I picked this up for $5 on ebay and was actually hoping the walkman section would work, alas it's being very stubborn and refuses to work.



The boombox part of the unit is untested so far, but the FM radio works fine on the walkman. The tape player howere doesn't seem to be powering up, and the slide button on top that puts the mech into either FFWD or RWD is jammed and won't move to either side.

The butons aren't logic controlled but are very soft touch. I took her apart and after rebelting her I found that manually turning the drive wheels got the action moving fine. But I think the jammed slider is preventing it from powering up.

I've lubricated and cleaned where ever I could and have stripped it back to the point where the only way to get any further is to separate the pcb from it's other half that require desoldering a few too many things for my liking.

Has anyone had experience with this unit at all? Or has heard of this kind of mechanism being jammed. Before when I was jiggling the switch around trying to get it to budge one of the reels spun up for half a second, so I'm really hoping it's not going to require a lot more work to get her fully going.

If anyones got some ideas but wants some photos of the insides I can take some more images, no problem.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post.


Rock On.

What a nice walkmanboombox!

Unfortunately, you may have to disassemble the mechanism to solve it. Short of a manual, best thing to do is to take pix of each disassembly layer. Then you'll have an impromptu set of "assembly instructions" to get it back together.

I have never seen that QT model before ! Nice score Gluecifer. Hope you can sort it out

Thanks for the help! I'll dissect her over the weekend. I'm on a roll with fixing things at the moment so I'm hoping my luck will last.

AZA: it needs a mini antenna, battery cover (for the boombox section) and a bit of work but it'd be nice to fix it all up. All the text is in japanese on it, it had very scrappy and lifting stickers over the functions in english but the japanese underneath has been preserved nicely. They were official stickers, but it makes me think it wasn't a particularly widely distributed model from Sharp if they didn't bother with a genuine english version.

I had visions of walking to work with the walkman and then plugging it into the boombox section there for use during the day, but maybe I should just migrate a larger ghettoblaster down there instead.



Rock On.