These are the first radios I have aquired since joining Stereo 2 go!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390674657764?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649#ht_4584wt_1358

Aiwa stereo 600 and a Sharp GF-4343. I bought the 4343 simply because it's the little brother of my 5454! I will post pictures when they arrive!

Nice one! My aka 600 arrived yesterday. Can confirm that it is an aiwa from the inside. It has silver speaker grills. 

Sadly someone else had been in it before The cassette wasn't working because the gear that pushes the head and roller up has lost a couple of teeth. Managed to get it going again by giving the pieces an offset upwards, so the missing teeth are overruled. But pause isn't working anymore because of this solution. I dont really care, it isn't going to be favorite anyway. It is a cool modern looking box tho 

good deal on the Aiwa Seb! got a CS 600 myself with a non running tape deck, if you're going to repair it let me know how you get on matey!

Cheers Michiel, it’s a shame about the pause function (these armatures that strip cogs I don’t know!) but great you got it going. I like the fact you can move the cog to use its good teeth! Mine was sold with a non functioning tape deck, hoping it's just a belt but could be in for a bit of fun!! This will be my first Aiwa boom box; I can’t wait to get it. If the excellent Aiwa cassette decks I’ve owned are anything to go by, I think I’ll love it.

Well done for getting that Aiwa Seb! Nice looking example that one. The 4343...well that's erm...err...definitely a radio...congrats   lol...I've got a 4646...it's crap but its my teenage box so its treasured anyway

Thanks Si, pretty excited about the Aiwa! I know the 4343 is going to be crap, if tape transport is anything like the one in the GF-1740 mono I've got it will be worse than crap. I bought it for two reasons really, 1, it was £7 (you will probably tell me I paid too much!!) and 2, it sort of completes the range to some extent (1740, 4343 and 5454) This saites my O.C.D.!!  Although the 5454 is much better put together than either of these and thats not particularly special! Still teenage machine you see!!

Thanks smeats, will let you know how I get on. Might try posting some pics of the repair process. Anyway you can allways drop me a P.M. of your fault and i'll try and help.

thanks Seb, I'll see how you get on with it, mine's on long term loan to a friend at the moment!

Replacing belts on these is easy, so that's a nice job. But avoid to open up the rest of the deck. Its a design ala sony. Lots of levers, small gears and springs. And they will come lose if you open it up and are a real pain to put back the right way! Post here if you replaced the belt and the head doesn't go up. The offset can be done without opening the piece up 

Thanks mate, may well take you up on that if I run into problems, sounds like the mech is tricky!

congrats i was watching the auction and no one else bid....good for you...these do have a nice warm sound so you should like her

Thanks radio raheem; I just can't wait to get her!!

Here is what i bought seb...im building another pc...im always doing this haha....once again well done

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3009...id=p3984.m1497.l2649

Thats very, very good for an I7, well done to you!

Its a toy haha my main pc has 12 cores 32 gb ram 2 gtx 780....i just want something to do instead of sleeping all day lol....i already have the mb in the link but one pci express lane has gone down...i guess we all have ocd or something like that lol

Yeah O.C.D. I'm getting worse as I get older!