That is a great trick, boiling the belts. I will have to remember that one. I have never seen a volume control that cheap before. I was amazed. I guess, since it still works, it met the need quite well.
That's not worthless! It's a great size for taking anywhere in the house, particularly the bathroom, but also the kitchen or bedroom, whatever. Fits in a small bag for work or college, even just taking to the park, maybe fishing. Just the right size for many many uses. I could probably get £30 ($40-ish) for it if it were given a good clean. I'm just getting back into tapes and FM radio and I've got a big ass portable JVC from '92 with twin tape decks that need fixing up, that belt boiling tip may come in useful!
Hey, for a little beater radio those things are great and get the job done. If it falls off the table and disintegrates your not out a ton of money. Your DJ moves on the volume slider had me laughing....love your vids...
Always have two people to a ladder - one to climb, the other to phone for the ambulance. Great tip on boiling the belts! And, yes, definitely worth the repair - if you had bought a new one it would have been stone dead in a year and a day.
At least he wore a hard hat. About 16 years ago I was working for a satellite TV company between my TV repair gig and current job. One job a dumb customer was standing below me watching. I was l yelling at him to get away from the ladder. Unfortunately he doesn't speak English. As I am placing the dish a gust of wind blew the dish out of my hands. (I am hanging onto the roof overhang as this gust came out of nowhere. Dish flew off hit the guy standing watching. At least he broke the fall of the dish and it didn't get damaged. Dam that could have cost me 40 bucks.
Oh my god... The boiling trick works well. I've tried it on my cassette recorder belt and it actually made it round as it should've been. This is why I love your channel, it really helps me. :)
Ha ha ha, yes it works. I learned that trick when I was a young tech still learning the trade. Naturally when a belt was available we would replace it, and if it turned to goo it had to be replaced, but for a good percentage that were just slipping, it works. I have tape decks I did this on 10 years ago and they are still working.
I've had a couple of Panasonic branded units which looked similar to this, but the internals were exactly the same, even the circuit board and the rest of the layout. All of them developed switch problems after a while. They lasted for many years in a steamy greasy kitchen.
@@12voltvids There's a reason that those stupid slide controls were only used popularly for a few years on mainstream quality electronics like stereos, TVs etc. in the early 1970s. While they look neat, they get full of dust and dirt. Now they're just relegated to little cheap items like this. I have an early '70s Panasonic all in one stereo that I need to clean the controls on, quite scratchy, in some cases you can spray cleaner from the front, but not on double gang controls.
Thank YOU!!!! I have a radio CASSETTE RECORDER and it doesn't work but I CAN'T bring myself to get rid off it. Here goes a girl hands on to fix my cassette player!!! The tip to boil the belt? Just genius!!
The boiling belt trick I learned from my first practical electronics teacher at the first TV shop I worked at back in 1979. He did it with slipping turntable belts all the time because there were so many different sizes. Then when I got into the trade I got to talking to other technicians and found out that they all did it, but they all told me to never divulge this to customers. It was a trade secret, like the Kentucky fried chicken recipe. It was an easy way to make money. Would never say "replaced belt" it was always "re-tension" belt, or adjust belt, or any other word other than replace so there could be no consequences if it didn't last. Most worked file. Some formulations of belt didn't work but you found that out pretty quick because it either works or it doesn't. When belts were available you changed it if you had one, but if not the boiling belt trick was charged before ordering it is because ordering a belt usually meant placing a minimum quantity, and then the wait for the parts to come, all the while the customer is phoning every day looking for a status update.
I know one thing. I opened up a mid 80's knob tuned 19 inch Sanyo built Sears TV just for the heck of it one time. I was amazed at how small the chassis is for the time period. I have a good 20 TV's running around. I need to dig that one out of the shed in exchange for something else or make it the one I watch down there. I pull the power on the RCA I watch in the shed and it defaults to channel 2.
I was so tight back in the day I used rubber bands for the belts. Worked great on VCR's but just don't fast forward or let it rewind, had one to work several years that way.
They must've been better rubber bands than the crap ones I see nowadays. Most seem to either go gooey within a year or two, or so brittle they disintegrate into dust.
Well tried it a couple of days ago on my tape deck from the 80's ... Boiled it and left it in the water for 15 minutes. Still not ok. Went on ebay and I see 'companies' asking like 20 euro for a single flat belt. I see loads of packages with different sizes of square belts but non for flat belts which amazes me.
The boiling trick actually works. Got an NV-7500 VCR with still its original belts and wouldn't complete the loading cycle. Boiled the belts and voila...
Of course it works. Been doing this for over 30 years. This is a trick that nobody in the repair industry would let out of the bag, because we made an absolute killing boiling, I mean changing belts. Now, when a replacement was available, or the belt had changed to goo of course it needed changing, but over 50% were recovered this way and very few ever came back.
