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davisneil - 2012-11-26 00:54

Wow what can I say...a forum dedicated to Walkmans...love it

When I was a teenager, I loved all kinds of Walkmans. Between 1990 and about 1999 (switched to minidisc) I repaired my own cassette players bought from car boots and the like. I had a Panasonic rq sx3,65,75, Sony ex1,5 and 7, and all sorts of other ones resurrected and taking pride of place in my school blazer pocket!

If I remember,the panasonics and aiwas are a pig to fix, desoldering solenoids and motors ain't fun. But rewarding when you get underneath and you find a simple circlip missing. Dig about for one off a dead Walkman and boom...working awesome Walkman

Anyways, loving the forums and the memories, as good as iPhones are, the technology is so BORING. Now im grown up with kids i miss the magic of coming home from a car boot with all that excitment and spending saturday afternoon fixing a feather touch walkman!

I've just bought a Sony ex 615 non working, gonna try and fix it just for old times sake

docp - 2012-11-26 01:00

Welcome to S2G

Nice to hear you like fixing things ...the true joy of owning some of these jewels is in being able to resurrect the ailing ones! So good luck with that....and do share your experiences/views
best wishes
P

davisneil - 2012-11-26 01:08

i can bet any money this walkman , when it arrives, will need a new belt. I understand i should chat to you about that....

retrodos - 2012-11-26 02:50

Originally Posted by davisneil:

If I remember,the panasonics and aiwas are a pig to fix, desoldering solenoids and motors ain't fun. But rewarding when you get underneath and you find a simple circlip missing. Dig about for one off a dead Walkman and boom...working awesome Walkman

Hello and welcome to the forum.

When fixing Panasonic's and Aiwa's walkman. Don't use a regular cheap unregulated solder iron, as they lift and damage traces. Use a temperature regulated solder station, it well worth the investment. Get one of these Hakko FX-888 solder station, best bang for your buck. Also get good quailty no-clean anti-static desolder wick, not the cheap chinese crap that flooded on eBay, go with brand name. I use NTE, quicker then using even my desolder station. Then you won't have to worry about damage anymore.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hakko-FX888-23BY-Soldering-Station-High-performance-soldering-tool-/360515315271?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53f0632647

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NTE-SW03-10-3-Green-No-clean-Solder-Wick-10-ft-SW03-10-/160912596712?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2577235ee8

You may know how to solder already, so don't take it the wrong way. Put links for those that don't. Just seen way to many Aiwa walkmans that had failed attempted hack jobs done to them, then they throw them back up on eBay. So hope this will lower that number. This guy does it the correct way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Sb21qbpEQ&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYz5nIHH0iY&feature=fvwrel

retro - 2012-11-26 05:38

Hello davisneil and welcome to the forum.

nak.d - 2012-11-26 06:36

Welcome along

walkman.archive - 2012-11-26 13:31

Hello davisneil; welcome here.

davisneil - 2012-11-26 13:47

hello everyone and thanks for the warm welcome.

Soldering absurdly small things seems to be an art of mine. I did a year with Dolby soldering and repairing surface mount components and the tiny sound readers that are installed on a movie projector. Needs good eyes and a rock steady hand lol

Came to the realisation that although i can listen to FLAC files, even they sound so clinical when compared with analog eg Vinyl or Tape.

I believe this is because analogue is more natural to how music is made, the nuances of a guitar string translate directly to magnetic modulations, as opposed to sound > 100010101010101001 > back to sound. Some of the soul is gonna be lost.

So, I want back in to the analogue revival!

I'd like to try and buy a WM EX1HG or EX20 ideally, but seems they are so rare!