This was my unit - thanks for having the patience to look at it and tolerate my piss-poor attempt at fixing it heh, it was my first time soldering and I only really did the two wires by the DC converter, must've accidentally yanked the wire off and didn't notice when I was replacing the belts. I had gotten it for 100 dollars and didn't really mind the meh condition it was in (the drilled holes in the door were there already, I never really knew why it was like that), just liking that it had worked (Yes it had worked perfectly up until the playback seemed to stop, tried to replace the belts on it then and thats when the nightmare started), then when it died suddenly one day I just freaked out and tried to service it on my own, bad idea. Also on the shipping it was my first time shipping to Canada so I was abit confused, just glad it got to you though.
Also after watching it through fully - thanks a million, the recorder, although beat up was my baby, and I am infinitely appreciative for your patience with it, again, thanks alot!
@@toffee3944 No problem. These ones are tedious to work on. Your belts are a little on the tight side but it's working despite being a little beat up. Had I showed mine that I picked up for 10 bucks you would be drooling as mine is almost perfect condition. I just happened to be in the 2nd hand store when a guy came out of the back pushing a cart of stuff on it. I saw the D5 and grabbed it. Hadn't even been priced yet. They guy said 10 bucks and I said perfect.There was another guy there eyeing it, and I grabbed it off the cart first. He was not happy said he wanted it and I said too bad so sad, you snooze you loose. Then when i got to the register I was asked if I was over 55 and i said yes and I got 10% off!
Good score on getting the D5M for $10.00. I just discovered your channel a few days ago. I had my suspicions that you had worked for Sony, or a warranty depot of theirs, because you seemed quite comfortable around their products. When I spotted you using an official Sony Walkman screwdriver on the D5M, my suspicions were confirmed. I worked in the Sony factory service centre in Richmond for 12 years in the early eighties, as an audio tech at first, and then as a video tech. I was trained on the very first CD player, the CDP-101, when CD’s hit the market, as well as the Beta video products, including Betamovie, and the first Beta HI-FI machines, followed by the 8 mm products, all of which I suspect that you have worked on. We might even know each other.
It's impressive how tenacious you are and the amount of patience you are able to exhibit when tackling these challenges. It's a great time watching you chug through! :-)
Restored a D5M I got off auction a few months ago, and boy, is it a beast. Recording and playback from this thing sounds amazing, was worth the trouble fixing. Seriously wonder why people mess around with things when they haven't got the slightest clue of what their doing. Btw you can get new rubber for this easily. I got a full kit of new rubber which 100% improved the wow and flutter, just be prepared to spend an hour scraping hardened rubber off the idle tyre since its bonded really well to the metal from the factory.
@@florianm3170 @florianm3170 yep same from ali. Came in a dodgy zip lock bag that has D5M written on it with a sharpie. Surprisingly, the kit fits and works perfectly. Just get ready to spend alot of time removing the rubber off the main idle tyre, use a sharp knife to cut off as much rubber as you can then use fine grit sandpaper to get the rest of the residue
@@Infinite_OuroborosThanks, I got that kit as a precaution, at the moment all of my decks still work, but it's good to know that the kit works. I had one deck which had an enormous amount of battery acid damage, the stabilizer board was completely eaten away and i had to re-build each connection from scratch. So if you see any white stains on the outer casing next to the battery box beware. I get a lot of belts, idler rubbers and pinch rollers from aliexpress directly instead of buying a "belt kit" from e-bay, essentially the exact same things are sold 5x dearer.
@florianm3170 Awesome. Just be aware that some walkmans are much more sensitive and need quality belts to run without wow and flutter. I also bought a bunch of assorted belts from ali but noticed they cause alot of warble on smaller walkmans like the wm677 or ex series, it was due to the belts being cut improperly and being thicker on one side. They're good to have for testing repairs, but I would always recommend buying the quality belts from "fix your audio".
Love your videos. I've watched all your TC-D5M videos because i bought one locally in new condition with boxes, accessories, etc.. incase i need to fix it. I recently got a WM- D6C and fixed that aswell.
Ciao, si vede che hai molta competenza nel trovare il guasto e risolvere i problemi sulle elettroniche, ma hai anche tantissima pazienza e senza quella non si riesce a portare a termine il lavoro. Grazie per i tuoi video che vedo sempre molto volentieri. Un saluto dall'Italia. Ciao
If it wasn't for the switch wires being soldered together you'd think the wires had just come off. Don't forget to double box it and put a value of $500 on it when you ship it back. Those mail companies aren't rich enough yet.
