Two ways forward if you're not an expert at such electronics. One is to get the circuit diagrams and start looking for problems. The other is to...
What are the pros and cons of the cylindrical motors vs the flat ones? I know the flat ones can run in reverse. Can the cylindrical ones do this?
I am a Canadian, who, like most Canadians, lives near the US border. I purchase Aiwa vintage portable cassette players from Americans on eBay, and...
Congratulations on the repair. I'm not well informed about which capacitors to recommend. Hopefully others here who knows this stuff will post....
Similarly, I thought fixing my Aiwa HS-J09, bought new by me in 1986, and using it to digitize my cassettes, made more sense than buying any new...
While there is an IC involved in the logic control of the J9/09/600/360 etc. the controls themselves are manual. The J10 has a mix of manual and...
I bought such a gizmoa few years ago because I wanted to use it to digitize my cassettes. It performed so badly I thought it was defective and...
You're welcome. Do you have links for sourcing the Chinese parts? Especially the flat ribbon cables. My searches have been unsuccessful. I'm...
Excellent ideas. Thanks.
Did you resolve the "pulsing" problem? I've found reinstalling the J09 etc. reel caps can cause mechanism gears to be misaligned. But it's more of...
These players keep coming up with faults that I haven't run into before. So I've added a couple to the opening posts. 22. No AM Reception 23....
I have an Aiwa HS-J9 on which the FM receiver does not work. The J9 is the Japanese market version of the J09 and J600. The J9 differs in that it...
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...
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