Great video. I have an old Sears LXI dual cassette bookshelf system which I can't toss out that has similar issues with both decks. It's been sitting idle for years. The motors turn but seems low on torque. The buttons have a lot of travel and playback seems to slow as the play button gets closer to locking into position. Perhaps the belt trick will help in this case, going to tear into it and see.
I was shaking my head and the customer couldn't believe how slow these guys were. Good thing they are not paid by the hour. Contractors get paid by the job. I on the other hand am hourly and I had to stand around making big bucks while these jokers fornicate the pooch. Hey I pulled 1.5 hours overtime because the time they delayed me, delayed me getting to my next job which put me into premium pay. Netted me an extra 100 bucks for the day.
When the young lad working for the contractors to my ISP arrived to put the fibre up to my house & attach an ONT, they wanted to hang the stuff along the boundary fence in loops. I refused that shabby kind of install and told them try running a fish line threw the conduit out to the plate in the street that already contained ONLY the copper phone line. Oh that never works the guy said. "Try" i forcibly told him. He went to his van and in the utter mess inside found the drum of the pull-through. I watched him make a totally half-assed attempt to push it into the conduit on the opened attachment box on the side my basement wall. He hardly pushed and said; "nope it's all blocked". ... My reply; "give it to me i'll show you how you use this thing and got down on my 60yr old knees). Instantly with a couple of jiggles it was in & feeding. He went out to the plate in the street, opened it and almost instantly there appeared the end of the fish i was feeding in. He still wasn't happy because it meant he now had to couple the fibre across from another plate to mine and then said there was no place to mount the ONT on my basement wall (which i instantly sorted by firing up the dropsaw and making a simple mount frame from some scrap wood & screwed it into the perfect place)... Note this wasn't the USA or Canada... this happened in Auckland, New Zealand! (so i guess the process/workmanship is the same kind of rubbish the world over).
Here our fiber is all run in for us by the contractor. If I get there and there is no fiber at the side of the house, I send a form off to the contractor and they come back and put it in, and if there is no conduit like there isn't in many old direct bury negighbourhoods, they bring a ditch which and using a hydro boring machine pull in a new conduit right under the concrete driveway.
@@12voltvids the main ISPs soon found thrusting too expensive. About the best you can hope for is the hang it on the fence deal or they'll poke the fibre into a small trench a few inches deep next the edge of your concrete driveway.... that's unless you stay home on the day and INSTRUCT the guys doing the work. My neighbour just managed to put his lawnmower through his 1yr old fibre that had sprung up above ground because of such a dry summer and soil shrinkage. Here in NZ the big Telecommunications Corporates that provide the Internet just hate spending any money to properly connect their customers!
@@peteb2 Not good. Company I work for has spent about 5 billion so far on the fiber build. But then again we pay for it. We have super fast internet and cell coverage but we pay for that level of service.
Forbidden or not...I'm so glad you shared "the secret " however ones I FINALLY opened my tape recorder I found out the belt was broken so yes...I order and now .....wait!!!!!
Hey good man, I have the same old radio cassette player but it was very damage, I've tryed to fix it but still doesn't sound, if you have time I'd like to asking you, what I have to do for find the place were is the problem, have a good day
My mother's turntable does a similar thing: pressing the 33/45 switch causes the turntable to move about 1 inch, but that is the only movement I can get from it. Could this also be a leaf switch problem?
What does it cost for deoxit 100 across there? I can get 25ml in the pin dispenser like you used in the video for £25 ($43 Canadian). This sounds expensive but I don't know the original price! I have a very small tube I bought recently and it was ridiculously expensive! It is great stuff but at a cost, for me at least!
Very true, I totally agree. I had a can last about 6 years and it does everything as you say. I just am a cheapskate and found the 3-1 oil works okay but isn't as instant of results like Deoxit , and it doesn't cause the carbon pads or tracks to break down or disintegrate and if it did occur the pot was so wore out that either was no carbon left on the pad or the pad was already falling apart so not much can be done in such cases, aye. Enjoy your vids!!
Hi i have a philips d8614 boombox from the early 80s,sounds great i love it. My problem is the left channel on the aux in . Hardly any volume on the left channel unless i press down on the rca input and then it sounds good untill i let go and it goes back to running off the right speaker. Its not the aux cables as i tried several different ones . Any ideas what it could be . Any help would be hugely appreciated . Thank you
I think you answered your own question. If it works when you apply pressure to the connector that is mounted to the circuit board you are flexing it. Broken connection or crack on the board
Been using red Deoxit on the fleet of broadcast TV News Cameras at my work. Magnesium-Alloy body begins to corrode really bad in places like outside covers to main body in the trench where there's a dissimilar 1/8" diameter metal braid RF coupler gasket and water (rain) has got in. I paint the stuff over the entire corrosion and it soon disappears. Then i give it a good drench of gold coloured Deoxit & button the unit up. Next time i see the particular camera the corrosion is non-existent....