Very interesting to see this video. I have a D5 that I used for years and when it worked well it was a great deck, but I never knew how complex its innards were. Enough to make you pull your hair out in frustration!
DAT were cool the way they worked but because they used a spinning head drum they suffered all the same problems as VCRs. Tape wear, head wear, alignment, condensation causing eaten tapes. Bring a tape in from the cold and not allow enough time for it to warm up (and dry) and you end up with a pile of tape inside. So for portable or mobile use they were a disaster waiting to happen. They were the best recording medium available and they found their way into professional applications in far greater numbers than consumer. Radio and TV stations used, as well as the recording industry untill flash based and hard drive based recording replaced it. I have a few DAT recorders and a bunch of tapes I recorded years ago. I use the format now more for transferring old tapes to CD or digital. One machine I really do like is my Tascam CD recorder. It records direct to CDR or CDRW (I usually use RW and then once I am happy copy that disk to a CDR) All the benefits in terms of sound as DAT, but no tape to break or wear out. The one I have does not require those expensive audio formatted disks, and I can load a CD loaded with MP3 and it plays them perfectly with batter sound that most DVD players that play MP3 do.
Hi Dave, it's a good thing you had lunch before working on the infamous mission impossible self destruct tape recorder!!, what a mess!, and who drills holes into the cassette housing?!
What a nightmare. There has to be more than one person to screw it up so bad. If i had one to repair and it was in that state, i would show him the door. My patience is shorter now.
They would need to be dirt cheap. I know someone that paid more to have cams printed for his akai r-r. Then he sold the unit for less than the parts cost.
I just bought one of those for cheap compared to ebay prices and even though i like how it is, there's a lot of wow and flutter after using it for a couple minutes. The capstan wheel is perfect but i think this is the first time that some caps are bad. I suspect that because it doesn't have good volume either
My daily driver phone is a 2015 Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge with the original battery. It is weak, I have to use the most energy saving mode, and even then it lasts only 1.5 days in standby or about 40 minutes talk time. I plan to replace the battery in it, but it is not puffed up yet. I don't want to wait until it puffs up, because it can break the display. The OLED display is also horribly burnt, but it doesn't bother me too much. I am the third owner of the phone, inherited it 1.5 years ago. The first owner watched (listened) so much CZcams on it that the YT app has burnt into the screen heavily, even the title of her most viewed playlist is legible 😂 . I would replace the screen but it costs more than the value of the phone, so I won't. Maybe if I can find a cheap/free one with a dead mobo but good screen. I really like this phone, amazing that it's still not unusably slow despite being 9 years old, and the battery is also still somewhat usable after 8+ years of daily use.
So to those who think they know better that the technician who's been working on these kind of things, for likely longer than you've been alive, are you sure you know more than him? Are you certain? What have you worked on? How about you make some videos and post them? Also, great video, funny how people trying to save a buck trying to fix their own things end up spending way more in the end because of it? Also I kinda thought at first it was a DAT video. Was at first a little excited because I'd only ever seen one Sony DAT machine in a tabletop configuration, as most were Walkman form factors.
Don't worry there are more DAT videos coming unfortunately. I say that because they get about 1/10 the views. I wasn't joking about the light bulb vs dat video views. These old dat are so old that they just keep breaking down. 2 of mine are broken again. Just from sitting for a few months.
@@12voltvids Oof. Too bad there aren't enough guys around who care enough to make righ quality 3D printed versions of those nasty little gears. Is there a carbon fibre filament option for 3D printers these days? Or maybe try to make a metal version of them? Maybe???? I know some years back Dr. Walkman was messing about with hybrid metal/plastic drive gears for the direct drive Walkman cassette players.
Thanks Dave. Can you move the Camera a wee bit away from You ? Your Wonderful Head of Hair keeps getting in the Shot. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... Sorry I had too... Mike M.
Sony made a playback speed tool that lined up with those reels 3 white lines it measured the speed of them rotating, but that was a dumb ass move to drill holes in the case, jesus there are some real idiots around, there was no need to do that it clipped on to the unit when the door was open
Trouble is with them barrel dc plugs you gets kids playing around plugging laptop chargers flipped polarity plugs allsorts plugged into them and burn things out.
