My daily driver Walkman?

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  @Jingleboy14 · 4 years ago

  As time goes on, my appreciation of the engineers who were able to shrink cassette mechanisms to this size vastly grows. Everything now seems so simple with digital media -  you don't really comprehend how it works, it just does. Seeing the tiny belt, how the unit is so thin a AA battery won't fit, yet you get a 35-hour lifespan is just wonderful.

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• TH

  @The_OG_Cujo · 4 years ago

  I'm glad to see Sony have always named thier products by letting a cat walk across a keyboard.

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• DA

  @David-lr2vi · 3 years ago

  Well there is one advantage to having the AA battery caddy on the bottom of the unit. At least if you accidentally leave a battery in it you only wreck the caddy and not the whole unit.

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• RE

  @Retro-Technical · 4 years ago

  On the WM-EX672 to remove the back, you will need the remove the plastic gum stick battery cover/clip and then lift the cover from the case battery side cover side first in a dorr opening action, because the case fits under the headphone/remote connector.   New pinch rollers for these will also improve your W&F and they are an easy change.

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• RY

  @ryanaccount3591 · 4 years ago

  this is the most comforting channel on YouTube. I'm surprised he's not sponsored, but that makes me like this channel even more. Techmoan is an honest, funny, smart cool guy.

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• DI

  @dimitarlazarov2094 · 4 years ago

  I've serviced a lot of Sony cassette devices. I think that the wow and flutter are caused by the pinch rollers. From 1992 and onwards the part of the pinch rollers where the rubber strip have been vulcanised at the two ends becomes slightly harder than the rest. The older it gets the worse it becomes. I believe 20 odd years of being sat in a box is long enough time to start showing some signs of rubber degradation. Perhaps some rubber renew applied in a very thin layer and running it for a while will help softening the rollers and will improve it a bit

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• CA

  @carterucm · 4 years ago (edited)

  What is your 'daily driver' cassette walkman - and could you make a video about it? Thanks!

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• MI

  @Miichal-fs6jr · 4 years ago

  The broken walkman has a switch on the other side of the motherboard, that is connected to the tape mechanism to detect the position of the cogs. I had the same problem with the autorevers switching back and forth and cleaning that switch with IPA fixed it.

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• IM

  @imnotangry7594 · 4 years ago

  To adjust the speed, there is a variable resistor on the circuit board.

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• BE

  @BethAltair4 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Oh my gosh! That black seal is a Dixon&apos;s /Currys security seal! I put so many thousand of those on things in the late 90&apos;s early 00s :)<br><br>For reference, if you ever see one, &quot;return to 7800&quot; was the internal returns sticker for customer returns. Mostly it was all fine though :)

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• SW

  @swelch2661 · 3 years ago

  Recently, in an imaginary YouTube comment form someone who doesn&apos;t exist, it was said &quot;Great Techmoan Video&quot;

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• PA

  @paulduggan5323 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Whenever I discover a new channel, well, new to me, I have a habit of overindulging on it. But I have never overindulged on any channel as much as I have on yours. I spent most of daytime yesterday and most of today catching up letting YouTube feed me random videos. Hardly a video goes by without a reference to a belt which just got me thinking. I’ve had my trio (Kenwood) record deck for 47 years now and it got all the way to its 46th year before the belt broke. Obviously, I ordered a new one and it’s still soldiering on. They don’t make things like they did up to the 70s. Keep up the good work I’m really enjoying the channel. It’s fascinating stuff and your presentation technique is masterful. As somebody who used to work for a well-known British broadcaster (not the talent I’m behind the scenes) I could easily believe that you have taken some sort of media training but my guess is you’re just a natural. I love your humour and also the humour of that tape deck that could take six cassettes wasn’t lost on me.<br><br>PS meant to say how I only learned yesterday (from your good self) that you get more dosh from YouTubers who pay for ad-free viewing. Well you’ll be pleased to know that I am one such subscriber so you’ve probably earned a good ten pence more with my constant streaming.

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