This may have been a good call, sir, thank you. The L202 appears to have been damaged, there is an indentation that could be the result of a...
In case anyone is able to help, the relevant manual is available from Elektrotanya, it covers the HS-T28, -T30, -T40, and RD7 and their A-suffixed...
Hi all, Most of the walkmans I work on have perfect radios and problematic tape mechanisms but today there's a flip. A very tidy Aiwa HS-RD7...
Thank you Mister X. It's always a delight seeing someone do things like that in such a confident and successful way (on first try too!...
Now 6 weeks and counting since the tires for the restoration of an Aiwa L30 were mailed from Slovakia (not from Marian Mihok / FYA, I hasten to...
I am finishing repairs on a couple of boomboxes, both of which are missing knobs on the volume and tone sliders (who does this?!). There's almost...
Commiserations - I have just spent two days stripping back to bare plastic a big Sharp Twin Cam machine that has been in a woodworking shed for...
Thank you for that link, Mister X.
Three possible scenarios: (1) the tapes are deteriorating independently; (2) the tapes are OK and the Walkman is having a simple playback problem...
Great reading. Coincidentally I am in the closing phases of auditioning around 1800 used pre-recorded cassettes. Quite a few had lost their...
Spinal Tap in reverse. I'm impressed!
Thank you Mister X. Amazon had never occurred as a potential source but now I see all sorts of useful stuff there! Cheers.
Wow, is that Fifteen Thousand honest-to-Betsy pimpoes?
Beginning mech restoration of an otherwise-perfect PJW30 'Robot' and discovered that Deck 2 is missing the sprung pulley on the back of the...
This solves the mystery of the dimple on the screws! But buying JIS screwdrivers is a bit of a mission... for example, Vessel's website describes...
I have a small box of Overhead Projector film retained from a University course about 15 years back. Do you think it may be a good long-term...
Alex, very sorry I'm a month late picking this up. I have uploaded the only useful image I have, which is the tape path. Kind regards, Nick.
Last year I rebuilt a big old Hortex PC9090 boombox. The box itself was a disappointment, all chrome and graphics with minimal functionality but...
Before replacing the pinch roller, the "cheap" option would be to clean it first! I audition dozens of used pre-recorded cassettes every week and...
[ATTACH] I've spent several months laboring over a PJ33 that has all sorts of problems (I suspect mainly caused by old function switches driving...
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