@@3Cr15w311cassette deck and reel to reel have to be the simplest of any type of tape recorder. Helical scan tape transports such as used in DAT, VCR are far more complex. Traverse scanning (2" quad VTR) is even more complex. I get a good laugh when people say they like the old VCRs that loaded and unloaded every time you press play or stop and rewind the tape unloaded. These ones had far higher failure rates and damaged tapes like they were going out of style. every time you hit play or stop and that tape had to load or unload there was a chance that it would get creased. This is where beta reigned supreme (and 8mm for that matter) as the tape was kept threaded. VHS eventually caught on and did the same. Greatest chance of tape damage is threading and unthreading. Best to do this at the end of the tape.
This was my unit - thanks for having the patience to look at it and tolerate my piss-poor attempt at fixing it heh, it was my first time soldering and I only really did the two wires by the DC converter, must've accidentally yanked the wire off and didn't notice when I was replacing the belts.
I had gotten it for 100 dollars and didn't really mind the meh condition it was in (the drilled holes in the door were there already, I never really knew why it was like that), just liking that it had worked (Yes it had worked perfectly up until the playback seemed to stop, tried to replace the belts on it then and thats when the nightmare started), then when it died suddenly one day I just freaked out and tried to service it on my own, bad idea.
Also on the shipping it was my first time shipping to Canada so I was abit confused, just glad it got to you though.
Also after watching it through fully - thanks a million, the recorder, although beat up was my baby, and I am infinitely appreciative for your patience with it, again, thanks alot!
@@toffee3944 No problem. These ones are tedious to work on. Your belts are a little on the tight side but it's working despite being a little beat up. Had I showed mine that I picked up for 10 bucks you would be drooling as mine is almost perfect condition. I just happened to be in the 2nd hand store when a guy came out of the back pushing a cart of stuff on it. I saw the D5 and grabbed it. Hadn't even been priced yet. They guy said 10 bucks and I said perfect.There was another guy there eyeing it, and I grabbed it off the cart first. He was not happy said he wanted it and I said too bad so sad, you snooze you loose. Then when i got to the register I was asked if I was over 55 and i said yes and I got 10% off!
Good score on getting the D5M for $10.00. I just discovered your channel a few days ago. I had my suspicions that you had worked for Sony, or a warranty depot of theirs, because you seemed quite comfortable around their products. When I spotted you using an official Sony Walkman screwdriver on the D5M, my suspicions were confirmed. I worked in the Sony factory service centre in Richmond for 12 years in the early eighties, as an audio tech at first, and then as a video tech. I was trained on the very first CD player, the CDP-101, when CD’s hit the market, as well as the Beta video products, including Betamovie, and the first Beta HI-FI machines, followed by the 8 mm products, all of which I suspect that you have worked on. We might even know each other.
It's impressive how tenacious you are and the amount of patience you are able to exhibit when tackling these challenges. It's a great time watching you chug through! :-)
Nice to see you work on another TCD-5m, you fixed mine a couple years back, I dropped it and you found a crack on the dc to dc converter.
Yes i remember.
I like those recorders too. Never had one, it's the style and VU meters
Uher report recorders, that's where that meter style was used.
Restored a D5M I got off auction a few months ago, and boy, is it a beast. Recording and playback from this thing sounds amazing, was worth the trouble fixing. Seriously wonder why people mess around with things when they haven't got the slightest clue of what their doing. Btw you can get new rubber for this easily. I got a full kit of new rubber which 100% improved the wow and flutter, just be prepared to spend an hour scraping hardened rubber off the idle tyre since its bonded really well to the metal from the factory.
Which kit did you use for that. I bought one from Alliexpress but haven't installed it yet?
@@florianm3170 @florianm3170 yep same from ali. Came in a dodgy zip lock bag that has D5M written on it with a sharpie. Surprisingly, the kit fits and works perfectly. Just get ready to spend alot of time removing the rubber off the main idle tyre, use a sharp knife to cut off as much rubber as you can then use fine grit sandpaper to get the rest of the residue
@@Infinite_OuroborosThanks, I got that kit as a precaution, at the moment all of my decks still work, but it's good to know that the kit works. I had one deck which had an enormous amount of battery acid damage, the stabilizer board was completely eaten away and i had to re-build each connection from scratch.
So if you see any white stains on the outer casing next to the battery box beware.
I get a lot of belts, idler rubbers and pinch rollers from aliexpress directly instead of buying a "belt kit" from e-bay, essentially the exact same things are sold 5x dearer.
