Good Luck !
have you applied contact cleaner to the switches ?
Well there's some initial resistance when the heads are raised as this is driven by the motor. But then when the tape is playing it's only the...
[ATTACH] Today I found a donor deck at a flea market. When I got home with it I had the motor out in less than ten minutes. Then I put the motor...
Beware with those red BASF LH super cassettes. They're known for scraping sounds on the heads.
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Dag Eddy, Bonjour Eddy !
The motor is about 35mm wide and the height is about 38 mm. Come to think of it it is quite incredible how much smaller capstan motors became in...
A quick update : today I replaced the motor with a motor from a donor deck. Unfortunately, that replacement motor is not as big and when I tested...
Good news : it seems my Siera survived the short-circuit. Today I replaced the fuse and got it working again. Even the cassette was playing. I...
Oh another thing : The Service Manual. I looked and looked on the net but it seemed that I could only download it if I payed for it. Then I found...
I just discovered it is in fact glue. I didn't know until now that on some capacitors adhesive was added to absorb vibrations. That means the...
And this is the Siera a few days ago, all cleaned up and awaiting the new belts :
That's very kind ! I definately had the power switch correct on 220V. What happened was that I started the motor by pressing play on the...
Hi, thanks for your reaction. That service manual, is that the one that became available a few days ago on hifiengine ? If it is : I'm the one who...
Sorry, it alsready late when I'm writing this. The title of the thread should read : The story of my aquisition of the Siera TR-5842 (Aiwa CS-600...
Hello, Although I was born in 1970 I never really owned a Ghettoblaster. By that I mean the upright grey ones with the big speakers. Until...
Let us know if you succeeded in finding them. Or maybe you have some broken glasses lying around. Has anyone taken this route before and knows...
Hello fellow Belgian, just went to look on aliexpress but they want you to buy like 1000 or so. Then I saw there that they are used in glasses...
Because tape "smoothes" out the harshness that pure digital sometimes has.
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