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@@PercyScribble thank you so much !

@@FunzieOne choices these days are really limited , and due to lack of good transport development and manufacturing quality is just no longer available new

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy yeah, its sad

@@retro2409 I think you made the right choice going with the denon early 90s to mid 2000’s is not comparable in terms of quality , the denon is clearly a better machine

webspareparts.com/products/belt-kit-for-cassette-player-panasonic-sa-ak27 ali ove sve-u-jednom male sustave nije lako popraviti ako imate malo iskustva but these all-in-one small systems are nt easy to repair if you have little experience

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy hvala na odgovoru. Nemam neko iskustvo al moram pokušati.

from what i can see they are ALPS copies , the ALPS transports where widely used in the mid 90ies and these look like they were copied from that , or maybe simplified versions of those earlier transports

Nice isn’t it?

you can stack multiple of these on top of each other and then use them all at once , ie start recording all at once, at the same time dank je wel ;-)

Take you time and don’t rush it , it may take a few tries but in the end it’ll work

I wished I could just play my own music ! And thank you for subscribing

first 500 ;-) when we get to 1000 there will be something else

sure, let me see if i can find one for a reasonable price , may take awhile

i cant seem to find a pdf from the service manual ? i would have to look into the transport and see whats going on before giving any heads ups the silent treatment was just a fun little test , i am reverting back to my shatty old self shortly ;-)

i used to work for yamaha repairing these , solid machines with fantastic sound !

You are absolutely correct ! I wondered how many people would notice 😉 It’s not an auto reverse deck so the flywheels should not be running opposite, I corrected it after I posted the video

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy thank you.

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy I point myself as a carefull one but i still cannot make my Kenwood KX-7030 playing with a good wow and flutter.

@@nikossoursos7032 did you try another belt from another source ? Can you see which frequency causes the W&F to be high ?

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy I have tried many belts but not from a differene source. This will be my next step.

I hope you enjoyed it ? Just trying something different 😊

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy I prefer a little talk for what are you doing. But it is still ok.

@@nikossoursos7032 its hard for me to be this silent , so next video's will be 'normal' again ;-)

thank you !

and they are far superior in sound quality , both recording and playback , but they are more difficult to carry around for mobile listening ;-)

the erase head does not need any adjustment , only the record / play head . the erase head is even screwed in place without any possibility to adjust. the reason is that since it erases both channels at the same time and there is enough room between 'side a' and 'side b' of the tape so even if its slightly misaligned it wont affect the other side of the tape but will still erase the side that needs to be erased i hope this helps ?

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy Very helpful thank you

Cassette recorder + portable , it’s a Walkman ! 🤣

Yes , teenagers can be annoying

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy Yes, but it's the path of life and growing up. Your a patient dad who want's to impart his knowledge to the younger generation. I like this format of your video's, you just got a new subscriber. Thanks for sharing.

@@brianwood5220 thank you so much ! i was just contemplating another kind of retirement ;-) , all jokes aside , i like working with my kids , i just spend 6 years 24/7 with them watching them grow (up) and i am glad they're not completely fed up with me , so whenever she wants to help , ask questions and be 'teenager annoying' i welcome her to come and assist

The D also had the FeCr setting ? I didn’t realize that , thanks for clearing that up

I have had 50/50 good experiences with this supplier , some belts are great , some are bad so test them and see if they work for you

the yamaha belts are pretty good, i have seen 45-50 year old belts that are still good and probably better what you can buy today !! btw, we all love fish and marillion here ;-) the deck behind is a k-540 , same series as the k-340 !

They are now quite rare I assume ? , I have only seen 20 or so of these when I worked for Yamaha and with the passing of time I can only imagine how many are still around The sound quality is typical mid 70ies and the FeCr button (type III tapes) was the best there was at the time , but it will play and record type II’s just fine and records up to 16kHz

Thank you ! Little old chatty me will just carry on 😁

no offense taken ;-) but i am repairing it real time and trying to explain what i am doing so that the next person that comes across this deck and needs to repair it can follow along , but if double speed works for you so much the better

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy And that's what I mean, keep it more short and simple. Makes it easier for the viewers.

@@drdolby1585 I wish there was a way to keep it down to 5 minutes , or even 30 minutes ? Repair takes time and I personally dislike it when I need some info and the person showing me skips over that exact part that I need , but we all have our own preferences 😁

I love the format. I'm happy to have found your channel & I am subscribed. Many repair videos skip over or dob't emphasise much on the repairs​@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy

@@ShazeemKhan thank you soo ! much !! i appreciate it

For the squealing, have you tried another cassette ? But oiling the bronze motor bearing might do the trick

Ps the bronze motor bearing is the bronze piece where the motor shaft comes out of the main motor (with the black flat belt) the reel motor has a similar bronze bearing , the smallest amount of oil should help if that is the problem

​@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hyYeah, I tried several tapes. I'm testing it now. With this test, at first neither side would play a tape (store bought tapes). It would just stop after a few seconds. Then I got a home recorded tape and both decks played it. I then played a store bought pre-recorded tape again and both sides played it. Weird. The squealing on deck 2 is more off and on today. Not constant. I will remove the transports soon and have a go at oiling the motors and maybe changing the belts, and having a look at the black and silver pattern on the gears to see if it needs cleaning. Is the black and silver pattern on both gears on each deck? Your video will be a huge help in tackling this thing, so thank you very much!

