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Trying to salvage an old Sony cassette player. Any advice? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 weeks ago by akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
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Also, why does old battery gunk have to look like earwax... ๐Ÿ˜…

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[โ€“] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's wrong with it / what are you having trouble with?

Kinda hard to offer advice without knowing what the difficulty is.

[โ€“] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So unfortunately there seem to be two symptoms:

  1. The spinning units do not rotate - need to change the rubber band?
  2. There is only sound in one ear (right) - I did clean the headphone jack...
[โ€“] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For issue 2, Can you clean the tape head?

[โ€“] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Done! Forgot to mention, that it also has an AM/FM receiver and that's how I checked the audio.

[โ€“] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Opened it up again and found the culprit for issue #1 ๐Ÿคฃ

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