I actually watched the 5X sony M607V video. Good video with appropriate background music I thought.
That's fantastic work David. Some of these models / boomboxes etc,. are important icons of a certain era. SK-650 is now on my radar. It has that...
Guess you found that out the hard way :biggrin: (Wait: Removing the silly yellow MEGABASS lettering would probably be an improvement though....
Use lots of cotton buds, Q-tips, with isopropyl alcohol, 90% is fine, to clean up that leaking capacitor mess. Use lots of cotton buds. Dip into...
Jorge was really into the D9'ers for a while it seems. A low cost good sounding model with a lot of potential that had to be studied and checked...
And cleaning / polishing the contacts of the battery with fine sandpaper reduces the resistance measurement that the charger states etc., some of...
Did a battery run time test with the D-555 doing intermittent listening over a 6 day period. Using the above e-bay BP-2EX battery I noted the...
I'm not sure I recall that M6 thread, having skipped a lot of Surefire discussions, I was mainly into long run time doomsday lighting etc,. Was...
Oops I missed all these updates! Take a break for a few days and this is what happens. OK you may be able to file down the excess length. But...
Cool. I bet I read your posts back in the day :biggrin: Small world. I put together a Mag85 with all FiveMega parts and an AW soft start...
Yes I am contemplating the NiMh cells. As a longtime flashlight aficionado over on CandlePowerForums I can attest that one of the best places to...
Use the search within his channel for "Aiwa CS-600" https://www.youtube.com/@Cassette2Go/search?query=Aiwa%20CS-600
And I spent some time reading a lot of comments below that video over on youtube. Good important video, priceless comments, well worth a study.
Wow! Mr.X that looks to be right service manual I think... a nice 11.4mb .pdf file at archive.org! Looking through the manual (I see various...
At least the belts come up and are available from some decent sellers like webspareparts who source the EU made ones. They also have an e-bay...
Might be as simple as disintegrated belts. At this stage they are going to have to be replaced anyway. Motor may be so quiet it can't be heard,...
Older music was better in terms of "loudness wars". Google that term if you are not familiar. A lot of the new music (though the trend is...
I often wonder what happened to the army of fresh young engineers at Sony that were creating all sorts of masterpieces. By the early 2000's they...
I didn't know either. Just a format that combines the worst of both worlds in my opinion. Tons to go wrong. Digital tape always reminds me of the...
Big_Paul is right. So much of what is available is worn out junk by now. But one can still have success buying certain non desirable odd models......
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