WebSpareParts are a bit hit and miss , some belts are great and others cause (very) high W&F , I am now ordering from www.electro-andijk.NL , they seem to be better quality , also www.thakker.eu seems to be well regarded with regards to their belt quality

Thank you ! Should be a ‘fun’ one as we have some weird things going on electronically

Hey Anthony, I prefer the mechanics over electronics as just probing a board with scope and multimeter makes (in my opinion) very boring video’s ? I can show and tell a transport and explain its workings to non technical people but an parts level crash course in electronics? I’d rather not

I don’t think so but am looking , I may have to use a white led And these 880ies X1’s are really nice

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy Okay thanks , yeah they replace with the warm white type LED around here usually. I was told they also last much longer. A few 880 decks with various differences, really nice deck.

Rubber renew is not sold here , tri-chloride (what we used to use ‘back then’) is banned so I am using 99.9% iso alcohol which evaporates without leaving a trace ? I am in the ‘use alcohol’ camp for now But a new idler is on order

those sony's have an issue with the motor gear , search google for "Sony TC-WA7ES motor gear" and "fixyouraudio" sells a replacement that is supposed to be good

congrats on the 59th !! were the same age ;-) those technics and nakamichi's are pretty cool , i have a nakamichi on the workbench soon , as soon as i have the belt kit we'll start working on that one (and record it) when you pull a transport apart make sure you take loads of pics so see where everything goes. and dont take too long putting it back together as you will forget where everything went ! i am sure you do great

The 321 is a good little deck , if you maintain it it will run for a long time I used to have the hardware version of the T-100 when I repaired decks eons ago , so I was very glad to find this software version , it works really well and I would recommend it !

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy Sweet , that’s pretty cool you worked with the real deal. I had to repair the little plastic gear ring the auto reverse head is attached to because it had shrunk and split , which made the fan shaped gear slip some cogs and then it would jam the mechanism. Not sure if the repair worked yet I haven’t reversed the head yet lol.

@@universalhead those gear below the head are prone to break when the head mechanism has a problem and the cannot be (easily) replaced as they are part of the rotate mechanism , maybe a donor head assy can be found ?

If you really wanted to I suppose you could , but then the end of the flywheel is greased and that grease will end up all over the belt. It’s only a few screws to remove the motor plate and you can bend a hook from a paperclip , for me that is a lot easier than trying to fiddle the belt back in place without removing the plate with motor

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy makes total sense! That grease is something that I would certainly keep off the belts and. reason enough to do open things up and do it the right way.

Thank you ! I’ve been posting 1-2 vids per week and will continue to do so (I still have a stack of decks that need service & repair)

Thank you !

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@ronscortan this might be easier , just send me an email : cassettedeckrepair@gmail.com

i like working with her !

Would you ? Because you are recording and playing on the same deck , so let’s say your deck runs 20% faster than any other deck. Now record a 3kHz tape and play it back (or use the “tape” on a 3 head) and it plays back a 3kHz tone Now take that recorded tape to another deck , will it play 3kHz ? Or 3kHz minus 20% ? (As the recording deck is 20% fast)

Aside from a few functions the 900 and 952 are largely the same

Very nice!

Personally I believe the mid and higher end Yamaha’s are still underrated, specially these days where you can pick them up for nearly no money and they perform really well

more video's are coming ! and thank you !

Thank you ! My fav double as well

I am glad it helped ! You can do this if needed

i just posted a video where i ran into the same issue and it turned out to be the replacement belt was cr*p , you may want to replace the belt again maybe from a more reputable source ? , also look at the back tension belt that is runs smooth and also the capstan oil washers that they run free from the transport but also not touching the cassette ? also clean the bronze bearing and the capstan and a small drop of oil into the bearing

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy Thank you!

we listen to everything but officially its Rene & Robin ;-) . the kx-400 is an auto reverse deck if i remember correctly ? so that has a different transport from the k-540 which is not an auto reverse

@@cassettedeckandwalkmanre-mw1hy Ah ok & thanks for correcting me Rene, Another difference I’ve noticed is that the 400 uses a mechanical (wheel) counter whereas the 540 uses a digital (led) counter if I’m not mistaken?