Yeah good luck getting anyone else to ever reply to that survey :biggrin:
A lot of good questions Miriam. First of all I would say CD walkman / Discman were more of a craze from 1985 up to 2000. By time we got to 2000...
Just white noise in the right channel on cassette playback. But left channel has sound ok? Yeah that could be lot of things, oxidized contact in...
Yeah keep that old junk 505ST for parts. It has a ton of good parts. I hope you oil the old motor before putting it in the recipient box :nodding:
I've watched quite a lot of your videos on certain models that were of interest. Good reference and often useful to see a certain model boombox up...
Headphone coupling caps at the very least. How many are there on the board? Is it one of those with 30+ caps? Can you put up some pictures....
Both sizes just to be safe :nodding: (PS: I would like to see your skills applied to other superior high end walkman which are more worthy...
Probably 2.5mm to 3mm and they were originally JIS Philips screws. Easy to strip. About 10mm length. I would send for a metric pack assortment on...
There are very small protruding black plastic "pins" that snap off easily. Very easily. Then the clear plastic cover will not hold in place...
I had to message Wickedkraft and ask for a battery to be made and listed on e-bay. Then I could buy it. Wickedkraft does not seem to keep a stock...
The article talks about Covid and social distancing so that dates it right there. The picture of the Scott Campbell guy in the article is not of...
When I was recapping a Sony D-211 Discman several years ago I ordered a large selection of SMD capacitors, they were not solid state, just regular...
Or buy ready made from one of the vendors on e-bay. Saves having to buy the correct high quality 3D printer. Unless one already has one of course...
Usually new small SMD capacitors can be used as substitute. Removed from their plastic base and legs folded out etc,. E-bay is also a source for...
Discman land could sure benefit from similar, but different, tweaks to their atrocious Mega Bass boost switch as well... Worthy top 1990 model...
How to change the cassette deck belts on the Panasonic RX-DT707 "Cobra Top" from early 1990's? I ordered the replacement belts from Thakker e-bay...
When removing the platters ones has to use two wedges simultaneously, one on each side, to squeeze up slowly and carefully pop the platter off....
I neglected to mention that none of the new boxes have Dolby anymore. So that is one more disadvantage to new ones...
I think this is a good question. Seriously. It should be a sticky pinned to the forum top and filled with various makes and model options that are...
Going to be interesting to see the results. Good stuff! :thumbsup:
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