My name is James, I do a lot of DIY work on electronics and cars. I am sucker into retro stuff, old cars and old electronics. Born in 1980 and considered myself more of Gen-X, I am sucker to 80's music. I am not an audiophile, my threshold is "just works". I found this Forum to find tips on repairing my device to aid me with a boss fight with a pesky Sony TC-D5m requiring multiple caps and transistors replacement. I abandoned Cassette back in 1999 in favor of CD and MP3, but returned in 2024 and it keeps my impulsive skipping music syndrome in check. I owned or repaired at least nearly half a dozen Sony Walkman models such as WM-DD, WM-D3, WM-F77, WM-F202, Wm-F100, WM-F100, WM-FSX44, WM-GX202 and WM-F10II. Also owned and repaired Aiwa HS-P7 and Toshiba KT-AS1/RS1. I lost so many poly washers, so I hoarded enough blister pack plastic to make my own poly washers. Spring on the other hand...knock on wood, never lose one yet. Since I can't take my Prime Music streaming audio on certain places, recorded a few compilations into minidisc and cassette. My daily driver car also comes with a OEM 5 disc cassette player, but the tape speed is a little too fast (i have no time to remove it and take it apart to calibrate it) and ended up using tape adapter and hook up my cassette walkman lol. Also owned minidisc MZ-NH600D since new, and bought 2 more minidisc model NH707 and R55. Also owned an old entry level BSR turntable mated with a Taiwanese radio unit (cheap K-Mart type) found at the side of the road for free. Also owned Heathkit AA-32 got it for free from a garage sale nearly all original (i bought new caps for it) My electrical repair still novice, just limited to swapping caps and resistors and de-soldering wires since I have little patience going through schematics and finding broken trace. Watching Louis Rossman repair videos improves my audacity though.
Welcome to the forum, it sounds like you have a headstart on most new members. Louis Rossman is great, especially the non-repair or big brother topics. Check out My Mate Vince, he's done some portables, he love's looking for continuity on the circuit boards and it seems to work good for him. This member is up in your part of the world, did you check out his collection? I used to get stuff up there from the audio sales websites but haven't in a long time. https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/690/
