So I bought this along with an Aiwa compo as part of a job lot, I only wanted these two & at £5.00 each I had little to lose!! They were both in a right state & not working - We'll concentrate on the Toshiba for this post........... I've seen these over the years for sale, but hardly ever so I jumped at the chance to get one! Nice little 3 piece with soft touch cassette deck, 4 band tuner, graphic & oddly, Dolby B on playback only?? How strange is that? Anyway, on opening it up, it was nice to find a Tosh built before the cheap & nasty stero's circa 1983 onwards - A great tape deck to work on just lifts out on 2 pluggable connectors for heads & control/power........... 2 belts on here both missing & a cruddy mess in the base of the casing Bloody stuff I hate it!! Both belts are square section, a little strange as I expected a flatty on the flywheel! Am I about to get caught out like a kipper here.......? Quite fiddly if you try to replace as you have to do it in one go or the belts jump off the motor pulley!! Hooking tools were very useful here Now we had drive to the deck & bit of messing around resetting the 2 control cams resulted in full operation Now to the control board & every slider seized almost solid, the worst I have seen yet........A third of a can of Service Oil (Servisol) later & we had freely moving switches & controls Now just a run up & test along with head/pinch roller clean, we are nearly ready to put the case together again! As usual with early 80's machines, the azimuth & motor speed were spot on, no adjustment needed, headphones used to test her out!! Just cosmetics left to improve plus both woofer grilles pushed in a long way How does this happen to lovely stereo's?? Paint finish is badly worn in places sadly & some fucking turkey has 'Cleaned' the whole thing with what looks like a pan scourer :O & ruining this classic 80's looker - Such a sad thing to see........I will be eternally looking for another one 'For Parts Only' so I can swap the cases over on all 3 parts!! - This would have looked so nice when undamaged! Fine tuning control missing so poor but functional one found for now......... & The sound: This thing really kicks & has a detailed & punchy sound! - Like it's brother the one piece RT-S782, this has even better sound as the 782 only has tone, no bass/treble & it needs that! The RT-SX3 is a lot better than the one piecer & has crazy amounts of power output too, the piezo tweeters could do with being cone types, but hey - Who cares when it rocks like it does! Another very worthy addition to my collection & if anyone has a scrap SX-3 please contact me! Et Viola: Hi-Res Images Here: https://onedrive.live.com/?id=BEA218B70F2B18D1!30878&cid=BEA218B70F2B18D1
Well done! Looks good, its a shame nothing can be done about scratches, I like to think of those as "battle scars" I also recognize soft-touch buttons, the same as on my first b-box since 90-ies, it is Mickey Mouse of all mickey mouses (mice?) but it was the one which pushed me onto the path or righteousness and away from iPod docks:
