left hand and one right hand one power supply real cheap do not use them any more . listed on ebay as lanier vw-110 standard cassette dictator. If you still need them. Thank you John

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I need a manual, too; however, I may be able to take an educated guess at some of your problems.

To get it to work (after trouble-shooting for battery issues, etc.), you simply slide the long "button" up and down. There are four settings -- all the way up is "record," then under that is "stop," then "play," and finally at the bottom is "rewind," which it does audibly. The two buttons beneath that are FF and eject (just below FF).

On the other side, there are four switches -- The top one adjusts microphone sensitivity from dictate to conference, the next one is tape speed (higher number means better quality but shorter time on tape), then the VOR on/off switch (voice-operated recording) which would start and stop the recording as you speak into it. Then below those three is simply the "on/off" switch for the whole recorder, so it doesn't accidentally get turned on in your pocket and you unintentionally record something.

On the top appear to be a few input jacks, one for a mic I guess and maybe other is for a speaker or headphones? Then there's the mystery button, that is labeled something like "# | / AFF." I have no idea what it does, but it may be to assign your counter number (counter and reset button on the front face of the machine) to a specific tape, so you can change tapes and return later to your first tape again without losing your place. Just a guess.

Here's some info I found on a seller's website - it served as the basis for some of my guesses above: http://www.martelelectronics.com/p165lp.html.

Good luck!

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There is a fast play switch on the side of the unit. That switch may be failing. Try moving it back and forth repeatadly to clean up the contacts.

We use this equipment in remote locations and have found that the type of phone needs to be a centrex line, such as is used on a fax machine. Note: in the past, we used to have to use an "analog" phone line, which is just a normal phone line.

You probably have two different phone lines involved here.

The m-3 is the same as the DS-3300 from olympus Check the ouympus usa web site for drivers and sw.

Should be a tape speed switch on that unit under the door.

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