Good, that you could fix it. I don‘t like those snap-in connections either. The hands are so strong and the plastic is weak :-))) I have recently learned, that guitar picks are pretty helpful when opening them. Once you have opened the enclosure, you can slip them in and move them towards the next clip. It is good to have at least two picks. fender heavies are better than extra light picks. And the „cough drops“ that I used to play are not good, either.
Oooh, a 1987 - 89 That's! Made by Taiyo Yuden. According to the Cassette Comeback channel they were relatively expensive back in the day and only available at Hi-Fi shops or Our Price stores. Shame it got damaged
Thankfully I have like 3 Thats tapes, and there is only damage on 20-25cm of the tape, not too bad :o) They are really nice tapes though, and expensive if you try getting them again... Tapes and personal stereos are starting to get scalped now unfortunately.
Taiyo Yuden also made excellent DVD+-R Blanks. Those were always my blanks of choice for Data backups and they never let me down. It sucked when they became harder and harder to get in my local electronics markets :/
That Walkman design is really nice. Totally looks like from the early 90s. Got myself a pair of Sony MDR-XB550 headphones recently with just that same kind of vibrant red. So much nicer than the ever dominant boring white that most electronics nowdays seem to have as the only choice of colour. Red and Black together always looks a lot more interesting.
YEY she's workin again! still though, a spring, next to the belt.. a sure fire way to make you have to replace the belts ever 50 milliseconds! sounds good though :)
Nice easy repair, much easier to open these up using a small kitchen knife with a thin blade, saves from marking the casing to much- got one to look at tonight, needs anew belt, and the radio won't pick up any stations! No idea what that may be though 😊
Un gran trabajo... ¿Tiene algún vídeo en el que repare un display...? Tengo un sintonizador Sony al que se la ido el display y tengo que buscar las emisoras al oído. ¿Solución para eso...? Muchas gracias y un saludo desde Madrid
I’m with you in hating plastic clips. Any time I take something apart that’s held together with clips, no matter how gentle and careful I am I always break at least one of them. Even worse is things that are glued or ultrasonically welded shut, because things get broken and there is no putting it back together cleanly.
Well done on the repair. I've had a few projects that have been stubborn to work. I got a similar model to one in video but belts I've replaced are too small and now flutters quite bad now. Will fix it one day :)
What you say about the Dolby sound actually makes sense. It does alter the sound a lot with the masking and change of the whole dynamics. Ever re-recorded some music from a CD to a cassette? I mean music you used to listen from a cassette back then whenit was recorded with Dolby noise reduction but on your own new cassette recording it was not used? It just sounds sooo different. Even when you listen to the music from the CD directly and even more so under headphones where you suddenly miss that tingle from the analog noise reduction masking coming from the Dolby circuits. Sounds weird but that's just how it feels.
Love the colour of this red unit. You're my inspiration, wish I have your electronics knowledge, keep up the good work! Just replaced belts on my WM-F2015 which is of similar design, here is my thought. This dual belts mechanism will cause this problem if one of the belt fail. However some other Walkmans (say WM-FX113) use a much simpler single belt design, in the event of belt failure, both the capstan and take up pulley stop, thus eliminating such problem. Perhaps the dual belt design is better in maintaining speed stability ? BTW, I used a set of automotive trim panel prying tools to open these type of less expensive snap together Walkmans, works pretty well.
It will cause chewed tapes if the take up belt went out. I whole lot prefer WM-FX113 over WM-F2015 because at least that got one belt. If that goes out it stops both capstan and take up belts.
