Hi. I bought a retro Sony Walkman  wm-30 but all of my cassette tapes are too big to insert into it. Is  there a special smaller size cassette tape for Sony Walkman  wm-30 ?

You've got to expand it to fit the tape in.

http://www.sonyvintage.com/wp-...tage.com-wm-30-9.jpg

The post of the year!  

Genius, hahaha.

Who is this?

Vhs tapes are Video tapes !

my walkman wm-30 is for music cassette tapes only about 4 inches by 3 inches.

I'm posting this from Ireland, i assume the tapes are similar in the U.S. etc

Well, I for one am not taking the bait

Yes you need to expand the door by pulling on the bottom of the door.

At first no way a standard cassette is going to fit inside the walkman

Now a standard cassette will fit inside the walkman, once the door is expanded by grasping the bottom of the  two side of the door intill it pull out.

Standard cassette is now successfully inserted into the walkman

Door will even close with a standard cassette inside it.

H i Retrodos.

Thank you so much for the solution, it worked a treat !

Pity some of the replies being of the 'closed minds' variety, they are in the wrong

forum. 

Green Lantern, with respect, are you seriously trying to tell us you weren't aware that the unit expands to accept cassettes?  Where did you get the walkman from exactly, surely you wouldn't have bought it without this point being clear?

Apologies if our, well, my comments offended you, genuinely not the intention.  But I'm genuinely intrigued.

Actually on this one can see how someone that never own one of these can get confused. Most walkman you just open the door and stick a tape inside it. This series was one of the only few that you have to expand and is not that clear when first looking at it, as you would never think to pull on the door at first sight. Of course most everyone here owns one of these, so is common sense to us, while others just getting one of these just don't know any better, unless you have the manuel, or start pulling on it.

Now All we need to do is modify a tape to fit in without any expansion...

Interesting though actually...

Guess that might be possible if we were to put in a pair of TEAC 'open reels' reels by themselves ...no shell...like a reel to reel player?

I remember not knowing this myself until it was explained to me on s2g a few years back.

I'd never used one of these Sonys & it's not obvious from catalog pics. I suspect Sony weren't too keen to publicise that their "cassette-sized" walkman only played if it was rather bigger than a cassette...