General Electric model 3-6200a servicing. Rear label Uses 6D batteries and can carry two cassettes clipped onto the back. Input end Tune knob Bottom Front upside down Top controls Two short screws go into the battery compartment. All the rest are long. A power cable plugs into there and then you can separate the back from the front as everything stays in the front Fully complete power supply. Not much to see here but there it is. I'm glad to report that there is a individual motor for each cassette deck, but I'm wondering why each cassette deck had the exact same issue of not being able to play As you can see, the circuit boards are separate. However, I hope that this comes out as a chassis in one piece because if you look closely you can see the tuner string and goes across both circuit boards. So to get to the cassette deck plural without disturbing the tuner cord is an interesting design. Next bunch of pictures will be how we get to that point.
Looking at the back. Chassis they actually tell you kind of sort of which screws to unscrew to remove the chassis from the front of the radio and they do that by putting extra markings on the two screws that actually hold it to the front. Let me show you Once you take out those two screws and you simply pull off the tuning knob and of course all of the little buttons on the top by prying them straight up. Do not remove the power button, but everything that slides you do want to take off and then you simply rotate the chassis after removing the two screws and the tuning knob and then you unclip the The speaker connection from the end of the radio. You'll see it when you get there. Those two go together a plug in or you unplug them that is. Next you'll have the chassis clipped over and then you have the customary three or four screws. Depending on this case. It's three screws. It looks like per cassette deck to remove each one to get to the singular belt that operates on a pendulum to go between play fast forward and rewind. Then everything is good dripping after that and on a jackshaft is your idler tire for the take-up reel. Now let's have a close-up of the tape deck I am pointing to the very small idler tire which does wear down or wear out that may need replacing. This is the recording side which uses AC bias for the erase head and also has the same similar sized idler tire which again may need replacing to allow the take-up reel to do its job. Since I'm the first person ever inside of here, I'm having to unclip or cut these little wire ties to allow me to remove the cassette player the play side because the wires won't allow me to do so because they're in the way even after I remove the three screws to remove the one tape deck. But before I could get this motor out I had to fight with the orange wire. I had to get it to go over the motor from the underside because it was not release because it soldered onto something to the circuit board and it just wouldn't let me get to this point. Now it's simply a matter of taking the one screw off of this metal plate that goes over the flywheel and one screw on the end and then you can release that part and get the belt out. Woohoo! And you're the same thing on the other side for the other recording side and then put it all back together in reverse. Got it. And here is the old belt that I removed from the play deck. I'm guessing they're both going to be the same so I'm going to be searching for something a little bit smaller than this one which I measure to be about 98 mm. So maybe 95 or close to that? I'll put back in both sides. Old belt and then new belt. And yes, there is a difference in the diameter. The new belt is smaller although it doesn't look smaller but it is.
Both decks sound fine here. Listen Of course, the other one too I just got to put it back together and move on to the next
Finished restoration, now it is video time. General Electric 3-6200A GE play cd cassette radio powered by Znter (9:27) minutes
