Won a Sanyo M9990 a couple of weeks ago had it delivered to work, a large box arrived and I thought must be well packed, but alas no when I picked the box up the contents was free to slide around. I opened the box fearing the worst the M9990 just had a wrapping of bubble wrap and that was it free to slide around in a flimsy box nearly twice it's size.
Anyway removed the bubble wrap no obvious damage but the 9990 was filthy and smelled strongly of cigarettes and had a nice yellow coating.Then I noticed the tuning knob was very loose and did not move the pointer and it rattled.

















When I got it home from I opened it up and found this damage, the section of the plastic chassis with the tuning knob shaft a chord pulley and the right mic was completely broken off, on the good side it was a fairly clean break and the tuning chord had stopped it coming away completly and causing more damage.

Before repair.



After.



I used Loctite 403 plus activator a very srong but slightly fexible "Superglue"I glued the section back added some beads of glue on both sides of the crack and some additional plastic strips across the top and bottom, no very elegant but has made strong repair.Once the glue had gone off I re-strung the tuner.

I decided to sort the other problems at this point which were no stereo on FM easy 4 pots to choose from, choose the nearest the tuning cap. which was the one sorted.
The cassette deck hadn't been used in a long time the heads and pinch roller were very dirty, belts seemed ok but it struggled to play and fast foward also rewind was sluggish.Cleaned the belts and belt path better but still playing and ff still slow, had a look at the clutch on the take up it uses a felt disc which was hard and shiny so replaced this now work fine, should of taken some pictures.
Now pull apart again finish cleaning and put back together.I also darkened the speaker cones as they were very faded and didn't contast well with grills.











Ok here it all nice and clean and fully working, it has turned out very nice as there is no external damge or wear just a few very minor nicks here and there.





















So a bad start but ended nicely, and this was described as A1 condition and full workig order!

WOW,you did a great resto job! Very nice,and impressive. The M9990 is a great unit......

Thanks,it looks really nice now, spent 3 days on it, and what a nice sounding box very good bass for it's size and sweet highs.

WOW Great Restoration Work! Will you do mine next? oh wait ... nuts I dont have one of these

nice job dave.............dont you just hate that......people who have no idea about packaging and fragile items.............losers

Super fine cleaning job there! I only wish I could pull off a job like that. I have found out it takes plenty of time and patience to complete such a task.

wow, what a great box is this Sanyo! And well done with repairing and cleaning, offcourse.

Beautiful repair and resto!

How did you darken the speaker cones?

Nice work dude

Don't you just love those ebay sellers, A1 and perfect working, unreal

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Originally posted by Reli:
How did you darken the speaker cones?

From the [ Location: Bay Area ] thought you would know how to do this = Tanning oil

I used a Warm Grey 5(W5)Copic Wide permanent Marker 21mm chisel tip, these come in many shades of grey these are very quick drying so don't wet the cones too much, but you can't use them near foam it will dissolve.

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Originally posted by cassettekid:

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Originally posted by Reli:
How did you darken the speaker cones?

From the [ Location: Bay Area ] thought you would know how to do this = Tanning oil

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Originally posted by mrp32Dave:
I used a Warm Grey 5(W5)Copic Wide permanent Marker 21mm chisel tip, these come in many shades of grey these are very quick drying so don't wet the cones too much, but you can't use them near foam it will dissolve.

So a magic marker??

Why magic? The guy said what kind of marker it was.

WOW, great looking box! nice job.

I agree. Great sounding little thumper.

Excellent job! Boy, you can really tell the difference between the before & after photos...