Another one of those things I never knew I wanted. Until now!
With you on tapes over vinyl - for me, it's the sheer effort of finding tapes these days that makes them all the more worthwhile.
I added the notes below to a post about a problem with DRM800A. DR-M30HX appears to have a similar mecha so this may be applicable: These decks...
These decks (DRM800, in my specific experience) seem to have a general weakness in that the *supply* spindle's axle can creep forward out of its...
I should have been clear about the construction of the cassette! Screwed ones, pretty easy; glued ones, often a matter of luck (or age) as to how...
You could replace a full Type 1 (including the spring) with a Type 2, *if* there is a good enough base area to glue the Type 2 pad to. It's very...
I will try to upgrade my search engine to a hope-driven one :nwink:
Thank you Mister X. That's exactly what I need. No search I've done has brought that up!
I'm aware of two basic types of pressure pad in cassette tapes. Type 1, I'll call it, is a thin pad mounted on a thin & springy piece of metal....
To be quite "crude" you could just use the sticky part of a Post-It note!
One good (and relatively low effort) avenue to explore early in the fixing process for just about any boombox is to "exercise" the control that...
Elementary question, but: is the belt fitted correctly?
Many of my recent boombox restorations have required removal and disassembly of these slide switches in order to clean and/or fix the internals....
Neat though it lacks those details that made mid-80s Walkmans so enticing?
Check you haven't misconnected or created an unwanted short circuit?
Thank you. I have a quad of HSJ202 corpses - with battery gondola and vinyl case - waiting for reanimation.
Thanks but no.
I would love the red 282 but the cost of shipping out of Texas to the UK would involve a level of household expense discussion that I'm not...
Regarding the Sharp Twincam I think I have never seen another class of mechanism that has suffered so many times from damage from blunt...
This is a great conversation. I have noticed repeating problems with Panasonic (National) dual-tape mechanisms, specifically in the "clutch"...
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