Excellent ideas. Thanks.
Did you resolve the "pulsing" problem? I've found reinstalling the J09 etc. reel caps can cause mechanism gears to be misaligned. But it's more of...
These players keep coming up with faults that I haven't run into before. So I've added a couple to the opening posts. 22. No AM Reception 23....
I have an Aiwa HS-J9 on which the FM receiver does not work. The J9 is the Japanese market version of the J09 and J600. The J9 differs in that it...
How about cassettes played on a good Aiwa portable and converted into MP3 using Audacity? You still get the vagaries of cassettes and can tune the...
My Aiwa HS-J10 has soft touch buttons for forward and reverse, and it has the 2ME-7 mechanism. This makes some sense because the models with...
After working on a dozen of these things I've gotten very good at not losing parts. Which I commonly did on the first few. I spent hours looking...
Actually, reading it a year later than I wrote it, I couldn't make sense of some of it. The problem is that at the time of writing, having just...
The most valuable aspect of the unrepairable unit I bought (I could tell from the photos it was a writeoff), was using it to learn how to do three...
The J600's corrosion has not spread enough to be visible in the cassette bay. So there was a good chance it could be fixed. If not, it was worth...
Silverera, I don't know if the G08 uses the 2ME-7 mechanism under the soft touch controls. If it does, I suspect one of the erase heads is jamming...
Thank you. I appreciate anything that improves the quality of the advice I offered. I removed from my list of models with the 2ME-7 mechanism, all...
Excellent idea to add the link. I have earlier posts that document cosmetic repairs such as making knobs.
I have no idea whether it will show up online again. But posting this improves the chances of it being recognized if the unit ever is offered again.
A courier in Canada lost or stole this Aiwa HS-J600 last fall. I am suspicious it was not just a mistake because the company, Dragonfly (which is...
9. Sw1 & 2 lube A simple matter of spraying contact cleaner/lubricant into them and thoroughly exercising them. Shielding the switches before...
8. Main board soldering I have found broken or "cold" solder joints in all sorts of places on the main boards in these players. A bad capacitor...
7. Cassette detect levers corrosion This requires removing the main board from the chassis, and disengaging springs attached to the levers. This...
6. Ribbon cable connections Many of these players have broken or cracked flat ribbon cable terminals. Every time the Play button is pressed, the...
5. Ribbon cable tears These players have flat ribbon cables for the head and another for the equalizer. They are a total nuisance when doing...
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