Well, that’s it all back together and seems to be working well! Strangely, it was a lot more fiddly than the old boombox I did first time round....
I received a box of used cassettes this morning - already posted about the “That’s” find. There are a couple of BASF Chrome Extra IIs and and some...
I too bought that copy of What HiFi! I don’t know what happened to that particular cassette, but I’ve just been gifted a box of ‘old tapes’ and...
This getting back into cassettes thing is growing… So having sorted the ‘78 Hitachi and been playing with the Sanyo Walkman sized dictaphone/...
Thanks AE, more top advice! I came across an old phone lead with a 2.5mm Jack last night and gave it a go. Wow! With the tape playing, if you...
As per the Tech Chat forum, I now have a working line-in (and probably line-out…)!! Not using the absolute best of quality leads etc. but they’ve...
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...
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