Welcome!!! :wavey: watch for the crumbling gear in D8443 (renamed D8444), I posted my troubles at boomboxery and here
Do you have a photo of this flex connector? Absolutely ALL Discmans use them for their laser mechanisms, and you can buy a box of broken Discmans...
yes, you are absolutely right, box with vents instead of bass port is totally different beast, practically an open baffle design. Sealing the box...
I am not surprised here: I used to plug the ports of my vented speakers (when I had such horrors) to tame the bass, not to pump it up! It comes...
As they say in hi-end crowd: its the first Watt that counts! ;) CRS-152 is in one piece again, without multipin/flex connectors it was a full-tine...
Get yourself Panasonic RX-6400 (RX-A2) and your collection shall end there! I missed my chance a year ago at $250 off eBay, simply because I were...
Words of wisdom, my friend!! But in my case it will... for the mundane reason that I ran out of space!!! Once my present resto line-up of two...
no such thing in here!!! :) here is its amp: four transistors on a huge heat-sink, two coupling and two output transformers: [ATTACH] part of...
@Derek marshall Many Thanks for the info!!! I am on a mission to make the most comprehensive table of Discman's parts composition (downloadable...
That is what I see also: TOTL Discman for collectors! Denons DPC-100 and 150 are even harder to find, but because of their rubberized matt finish...
So, today I opened Superscope CRS-152 which I bought because of reading too much off this awesome thread... and I am mightily impressed!!! No...
Great info for the rest of us, thanks for doing this! Since it has burned/snapped voice coil, not just bad solder, it was doomed anyway :) Extra...
D8814 is the most impressive animal in my minicollection of Big Boys: [IMG] [IMG] Unlike all other beasts, the Elephant was singing from Day One,...
It is DONE!!! :) Posted my efforts at Boomboxery here, their site allows for a simple Copy-Paste from its original location: ELEPHANT SURGERY:...
my, my, my!!!! I wanna, I Wanna, I WANNA this Aiwa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it looks soo "me", it hurts!, and with side-firing speakers it fulfills...
if just for looks, use Discman Car kit antivibration plate as in the second photo here: it looks the same as dead BP-100, same fit, and once you...
bear with me,... should upload my resto photos of ON switch tomorrow! I did not take photos of some crucial steps while stripping down its control...
not multipins, sorry! there are no pins, just bare wires held by leaf-springs. the worst offenders on mine are here: [ATTACH] insert a tiny flat...
Yes, as promised at Boomboxery I will post my photos on Elephant surgery: I made so many that its hard to choose the relevant ones... Those...
Great! And fixing On button is pretty easy, with a piece of plasticard and styrene (Tamiya, etc) glue :thumbsup:
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