Welp... Gonna try fix this baby without a service manual.

99% it's the belt. Rewind and play does run without cassette and ff works directly.

Wish me luck.

Wohooww.....

nice Walkman Kin!

wish you all he luck in the world, be sure you have a good whiskey beside you, and ofcourse some good music.....

No whiskey for me but a bit of smoothlounge music... This walkman is probably one of the hardest to disassemble. I need to figure out how to remove the board in order to replace the belt.

The board is loose but the internal speaker is blocking clearance to flip and I can't see where it's attached to. Tried the membrane, but it looks pretty much glued to it. I could peek it's dried out, possibly slipping in play and rewind mode.

Put it back together for now. Everything seems to be functional, I can hear a fraction of sound coming out of the speaker while it's trying to turn the tape a few millimeters.

Hope someone has a service manual.

I have a tcm-7 also!< it took my brother about 2 days to put a new belts on!!, butnow it works perfect!!

Yes I have seen your video before The walkman hobby started after seeying your video of the Hitachi CP-1EX walkman.

I'm curious how your brother approached the problem. It seems that something keeps the board secure around the center near the speaker.

From what I remember he pulled the poudspeaker out!