Japan-only model from Panasonic, RS-4250 is truly beautiful: As received, Black Beauty had one broken antenna "fixed" by SuperGlue, and with cassette mech frozen. Very easy do disassemble: Foam pads sticking from the back into the woofer magnets give that extra bit of Sound Quality: Cassette mechanism is simple and solid: Belt got rock-hard and fused with a flywheel: Motor was disassembled, re-lubed, re-capped: SBR 6.9 and FBS 10.7 fit nicely: This once, I decided to go through complete disassembly of its cassette mechanism. Unless absolutely necessary, I will never do this again! Polishing, then fixing broken post: drivers: getting rid of dust bunnies and repainting the grills:
Amazing restoration. Thanks for sharing these pictures. Did you paint the speaker grills?? (as I can guess from last picture)
Thank you! And yes, High-Heat and Engine Enamels with Ceramic are the toughest paints on this side of epoxy: siphoned from the can and sprayed with Iwata airbrush. Always a good idea to spray just a Lacquer Thinner first, to "soften" an old paint so that new layer will get a better "bite" onto surface
Great find. In my eyes, the most beautiful 70's classic. I just thought, is it my own thread revived?! See this: http://www.stereo2go.com/topic/index.php?content_oid=309649691682692254&board_oid=193392314111653326 It was posted in year 2013. The title of the posts are incredibly similar.