I had quite a lot of problems with tapes being eaten as a kid, until I discovered that the cheap 3-for-a-pound crappy ones had terrible mechanisms with far too much slack everywhere and the takeup reel would stick causing the tape to be eaten up. Sometimes the tape would actually fall off the spool inside and end up wrapping itself inside the cassette housing they were so bad. Then I bought my first decent (Sony in my case) tape and never looked back :)
Yes, there's lots of listings on ebay, this is just one of them: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255129257518?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D247415%26meid%3D0f473a5b90454192aca04692715e364a%26pid%3D101195%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D164190144818%26itm%3D255129257518%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplAMLv11WebTrimmedV3MskuWithLambda85KnnRecallV1V4V6ItemNrtInQueryAndCassiniVisualRankerAndBertRecallAndDynamicRecsysV2b%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p2047675.c101195.m1851&amdata=cksum%3A2551292575180f473a5b90454192aca04692715e364a%7Cenc%3AAQAHAAABYNXyzFqVVJ78aQVsgu30hWP%252FpFuTN4L6%252FYpgt0A2DyQQ%252F6a4RgtHNDv4ihWIkox%252F3OgJ7Tbe6siEL%252FcIaE%252Bmaxb0obf9kiZr1sHxNsR7VMbcmUThN5l4scxVV%252BwVCAiqgB0ztj%252B5xOMwrNdk1BJLXHo1bp%252BuPHr9H%252BRuKy05FkSKKaxw7VE3lQ7xkz7Z0NRO9YcWSBBYhNSzwdLBV3A6rL2zDMov1PeRHi1Hm7ro5IBE3f2XzMU7nTKmHHHPHcRpGjrTnLJSsAv4RqLj1YiGyV6RMscYAMGsFaES6I24Q%252FS4PLXuD8q0c3bD%252FljecpmfI3lktDsBcERbgcBCrJ16nSa4zT5%252BYEoEfhbPOmt3OUBNJ439tRuCuVqtLSQCt%252FQAQjAEz3W218f5FdYOrq0XEIFpCvJ20GOIh55%252F7HvogZ1g3Xd8hXVjCWEuETm9hLoyRnu8A82ZxjHo5tTlVxj1fr0%253D%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2047675
Chewed Tapes happen to other more often,probebly they dont clean the heads and the things gummed up with muck.Basically didnt take care of their kit,unlike your good self!
I think the main causes of chewed tapes were bad belts, damaged or extremely dirty pinch rollers and possibly bad idlers. The two main scenarios were loss of take-up tension (the capstan would still move the tape but there's nothing to wind it onto the reel) or really bad pinch rollers causing the tape to skew and crumple against the stationary guides. Playing with plenty of cheap and usually old cassette players as a kid in the 90s I found loss of take-up torque a lot more common. The only two truly shot pinch rollers were in a Saba reel-to-reel (it had a visible line going around the circumference) and in my Technics RS-M235X cassette deck.
Good job. Plastic plectrums from iFixIt kits (they call them Opening Picks) would be better suitable tools to open the fragile plastic case with clips. You're risking to damage it with a metal screwdriver.
Great job, i wonder could you help me. I have the same walkman as seen here. Its playing like the chipmunks. Ive put new batteries in, ive bought and fixed the original belts. Now the motor on this has a spindal coming out of it, i assumed it was for adjustment of speed but im not getting anywhere. Can you help at all x
Nice. I recently got a Walkman off ebay. It's a BF 22 circa 1988, excellent condition and the belts had been changed by the seller. How often do you recommend changing the belts?
I had a Kraco car stereo that shredded so many cassettes, the inside of my car looked like a parade float. The word "Kraco" must stand for "cheap garbage" in some other language.
Ah yeah, I too never really had much trouble with tapes getting eaten by the cassette player I was using. The only few times when it happens was when the machine was either too old and hardly maintained or it was just a very cheap playback deck. That actually only really happened to me on stationary Cassette Players. The only thing my mobile cassette players were eating was BATTERIES :P
Since they're not melted yet, you can try to boil the belts. For the Dolby chip, its datasheet can be found here, under JRC brand : www.alldatasheet.com/view.jsp?Searchword=2063AD To opening this kind of things, any flat plastic bit can really help. Old credit cards, etc. Cell phone opening kits are so cheap that they're some of the must have tools.
Because i didnt have anything else to open it with at the time... and I am not trying to be professional. It was repaired in the end and i'm happy using it. That is what matters.
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accordion background always makes me smile, thank u!
And yet another chillaxing vid, educational at the same time. Cheers!
I miss my Aiwa 202 'DSL', 1989-1990 thereabouts.. lovely Walkman.
Loved your belt storage solution.
Brave repair. One of my Walkmans is still in bits after stripping it down. It was far too fiddly as it's got a radio on it and too many springs.
Good, that you could fix it. I don‘t like those snap-in connections either. The hands are so strong and the plastic is weak :-))) I have recently learned, that guitar picks are pretty helpful when opening them. Once you have opened the enclosure, you can slip them in and move them towards the next clip. It is good to have at least two picks. fender heavies are better than extra light picks. And the „cough drops“ that I used to play are not good, either.
Oooh, a 1987 - 89 That's! Made by Taiyo Yuden.
According to the Cassette Comeback channel they were relatively expensive back in the day and only available at Hi-Fi shops or Our Price stores.
Shame it got damaged
Thankfully I have like 3 Thats tapes, and there is only damage on 20-25cm of the tape, not too bad :o)
They are really nice tapes though, and expensive if you try getting them again... Tapes and personal stereos are starting to get scalped now unfortunately.
Taiyo Yuden also made excellent DVD+-R Blanks. Those were always my blanks of choice for Data backups and they never let me down. It sucked when they became harder and harder to get in my local electronics markets :/
hello I love your repair videos of walkman cassette player, I am a fervent collector of those equipment, greetings from Mexico
Nice job, those crack intro tunes bring back memories. Great stuff
Snap-together plastics are annoying (and fragile). Good job getting it back together... and working as well!
Yeah… Oh those designers always found a way to save screws. And today … there's glue glue glue all over the place.
That Walkman design is really nice. Totally looks like from the early 90s. Got myself a pair of Sony MDR-XB550 headphones recently with just that same kind of vibrant red. So much nicer than the ever dominant boring white that most electronics nowdays seem to have as the only choice of colour. Red and Black together always looks a lot more interesting.
YEY she's workin again! still though, a spring, next to the belt.. a sure fire way to make you have to replace the belts ever 50 milliseconds! sounds good though :)
That's cassettes were great!
Nice easy repair, much easier to open these up using a small kitchen knife with a thin blade, saves from marking the casing to much- got one to look at tonight, needs anew belt, and the radio won't pick up any stations! No idea what that may be though 😊
Un gran trabajo... ¿Tiene algún vídeo en el que repare un display...? Tengo un sintonizador Sony al que se la ido el display y tengo que buscar las emisoras al oído. ¿Solución para eso...? Muchas gracias y un saludo desde Madrid
I’m with you in hating plastic clips. Any time I take something apart that’s held together with clips, no matter how gentle and careful I am I always break at least one of them. Even worse is things that are glued or ultrasonically welded shut, because things get broken and there is no putting it back together cleanly.
I like how she stores her replacement belts in a tobacco bin
Well done on the repair. I've had a few projects that have been stubborn to work.
I got a similar model to one in video but belts I've replaced are too small and now flutters quite bad now. Will fix it one day :)
What you say about the Dolby sound actually makes sense. It does alter the sound a lot with the masking and change of the whole dynamics. Ever re-recorded some music from a CD to a cassette? I mean music you used to listen from a cassette back then whenit was recorded with Dolby noise reduction but on your own new cassette recording it was not used? It just sounds sooo different. Even when you listen to the music from the CD directly and even more so under headphones where you suddenly miss that tingle from the analog noise reduction masking coming from the Dolby circuits. Sounds weird but that's just how it feels.
Love the colour of this red unit. You're my inspiration, wish I have your electronics knowledge, keep up the good work!
Just replaced belts on my WM-F2015 which is of similar design, here is my thought. This dual belts mechanism will cause this problem if one of the belt fail. However some other Walkmans (say WM-FX113) use a much simpler single belt design, in the event of belt failure, both the capstan and take up pulley stop, thus eliminating such problem. Perhaps the dual belt design is better in maintaining speed stability ?
