Valentin and Raul, thanks for both your suggestions, success today: I had not noticed the blue washer was so bad, i tried to compress, could not,...
More success! Found the capstan had some oil on it, cleaned up again and now it plays the tape! still not assembled, W/F is noticable, still to...
Some success! found the short was between the battery door hinge and the body(electrical tech friend found this problem for me)... can see a...
Valentin, very nice tutorial: I'm amazed you find the time between many Walkman tutorials and this cassette deck tutorial, excellent work! And I...
i will check somehow, maybe remove this solder ball ... also worried i could have bridged over the top, too... it's so hard to see this area...
Question: the pin for the positive battery terminal "door": should that be soldered to the PCB? With your instructions (and Marian's on FYA site)...
Sorry Valentin, I read your message 10 times before I see what I did wrong... the second paragraph should show "FWD", not "REV" (I corrected this...
Sorry I have not been able to access the S2Go servers for a week or so... just got on tonight... I am still waiting for my new plastic spudger...
Question: if the square drive belt is "twisted" what impact will this have on wow and flutter? I don't remember confirming the belt was not...
made a sketch of cross section, walkman EX DC pancake motor: not to scale of course: [ATTACH] the central chromed pin rests on a steel(?) pin...
For information: the EX808 and EX502/508 (and the donor EX707) motor are each built slightly different than motor in tutorial, but I don't know if...
This writeup is very good! Can you put this on your "Walkman Repair Tutorials"? These writings are so helpful! You suggest super glue on edge of...
1) with the glue off the rim of the PC board, were you able to lift the motor without disassembling the two magnets and PC board? This would be...
OK, I don't have any more Sony with damaged motors right now... I do have panasonic twin rotor i have planned to dis-assemble This might be...
Donor motor is EX707, Clean motor is my EX808: appear to be exactly same motor... i would like to lubricate if i wouldn't damage the motor, this...
1) Regarding motor in EX series: I can't figure out what holds rotating assembly in the bottom pan: maybe the PC board snaps in? The WM702...
EX707 Donor Motor dis-assembly and parts: I soaked this motor assembly in "Evaporust", which is a non-destructive chemical rust dissolving...
EX808 mechanism still sounds "noisy", mechanical on the outside, i thought i felt a "bump" on the cassette door with a tape playing every 1/3-1/2...
You were correct, my single jack on laptop doesn't recognize speaker input, only output... I put completely new capstan pinch rollers on the...
Connection directly to PC input.... I can do that... sometimes I miss the obvious... :banghead:
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