Doing now a AIWA restoration, this one had bad capacitors that cause damage traces thur the plate holes and a couple pads and also some of the silk screen print on the PCB board peel off, so started repairing the traces on the PCB and ran fine gauge stranded wire thru the plate holes to jump the traces and removed a few components and reinstalled for cleaning the acid.

As far as removing the capacitors twisted them off, carefully leaving the legs in place, then removed the base and desolder the legs to avoid pulling the traces.

Order the capacitors thur Digikey using Panasonic for the 4v caps and for the non existent 2v capacitors, going to use tantalum capacitors. Just have to wait for them to come.

Removed some of the capacitors already, have 8 more to remove.

Nice one!

Here was my effort at repairing a PL30.

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The PL30 was the 2nd only to the PX30 back in 1989. Nice sound from it. Only needed one tantalum (100uF 2V) for my repair. The 330uF 2V are best kept as electrolytics for better audio reproduction.

Found a electrolytics 493-3817-1-ND 330uf 2.5v for replacement of the 2v 330uf thur digikey that I am going use. The tantalum is going to be the (100uF 2V). It nice to see these get restored then throw in the bin. Just can't wait to see how it sounds, it uses the permalloy HX head I notice no amorphous head.

You'll love the sound from it.

Put in a good quality recorded tape and slip on a pair of bass receptive headphones. Hit PLAY and just let the bass from the Parametric DSL wow you.

After new capacitors installed

After restoration, this walkman sounds great, has good bass

Interesting...

Your PL30 does not appear to have the original battery holder for it. Actually the original battery holder for the PL30 is a bit cheap in its design, so the more later one you have is actually better.

Also it is a greyish colour like many of the PL303 I see on eBay for sale (when they come up on sale). My example is a matt black colour.

How does the sound stack up on the PL30 for you against other AIWAs of this type such as the JX505?

I have the original battery holder somewhere, just borrow it off another AIWA for the time being, I tend to like the JX505 alittle better, as it sounds more sharper with BBE on, but listen to a couple more tapes later on.