About a decade ago, I found one of these (TK19L, looking much more modern, but still using probably the same chassis as all the elements are in exactly the same positions) on the curb. Opened it, looked very low hour (the mechanism - because from the outside it looked unused, the pinch roller had quite a bit of tape deposit so not super low hour), plugged it in and it just worked with good sound quality in both record and playback. No repairs needed. Actually used it to "master" a Worms speech bank. That button should be recording. Probably depending on the model, you can also turn it to switch between auto/manual level control and/or trick recording (erase head on/off). It ended up on eBay for around a fiver. I also found a Philips RK14 (which had a bad rectifier tube), but I'm keeping it as it's a four-track and very nearly almost all my recordings are four-track. "Lost to time" is also why I like finding old tapes in the garbage. And even if their contents haven't been lost to time, you still have to remind the internet it exists (like music that just never gets played on the radio). I often find hidden gems.
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It's Grundig's next wave of machines after the TK2x series. Some did have the Bulgin connector. They don't have belts for wind but they do for play - siimilar to the BSR TD2 deck. As far as the Electronicx go - West Germam capacitors are as bad anything that we could come up with! They are a good machine and the belts are still available.
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