Hi all,
I just received a WM-10 -my first- today and after a little cleaning and adjusting, everything seems to work except the inversion wheel seems to be touching the base plate making some noise.

I found the inversion wheel is kind of sitting wobbly in its place and I can tilt it about one millimeter to either side.

If you look at the photo you can see that the top of the wheel is not flush with the other ones. Is it supposed to be like that or is there something loose or broken inside?

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Also, rewind and play work fine, but FF only engages for a few seconds, then slows down and stops.

Any ideas?

Cheers

I have bought two WM-F10's which have the same drive/transport system and both have had that problem to a varying degree.

Although I'm not sure how your going to solve the issue of the wheel rubbing on the metal body. And I do know the Rewind without a cassette will stop after a few seconds, but the FF should work constantly regardless....interesting, maybe it is the contact leaf?

Ah...ok. After putting in a cassette the RW seems to be working just fine. So the unit is fully functional with great sound, but the rubbing has to go.

Problem is I'm not sure how to remove the inversion wheel...I'm afraid of taking the whole thing apart.

Well I'm not going to say taking out that part is going to be easy, especially if you have never done it before. In fact to get that part out you have to disassemble a considerable portion of the player, as the wheel construction is part of the button transport. As I said I had the same issue and I thought I would inspect and I found in two different machines that it is not possible to fix, it is probably going to be waist of time, as the wheel is attached to and with plastic gears only with a small metal axle. Again you could use the WM-10 troubleshooting at the top of this forum to disassemble it and see if there is something else that fixable, but again I doubt it.

If the clearance allows you could try to add a small spacer on both sides of wheel, add the spacers on the edge of the main-board. The spacers will be working between the body and the main board, in the area of the wheel to possibly stop the rubbing by just tweaking the body further away from the wheel. I have done this before in the WM-F10, it can work if there is enough room and the body will still properly go back on. Although if this works you would be most likely tweaking the assembly, which will most likely require a head adjustment.