Hello

I did discover something verry verry odd about my nice sony dc2 walkman,

well, I wanted to play some nice tapes yesterday so I found my nice dc2 in a drawer

somewhere and put new batteries in it and when i pressed play the knob would not

stay put , so I wanted to fast forward and the same thing did happen, also

fast rewind would not stay put

verry odd 

So after a while trying and trying suddenly the play knob would stay put and the walkman

started playing like it should with great sound and all

But what I did discover is that probably when the walkman is cold the knobs will not

stay put and when the walkmans gets warmer like I put it on the radiator all is

fine

Does anybody here experiance the same also with a walkman which was not in use

form a longer period of time?

No

just want to use it normal

Hello Walkgirl
Do you use the walkman with alkaline battery or rechargeable batteries?
Rechargeable battery can  make the problme with DC2 because  bring only 1.2 volts.
DC2 is sensitive because the power supply is scarce calculated.

Only alkaline batteries from ikea

It more like the auto stop lever by the forward take up reel, it made out of pastic when it cracks, it cause the buttons to pop up right away. Picture of the lever is below, that more likely your problem. Could be the lubrication is sticky, reason why the problem may be intermittent