How about cassettes played on a good Aiwa portable and converted into MP3 using Audacity? You still get the vagaries of cassettes and can tune the...
My Aiwa HS-J10 has soft touch buttons for forward and reverse, and it has the 2ME-7 mechanism. This makes some sense because the models with...
After working on a dozen of these things I've gotten very good at not losing parts. Which I commonly did on the first few. I spent hours looking...
Actually, reading it a year later than I wrote it, I couldn't make sense of some of it. The problem is that at the time of writing, having just...
The most valuable aspect of the unrepairable unit I bought (I could tell from the photos it was a writeoff), was using it to learn how to do three...
The J600's corrosion has not spread enough to be visible in the cassette bay. So there was a good chance it could be fixed. If not, it was worth...
Silverera, I don't know if the G08 uses the 2ME-7 mechanism under the soft touch controls. If it does, I suspect one of the erase heads is jamming...
Thank you. I appreciate anything that improves the quality of the advice I offered. I removed from my list of models with the 2ME-7 mechanism, all...
Excellent idea to add the link. I have earlier posts that document cosmetic repairs such as making knobs.
I have no idea whether it will show up online again. But posting this improves the chances of it being recognized if the unit ever is offered again.
A courier in Canada lost or stole this Aiwa HS-J600 last fall. I am suspicious it was not just a mistake because the company, Dragonfly (which is...
9. Sw1 & 2 lube A simple matter of spraying contact cleaner/lubricant into them and thoroughly exercising them. Shielding the switches before...
8. Main board soldering I have found broken or "cold" solder joints in all sorts of places on the main boards in these players. A bad capacitor...
7. Cassette detect levers corrosion This requires removing the main board from the chassis, and disengaging springs attached to the levers. This...
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