BTW, I used a set of automotive trim panel prying tools to open these type of less expensive snap together Walkmans, works pretty well.
It will cause chewed tapes if the take up belt went out. I whole lot prefer WM-FX113 over WM-F2015 because at least that got one belt. If that goes out it stops both capstan and take up belts.
Ah That's tapes, I still remember the ads for those tapes. Fixing them as well. Evil things!
I had quite a lot of problems with tapes being eaten as a kid, until I discovered that the cheap 3-for-a-pound crappy ones had terrible mechanisms with far too much slack everywhere and the takeup reel would stick causing the tape to be eaten up.
Sometimes the tape would actually fall off the spool inside and end up wrapping itself inside the cassette housing they were so bad.
Then I bought my first decent (Sony in my case) tape and never looked back :)
Whats the song on the black cassette?
I’m pretty sure I had that, with the removable belt clip. It must have come in black too.
Yes they came in red, blue and black I think.
Bonus points for having a knife switch, like some big mad scientist in a black and white movie! mwahaha :)
only lacks a tesla coil sparkling and buzzing :P or a trapdoor opening
Tea and retro electronics, I love you, lol.
do you happen to still have a link to buy those belts in bulk
Yes, there's lots of listings on ebay, this is just one of them: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255129257518?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D247415%26meid%3D0f473a5b90454192aca04692715e364a%26pid%3D101195%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D164190144818%26itm%3D255129257518%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplAMLv11WebTrimmedV3MskuWithLambda85KnnRecallV1V4V6ItemNrtInQueryAndCassiniVisualRankerAndBertRecallAndDynamicRecsysV2b%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p2047675.c101195.m1851&amdata=cksum%3A2551292575180f473a5b90454192aca04692715e364a%7Cenc%3AAQAHAAABYNXyzFqVVJ78aQVsgu30hWP%252FpFuTN4L6%252FYpgt0A2DyQQ%252F6a4RgtHNDv4ihWIkox%252F3OgJ7Tbe6siEL%252FcIaE%252Bmaxb0obf9kiZr1sHxNsR7VMbcmUThN5l4scxVV%252BwVCAiqgB0ztj%252B5xOMwrNdk1BJLXHo1bp%252BuPHr9H%252BRuKy05FkSKKaxw7VE3lQ7xkz7Z0NRO9YcWSBBYhNSzwdLBV3A6rL2zDMov1PeRHi1Hm7ro5IBE3f2XzMU7nTKmHHHPHcRpGjrTnLJSsAv4RqLj1YiGyV6RMscYAMGsFaES6I24Q%252FS4PLXuD8q0c3bD%252FljecpmfI3lktDsBcERbgcBCrJ16nSa4zT5%252BYEoEfhbPOmt3OUBNJ439tRuCuVqtLSQCt%252FQAQjAEz3W218f5FdYOrq0XEIFpCvJ20GOIh55%252F7HvogZ1g3Xd8hXVjCWEuETm9hLoyRnu8A82ZxjHo5tTlVxj1fr0%253D%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2047675
Chewed Tapes happen to other more often,probebly they dont clean the heads and the things gummed up with muck.Basically didnt take care of their kit,unlike your good self!
I think the main causes of chewed tapes were bad belts, damaged or extremely dirty pinch rollers and possibly bad idlers. The two main scenarios were loss of take-up tension (the capstan would still move the tape but there's nothing to wind it onto the reel) or really bad pinch rollers causing the tape to skew and crumple against the stationary guides. Playing with plenty of cheap and usually old cassette players as a kid in the 90s I found loss of take-up torque a lot more common. The only two truly shot pinch rollers were in a Saba reel-to-reel (it had a visible line going around the circumference) and in my Technics RS-M235X cassette deck.
