usually belts, but if you’ve taken them apart you’d probably notice that? otherwise the most common thing to go wrong in vintage audio is blown/tried capacitors, and that’s ALWAYS a fucken headache.
what’s actually going wrong with em? if they’re eating tapes it’s probably just a gummy pinch roller!
I thought it was the belt because the flywheel bounces when it stops on both. But the belts are new, shit the fly wheels are brand new. Everything looked fine when I inspected the parts, nothing seemed weird putting it back together. I cleaned the photoreceptors just in case because they both also randomly stop. Nothin’ 💀
sounds like maybe the autostop is triggering when it shouldn’t. i had a similar problem on a full size cassette deck but i never actually found out what caused it specifically. i just kept cleaning everything until eventually it worked correctly. MAYBE there’s a tried spring somewhere that’s finding resistance where there isn’t any?
it sucks that everything looks like it should work, but it’s doubly annoying that the problems are happening on a walkman. at least on a desktop cassette deck you can easily tear it down to parts and watch everything work in realtime. that’s a bit of an ask for anything miniaturized 😄
They are both WM-EX631’s (Japanese Purple). Thank you for the advice anyway. I think when I get the chance next I’ll do a deep clean and hopefully it works for me too. Because you are right these parts are so small and so compact to make the device thin that I find it not fun to work on. I do have a transparent case on both of them though so some things I can see. Thanks, again!
ah jeeze my FIRST thought was something like “wow those are crazy thin, i bet some tiny part could break in half and i’d have a hard time even knowing” hahahah
were i in your shoes, my next course of action would be fucken around in the service manual. sorry if i’m getting a little too invested in a stranger’s walkmen, i just have a passion for repairing dead tech!!
They’re pretty cool when they work! I only have two cause the first one started doing this and I asked the seller if he had any repair advice and he just sent me another one and apologized.
God I fucken miss Walkmans. I can’t figure out what’s wrong with either of mine and I have taken them completely apart 🫠
I’m gonna guess that right now the problem is that they’re taken apart
usually belts, but if you’ve taken them apart you’d probably notice that? otherwise the most common thing to go wrong in vintage audio is blown/tried capacitors, and that’s ALWAYS a fucken headache.
what’s actually going wrong with em? if they’re eating tapes it’s probably just a gummy pinch roller!
I thought it was the belt because the flywheel bounces when it stops on both. But the belts are new, shit the fly wheels are brand new. Everything looked fine when I inspected the parts, nothing seemed weird putting it back together. I cleaned the photoreceptors just in case because they both also randomly stop. Nothin’ 💀
sounds like maybe the autostop is triggering when it shouldn’t. i had a similar problem on a full size cassette deck but i never actually found out what caused it specifically. i just kept cleaning everything until eventually it worked correctly. MAYBE there’s a tried spring somewhere that’s finding resistance where there isn’t any?
it sucks that everything looks like it should work, but it’s doubly annoying that the problems are happening on a walkman. at least on a desktop cassette deck you can easily tear it down to parts and watch everything work in realtime. that’s a bit of an ask for anything miniaturized 😄
They are both WM-EX631’s (Japanese Purple). Thank you for the advice anyway. I think when I get the chance next I’ll do a deep clean and hopefully it works for me too. Because you are right these parts are so small and so compact to make the device thin that I find it not fun to work on. I do have a transparent case on both of them though so some things I can see. Thanks, again!
ah jeeze my FIRST thought was something like “wow those are crazy thin, i bet some tiny part could break in half and i’d have a hard time even knowing” hahahah
were i in your shoes, my next course of action would be fucken around in the service manual. sorry if i’m getting a little too invested in a stranger’s walkmen, i just have a passion for repairing dead tech!!
They’re pretty cool when they work! I only have two cause the first one started doing this and I asked the seller if he had any repair advice and he just sent me another one and apologized.
i had like six or seven generations of walkman at this point - a pair of cassette players and then mp3 players. those mp3 players are sturdy as hell.
I got an MP3 after the cassettes broke and transferred everything, but it doesnt hit my heart strings the same unfortunately.
cassettes have this peculiar sound that just makes everything harder
I miss listening to the Cassette Beasts ost cassette on my cassette player