After some confusion with belt size for my Aiwa hs-px 101 the right one turned up today,and for the first time in over 10 years it is playing music .  All functions seem to work . Dolby b/c and metal tape . The dsl works ,after a thorough clean.  The logic control has a stop button with a mind of its own sometimes,but i am led to belive this is common ?

   Only slight problem is the channels can drop out very slightly occasionally,more like a wave . I am hopping this is just a head alignment issue . But now i know it works i am going to change all the caps anyway...

    Now off to lisnern to some music

Thats great news mate....this walkman is one of my faves...especially mine, as i have modded my case and she looks swell....there is just something about this walkman thats different from others...congrats on getting her working again....well worth the effort

I have forgotten how these things chew through batteries ???  Thank god for maplins big boxes lol ...

I have sort of sussed the problem,well sourced it anyway . I have to manually align nearly every tape . If a track or side goes dull  just a tweek on the head alignment screw sorts  it . The head is secured so it must be something else ?? any ideas ??

On the HS-PX101, the Stop button is also the Direction button when in stop mode.

If you press Stop when not playing, it tells the walkman to play in the other direction when play is next pressed, making a few clicks & clonks while achieving this.

Not completely convinced of the usefulness of that feature TBH