@florianm3170 Awesome. Just be aware that some walkmans are much more sensitive and need quality belts to run without wow and flutter. I also bought a bunch of assorted belts from ali but noticed they cause alot of warble on smaller walkmans like the wm677 or ex series, it was due to the belts being cut improperly and being thicker on one side. They're good to have for testing repairs, but I would always recommend buying the quality belts from "fix your audio".
Love your videos. I've watched all your TC-D5M videos because i bought one locally in new condition with boxes, accessories, etc.. incase i need to fix it. I recently got a WM- D6C and fixed that aswell.
Why the heck do people try to work on machines when they don't know what they are doing! Dave you got it going again a good job!
People want to try. You can't learn if you don't try.
Your so right. I used to do the same thing as a young man. Tinker with every and once in awhile I'd come out doing a good job.
Ciao, si vede che hai molta competenza nel trovare il guasto e risolvere i problemi sulle elettroniche, ma hai anche tantissima pazienza e senza quella non si riesce a portare a termine il lavoro. Grazie per i tuoi video che vedo sempre molto volentieri. Un saluto dall'Italia. Ciao
If it wasn't for the switch wires being soldered together you'd think the wires had just come off. Don't forget to double box it and put a value of $500 on it when you ship it back. Those mail companies aren't rich enough yet.
Nice Resurrection dude! those are pretty nice recorders, but this one looks to have been to hell and back.
Very interesting to see this video. I have a D5 that I used for years and when it worked well it was a great deck, but I never knew how complex its innards were. Enough to make you pull your hair out in frustration!
I find the DAT videos entertaining. I’ve never had a DAT recorder. So I find the technology interesting.
DAT were cool the way they worked but because they used a spinning head drum they suffered all the same problems as VCRs. Tape wear, head wear, alignment, condensation causing eaten tapes. Bring a tape in from the cold and not allow enough time for it to warm up (and dry) and you end up with a pile of tape inside. So for portable or mobile use they were a disaster waiting to happen. They were the best recording medium available and they found their way into professional applications in far greater numbers than consumer. Radio and TV stations used, as well as the recording industry untill flash based and hard drive based recording replaced it. I have a few DAT recorders and a bunch of tapes I recorded years ago. I use the format now more for transferring old tapes to CD or digital.
One machine I really do like is my Tascam CD recorder. It records direct to CDR or CDRW (I usually use RW and then once I am happy copy that disk to a CDR)
All the benefits in terms of sound as DAT, but no tape to break or wear out. The one I have does not require those expensive audio formatted disks, and I can load a CD loaded with MP3 and it plays them perfectly with batter sound that most DVD players that play MP3 do.
Hi Dave, it's a good thing you had lunch before working on the infamous mission impossible self destruct tape recorder!!, what a mess!, and who drills holes into the cassette housing?!
He bought it that way. You should see mine it's almost perfect.
Another one saved from the scrapheap. Nice job Dave!
What a nightmare.
There has to be more than one person to screw it up so bad.
If i had one to repair and it was in that state, i would show him the door.
My patience is shorter now.
Money looser
They would need to be dirt cheap. I know someone that paid more to have cams printed for his akai r-r. Then he sold the unit for less than the parts cost.
I just bought one of those for cheap compared to ebay prices and even though i like how it is, there's a lot of wow and flutter after using it for a couple minutes. The capstan wheel is perfect but i think this is the first time that some caps are bad. I suspect that because it doesn't have good volume either
where did you get it?
Samsung Li-Ion cells only puff up or burn down. That's all they can do.
My daily driver phone is a 2015 Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge with the original battery. It is weak, I have to use the most energy saving mode, and even then it lasts only 1.5 days in standby or about 40 minutes talk time. I plan to replace the battery in it, but it is not puffed up yet. I don't want to wait until it puffs up, because it can break the display. The OLED display is also horribly burnt, but it doesn't bother me too much.
I am the third owner of the phone, inherited it 1.5 years ago. The first owner watched (listened) so much CZcams on it that the YT app has burnt into the screen heavily, even the title of her most viewed playlist is legible 😂 . I would replace the screen but it costs more than the value of the phone, so I won't. Maybe if I can find a cheap/free one with a dead mobo but good screen. I really like this phone, amazing that it's still not unusably slow despite being 9 years old, and the battery is also still somewhat usable after 8+ years of daily use.
Great work keeping more junk from the tip.
12Volt! I have a really important question, and brain picking to run by you! Haha. It’s about a pioneer head unit with a dim display….
That sounds like car audio. Don't work on car audio. Never have never will.
