Sorted! For a miserly £5 I managed to secure both a 5pin din to 4x RCA cable and twin RCA to 3.5mm stereo jack adapter with 48hr delivery from...
That’s just where I’ve got to myself this evening! 5 pin Din to 4 RCA should let me find lines in and out and then I could always chop off the...
I’ve managed to find a schematic and it would appear, from what I can see, that pins 3&5 are line outs for my Hitachi. Aaah…. The vagaries of Din...
Don’t I know it! Busted by my wife last night too - why would I want to play with that ‘thing’ when I could be watching reality TV with her??? She...
It’s pretty old tech - even when I first got ‘into’ hifi as a teenager in the late eighties RCA was pretty much standard here. Hence my confusion...
Does anyone have experience of how to use the Din line-in/ line-out socket on a 70’s Hitachi? I have a Din to 3.5 stereo jack cable that works...
Hi Nick, I hope you don’t mind the PM. I’ve just picked up a Hitachi TRK-5280e and notice you have serviced one - are you also retro-restos on...
Spent an hour or so inside the box today! The main drive belt was goo, the capstan drive was sticky and slack and the tape counter remarkably good...
That might be why the tape deck isn’t working…
A wee bit more fiddling! The aerial seems like it could be better earthed. FM sounds lovely, even in mono, but when playing about trying to get...
New thread and some pics on the “look what I found” forum
I mentioned this in the Tech Chat forum, but this seemed the place to introduce a new project. Issues found so far are: Tape deck not working but...
Initial signs are OK rather than great. Tape deck is making noises, but nothing is spinning - I’ll see what belts do for this. No light on the...
Thanks for the input Gents, I had a bit of a dig around to find out a bit about this box - there was much more online info on this than the...
Instead of the Extended Stereo Pye box I was looking at, I’ve picked up a Hitachi TRK-5280! Well, I’m saying ‘instead of’ at the moment… Anyway,...
I have a Kenwood KX-54 that I bought from a summer’s fruit picking wages in the mid 80s. Kenwood branding on the front, still Trio on the rear...
Looks like Wikiboombox is back - and the Magnavox version has a page! Thanks for the pointer. So only two 10cm speakers, but that means relatively...
I’m watching locally for a working first gen style boombox - silver, two main speakers (and a pair of tweeters perhaps…), single cassette deck is...
I recently got back into cassettes after buying an old Saab with a radio cassette fitted. Dug out an old Walkman style recorder and now thinking...
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