Good job. Plastic plectrums from iFixIt kits (they call them Opening Picks) would be better suitable tools to open the fragile plastic case with clips. You're risking to damage it with a metal screwdriver.
yeah those repair sets are great. Even coming with sucking cups for removing plastic windows or screen covers without breaking them.
Great video. Can you show how to adjust the speed on the sony B14 Mine is playing too fast
Damn cassettes.
My 6128 Plus many times is autopressing stop.
I must troubleshoot it one day.
Great job, i wonder could you help me. I have the same walkman as seen here. Its playing like the chipmunks. Ive put new batteries in, ive bought and fixed the original belts. Now the motor on this has a spindal coming out of it, i assumed it was for adjustment of speed but im not getting anywhere. Can you help at all x
I was lucky to find a WM-FX28 almost new for $3!
Nice. I recently got a Walkman off ebay. It's a BF 22 circa 1988, excellent condition and the belts had been changed by the seller. How often do you recommend changing the belts?
every month
I had a Kraco car stereo that shredded so many cassettes, the inside of my car looked like a parade float. The word "Kraco" must stand for "cheap garbage" in some other language.
Sounds more like it's meant to be Krapo car stereo with some lettering worn out :op
Remarkable little machine that. And doesn't even need a screwdriver to get into :)
I miss my old blue Walkman!
Love hate relationship with dolby.
I know this is a stupid question but do you come from spain ?
Ps: I use casettes for 2 years now and I have never had a tape eaten !
I'm not from Spain, i'm Arabic, but I do speak some Spanish
@@MsMadLemon where do you currently live?
Ah yeah, I too never really had much trouble with tapes getting eaten by the cassette player I was using. The only few times when it happens was when the machine was either too old and hardly maintained or it was just a very cheap playback deck. That actually only really happened to me on stationary Cassette Players. The only thing my mobile cassette players were eating was BATTERIES :P
Awaiting a wm51 for me to fit a new belt
Since they're not melted yet, you can try to boil the belts. For the Dolby chip, its datasheet can be found here, under JRC brand : www.alldatasheet.com/view.jsp?Searchword=2063AD
To opening this kind of things, any flat plastic bit can really help. Old credit cards, etc. Cell phone opening kits are so cheap that they're some of the must have tools.
Is it me or you said ''F***in screw you'' at 0:53 ? (We rarely hear you swearing) haha
Hahah I said "freakin" very quickly, or I would have censored it otherwise :o))
I'm your fan! I love your job!!! congratulations!!!!
Any info on that Giana SIsters intro remix por favor? :)
There's a special place in hell for people that design snap together cases. Is it really so hard to use screw?
not hard, but more expensive
A little help please. If you read my comment. How to fix the autostop in walkman? Thank you.
just fix it
Bellissimo walkman
To be fair to the belts, I too turn to goo when under stress.
GJ my Sister! ;)
I have the same problem with my project d6/d6c
Will you fix my Walkman?
Ole que arte tienes
I sooo need a small pot of rubber belts 👍
Very very good
I brought a walkman in 1985. It lasted 3 months, the mechanism just fell apart and also bad quality sound.
I love your videos! Will you fix my Sony MiniDisc? Please!!!
Yes love cassette tape. Punishment 😅
Shame you didn't show how to open it
if you had any brains and the walkman itself you'd figure out yourself.
@@kjererrt7804 Hahaha.
Ugh, I hate cassette tapes. Or at least, music ones. When I'm not in control of them. SQUEALOPHOBIA IS REAL.
This is not a professional repair. Why you open the walkman with a screwdriver.
Because i didnt have anything else to open it with at the time... and I am not trying to be professional.
It was repaired in the end and i'm happy using it. That is what matters.
Don't fix that piece of shit... Waste time!
Dolby is a bad invention. Masking sounds (and interference)
Without Dolby, usable tape wouldve been another decade.. it really came into play in studio environments
mhaamhhmm... dolby effect... mhhaahm... mhahm.....ooops, painfull to watch and listen
ok
If you'd used a hammer that job would have been completed much sooner.
You can get things working again with a hammer? Nice skills you have :op