@@12voltvids oh crap. I didn’t know you didn’t do car Audio. Know a guy that does?
Hi again, Dave, have you thought about using your large monitor to view the schematics?, just a thought, great video!
So to those who think they know better that the technician who's been working on these kind of things, for likely longer than you've been alive, are you sure you know more than him? Are you certain? What have you worked on? How about you make some videos and post them? Also, great video, funny how people trying to save a buck trying to fix their own things end up spending way more in the end because of it? Also I kinda thought at first it was a DAT video. Was at first a little excited because I'd only ever seen one Sony DAT machine in a tabletop configuration, as most were Walkman form factors.
Don't worry there are more DAT videos coming unfortunately. I say that because they get about 1/10 the views. I wasn't joking about the light bulb vs dat video views. These old dat are so old that they just keep breaking down. 2 of mine are broken again. Just from sitting for a few months.
@@12voltvids Oof. Too bad there aren't enough guys around who care enough to make righ quality 3D printed versions of those nasty little gears. Is there a carbon fibre filament option for 3D printers these days? Or maybe try to make a metal version of them? Maybe???? I know some years back Dr. Walkman was messing about with hybrid metal/plastic drive gears for the direct drive Walkman cassette players.
Got to love your work pal your like a Jack Russell with a Rat ...You won't let I go until its done . 🇬🇧..
Thanks Dave.
Can you move the Camera a wee bit away from You ?
Your Wonderful Head of Hair keeps getting in the Shot. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... Sorry I had too...
Mike M.
At least I still have hair 😄
@@12voltvids At almost 64, Mine is good too,
At least I can now grow a Nice beard too...
this tape deck has a bias adjustamend option? also why has someone drilled two holes in the transparent door of the cassette?😂
yes it’s a bunch of solder bridges
I think they drilled holes to be able to see the spindles turning.....the plastic has a glare especially outside.
Just my guess.
@@3dsmaxrocks699 I would never spoil the cosmetics of such a beautiful device
It was my unit - I have no clue why it had holes drilled in it, I've been meaning to replace it at some point.
@@toffee3944 is it yours and you gave it for repair ?? you could remove the plastic window and stick a beautiful thin glass in its place✨
Sony made a playback speed tool that lined up with those reels 3 white lines it measured the speed of them rotating, but that was a dumb ass move to drill holes in the case, jesus there are some real idiots around, there was no need to do that it clipped on to the unit when the door was open
He probably bought it on eBay for some ridiculous price.
Sellers on ebay are on drugs m8 theyre not worth anything really@@12voltvids
I got a marantz pmd-430 in this kind of shape wires cut parts missing total mess
Trouble is with them barrel dc plugs you gets kids playing around plugging laptop chargers flipped polarity plugs allsorts plugged into them and burn things out.
Looks like someone just messed this up just to see if you can fix it.
No, it's called inexperience. Remember I have been doing this for over 40 years and up until 2003 did it for a living.
i just got a Emerson vcr 767 trying to fix it
The CZcamsr Shango066 uses rechargeable Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries to power the AM & FM radios while he's repairing them
Power supply can be current limited. Batteries can't.
Has someone actually cut holes in the clear top?
Someone did. And t hen they sold it on fleabay
@@12voltvids Jeez
Cassette players have to be one of the most complicated structures on Earth.
Not even close
@@12voltvidsAny helical-scan video recorder is much more complex than a linear-scan device like this. :)
@@3Cr15w311cassette deck and reel to reel have to be the simplest of any type of tape recorder. Helical scan tape transports such as used in DAT, VCR are far more complex. Traverse scanning (2" quad VTR) is even more complex. I get a good laugh when people say they like the old VCRs that loaded and unloaded every time you press play or stop and rewind the tape unloaded. These ones had far higher failure rates and damaged tapes like they were going out of style. every time you hit play or stop and that tape had to load or unload there was a chance that it would get creased. This is where beta reigned supreme (and 8mm for that matter) as the tape was kept threaded. VHS eventually caught on and did the same. Greatest chance of tape damage is threading and unthreading. Best to do this at the end of the tape.
@@12voltvids I’d love to see you work on an Ampex VR-1000. :)
@@3Cr15w311 never gonna happen.
There someone has this unit on sale on Ebay wanting almost 250.00 and it looks bad
I paid 10 for mine.
I hate OPFU's (other people freak ups). Please, if you don't know what you're doing, don't mess with it...
How was I supposed to learn if I don't atleast try.