Hi Everyone!  I have several boomboxes with missing cassette doors.  Has anyone perfected the art of creating replicas, or have suggestions for re-purposing old doors?  

One thing I have heard works passably well from a distance is to cut plexiglass to size, photocopy the existing door or source a photo online, print the result on clear film, and apply.  Additionally, the same could be done to a more functional degree by taking old doors from a compatible box, wiping them with paint remover, and applying the decal this way.  Any thoughts or success/failure stories?

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Before anyone comments, I did this in the 1980s, without ever having seen a picture of an Akai PJ-35. Picked this one up for about £5 in very poor cosmetic condition.

I obviously must have had lots of time on my hands and definitely didn't have much spare money. I think the only thing I bought especially for the repair was the hinge and the red paint.

Everything functions as it should with the tape being ejected when you press eject.

The actual cassette holder is a modified cassette case, which of course was exactly the right size to hold one.

A piece of bent brass strip stops the door from lifting too high. The blue Perspex block engages with the Akai eject mechanism to hold the door down when required.  

Nowadays repairs around the house, and messing around on the internet seem to take all my time. The only computer in the house back then was a Toshiba 64K MSX.

Finally picture of the Akai in my study back in around 1987. I never had the Akai speakers so was using a pair of old Music Centre type things. One is just visible in the top left of the photo near to the "gun" which is a battery powered water pistol. I bet you can't buy those in Toys R Us any longer.  

Any guesses as to which pop star I fancied back then.

Longman thats a good repair, very ingenious. I love the picture of your room from the 80's, i love seeing things like this, transports us right back there!

Agreed on both accounts; awesome repair and really like the window into history.