I was hoping someone had this tape not sealed ... I will never dare to unwrap it unless I find another one in same conditions; it is a time...
Yesterday at a flea market i grabbed this tape still sealed in its original shrink wrap. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] It is obviously a demo tape...
Hi, I bought this recorder too in a flea market and it is mostly working but tape speed selection (norm, hi, low) and VAS/pause are not working:...
I have a WM-EX652 in my collection and I call it the "belt killer". It uses this odd tape transport where the belt is kept loose when in play mode...
I recently acquired a Panasonic slim RQ-SX21 "as is" without any accessory. I have a Panasonic external battery holder compatible with RQ-S serie,...
I had quite success in the past cleaning LCD zebra strip: cotton swab with IPA, clean both the pcb and the rubber surface. Did it on a calculator,...
As it is mostly usual, today I came home empty handed; the only vaguely interesting piece was an orange Panasonic RQ-CW03, which beside being...
I was expecting high prices, but not that high. I will keep looking in flea markets if by any chance a compatible remote do appears. But 100+ EUR...
78 hours is marketing and, as usual, it refers to both the internal gumstick battery and the external AA battery. The internal battery alone is...
I miss the ability to set Dolby B, but luckily I do not miss all the sounds enhancements, modern in-ear headphones sound fine with flat EQ. If...
I checked a couple of service manuals of WM-EX9 and an MD portable with LCD display: the pin-out for the remote is identical, four pins for GND,...
I have three remotes from other walkman EX series, but they are all "passive remote" and with just transport control + volume. They works, but...
Yes, the EX9 looks almost identical to the EX900. The EX-9 Internally actually is not top notch, it uses plastic flywheels instead of brass as in...
Todai I think I got a good deal and bought a Sony WM-EX9 and a Panasonic RQ-SX21 ("as is", "condition unknown", no accessories) for 20 EUR total....
Today I had a bit of spare time so I decided to open it up again; if you are interested here a couple of pics of the tape transport...
A couple of pics of the unit. It is a reasonably cheap entry level walkman from late 80's, the most appealing aspect is the square boxy look...
A tell-tale sign that something is not fully right with the motor (or the transport) is the fact that with its original setting, tape was running...
Re-lubricating the motor bearing is part of the general clean-up procedure: I have added a drop of clock oil in the metal bearing under the belt...
Yesterday I picked-up from a flea market a Panasonic RQ-P145, a pretty cheap auto-reverse walkman from late 80's (it still has the square design...
Today I disassembled again the recorder to find the origin of the transport noise, but while I did not find anything conclusive, I have a suspect....
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