Sony CFS-d10 this weighs 11 lb. Radios on FM. See the stereo light. That is the top and the handle does not fold completely back. That's as far back as it goes. Nothing to see on this end. The The AC input and it also has a 9 volt DC input. You're looking at the bottom now. This takes six D batteries and it still has batteries in there that look like they're old. Nothing on this end and notice how the angle of the handle sits as it's folded back. That's as far as it goes. Just trying to give you a close-up view of the majority of the controls. The only thing not seen is the amnfm switch and the tuning knob in this picture. Next grouping will be how I've taken it apart. See you later.
Once you remove the six screws from the back and also remove the balance and volume and tuning knobs then the front rotates up from the bottom to get to this point. Here's a picture of these screws that I removed that are all the same and five batteries that I got out and once I'm inside I believe that the battery compartment can unscrew from the main unit so I can get the 6th and last battery out Next I'm going to unclip the speaker power lead from the main circuit board. Next, I'm going to relieve the little black wire that was holding the cabled wire of the equalizer and I'm going to unplug that from the main circuit board. Okay that's done. what is inside now? Well that got turned. I don't know why. I know this at least needs the belt replaced. I see three screws I need to remove to get to the cassette deck out. Wrong, there are four screws need to be removed and once you do that you need to carefully unclip the tuning wheel from the main board and not rotate it because it will be coming out along with the string and then you can remove the cassette deck. This is one of those if you've not ever worked on these cassette mechanism before. This is one of the few like in some of the panasonics that I've done that you can unclip the entire tuning string part of the chassis from the radio without disturbing the string, but you must not rotate. The tuning knob shall show in a moment Okay and here is that picture. Oh God so! So the screws are in this position and that's the tuner and string tape deck Yes, that black squiggly thing in the above picture was the belt and here it is. So this is going to be easy to repair and clean. Although I still want to get the battery compartment and get that last battery out. So we will unclip the two plugs from the main board to release the cassette deck mechanism from the main unit. Let me give you a picture of that Okay, next grouping will be more detail of replacing the belt measuring and that sort.
But first I wanted to get the battery. The last one it was inside and also understand why this thing was so heavy there we go After removing the Large main board with six screws then I removed the radio main board with another three screws and I got to this point So I had to remove a whole lot of screws about 10 or so and then you have to remove the clip for the antenna which is underneath the radio board because I removed the antenna and that wasn't necessary. I could have left that in place. Once you remove that clip under the main board then you can remove the plastic container holding or hiding. I should say another subwoofer and also gave you access to the battery compartment. This picture's upside down. Oh well This picture is showing the folded horn chamber for the rear facing. I guess subwoofer which has a port to the front only on the right hand side as the left hand side is blocked so no air comes out on the left but only on the front right side. I'll be cleaning this battery compartment and the rest of this before I get you the tape deck repair. This is interesting inside here.
I rebuilted the tape deck and you have to remove the motor and this little part that I'm pointing to in this picture do get the new belt in. It's not simple. It looks simple but it's not. And then after I did all that work including messing with those little springs which one came off and having get a 90 mm belt around the motor and around the pulley and that was just not simple. Looks simple but it's not you try it. After I finally put a new belt in this cassette deck, then I went to check it out and I noticed that the reel spindles were missing! Now you need to scroll back up and look at the pictures of the front of the cassette deck like I did and notice that the reel spindle knobs are not there so I found the little bits on the floor and both springs. Then as you well know if the spindles come off, that means that the little tiny clip rings are not there. A long time ago for $0.65 including tax. I bought a hundred of these things and of course they're so small. I lost a few of them but I still have some, here's the part number. So after I put the spindles back on and the springs and then I got two of these out of the package and carefully put them back on the ends Let me show you how tiny these things are. Brand new on the ends of the spindles. Yes, this deck doesn't look like it has ever had any use to it. The pinch roller is clean. The heads look unused. Wow!
Got it all back together and played it and on this model you have to have the equalizer wires plugged in so you can hear anything through the headphones while I prefer to test before I put something back together. Of course this hasn't had a belt in a while so when you put a new belt in you probably need to adjust motor speed and once again get your jeweler screwdriver using a 2 mm flat tip and I stick it in there. And I listen with my favorite cassette because I know how it sounds. No, I don't do the calibration tape. This is simpler for me. Yes, the deck is sitting on top of a parts case so do not ground it out to anything while I'm listening to the cassette and adjusting the speed or pitch of the motor
31 July 2024 yesterday I got this thing all back together and I put batteries in it and it wouldn't work. It would work on AC but it wouldn't work on batteries. What's wrong? Well I remembered when I had this all apart. The battery terminal at the end of the battery case inside the unit has a wired it comes out of the back of the battery case and touches onto the back side of the main board to give it power. Well that was worn down and it wasn't making contact so I I here let me show you that Can you see the upper right of this picture where the black clamp is where I clamped a wire? That's where it rests inside the battery case when you flop the main board back down but it's not making contact. So I soldered a wire from that point to the wire itself and so now I got power from the batteries. Znter rechargeable batteries installed and it's now working. Yay. So I have put it all back together and I'm now outside playing and I'll shoot a little video. It all works now. Yay! Oh yeah let me show you the batteries I'll shoot a video and this is for sale if anyone is interested. decentman4you2007@gmail.com