A new belt would set you back $0.25 and last 10+ years instead of your boiled belt that might fail in 6 months, you probably spent more than that in the deoxit your used in this video.
I had an almost identical unit to this, branded "Alba" (which were a low-end brand in the UK, formerly a British manufacturer which went under in the late 1970s and was then used as a brand for generic far-Eastern electronics, now owned by the Argos chain in the UK). Which means one of two things: either Sanyo were selling OEM to other companies, or (more likely) Sanyo were tarting their name out as early as around 1992 (when this will have been made) to low-end Chinese tat-merchants. Tape mechanism looks to be a very cheap Chinese Tanashin-clone. I don't remember the wow and flutter being as bad as that, so this is still pretty worn out. Still, it was only ever a £/$20 unit in the first place so not surprising.
Yeah its the second one for sure. Sanyo will have just slapped their name on it. I hate it when high quality brands like Sanyo cheapen themselves this way. Names that used to mean something are now often just rebadged crap. It is a short term strategy to plunder your own brand value that took decades to build.
Yeah Argos seem to have bought licenses to use a number of brand names of once respected companies like Alba and Bush. As for major high quality brands cheapening themselves that's certainly true. Today it hardly matters which brand of small TV you buy for example, if it's around 42 inches or smaller it's likely it's made by Vestel regardless of whether it's from a big brand name or a supermarket own brand.
@@khaddow1967 Yup, they've done it with Alba/Bush/Murphy, then with Pye, then Ferguson and Grundig and more recently with JVC, Sanyo themselves, and even Philips, Sharp and Hitachi. With the later ones, the companies themselves are still going and it has an impact on their businesses elsewhere, surely? Can't be a good business move long term.
@@khaddow1967 I heard about Vestel, yep. Make something like a half the world's TVs. At one point (when I had money) I was looking at Baby Grand Pianos for my partner. Now, if you want a Baby Grand us mortals can afford it needs to be Chinese. Turns out a lot of the Chinese brands are using long dead German piano companies, giving them a whiff of respectability. I hate that approach, it smacks of deceit. I was more impressed by the Chinese companies that were striking out under their *own* Chinese name and trying to build a reputation. And some of them made quite good stuff. Similarly I found Sangean in China make rather nice radios by the standards of today, and they are often rebadged as Roberts and Grundig, but they are happy to sell on their own brand name and have a pretty slick website with all their products proudly displayed. Whereas with a lot of the rebadged stuff, the oem mfr probably changes from product to product and year to year, and they have no intention of backing their products. they're just the lowest bidder. :(
@@jasejj Definitely not a good move long term, the US companies(RCA, Zenith, Admiral, etc.) did it years ago with the Japanese names you mentioned as the manufacturers, now those US companies are gone and the Japanese are being hollowed out by the Chinese and Korean companies.
I have CMW-5. It has a CD player and cassette player on top. Haven't taken it apart yet (all others had slipping belts). The only one I haven't. It works, so why mess with it? I am fascinated by watching you repair yours though. :) P.S. I want to get some de-oxit when I can. I know old cassette players had a flywheel connected to the capstan. I have a few.
Hi, I have a Hytera DMR radio I got given from work, model number is PD665. Nice looking bit of kit, I'm wanting help knowing how to program it as it would come in handy with my metal detecting hobby. Plus would look better than my Baofeng GT-3TP. Thanks
Angel Grant, boil, (bring some water on the stove in a pot to a boiling point and boil add the belts you want to fix up and let them boil for 10 minutes, that is what he did and it worked for him.
@@ricknelsonm I wouldn't do it on the stove. The bottom of the pot will be very hot. Use microwave oven. Full power 10 minutes put belt in mug full of water and let RIP.
@@12voltvids Dave, is that 10 minutes in the microwave in 'on' position with the belt in the water, ... or boil the water, take it out and then put the belt in for 10 minutes?
@@Luke-san Cup of cold water, belts into cold water, nuke for 10-15 minutes (depending on microwave power, you don't want to boil it dry) Remove belt from hot water, let cool and dry.
@@12voltvids awesome Dave. Well ordered new belts for the tape deck anyway, seems like 1 belt has the flat tire syndrome. It won't go back in a normal round shape again.
Put belt in cup filled with water and stick in microwave for 10 minutes. The heat rearranges the molecules in the rubber and elasticity returns. Won't work on all belts. Depends on if they are natural or synthetic rubber.
Hi Dave. im having trouble looking for a free service manual. they are all paid ones. what is the best site to use. I can never find info for anything. its getting frustrating.
Yes finding manuals can be a challenge. Some times I spend more time locating the manual. When I fixed a hammond b3000 organ I made the owner buy the manual. I wish I had filmed that one but I serviced it on site. Made good money on that repair. Besides getting paid was given 4 reel to reel, a couple of turn tables.
@@12voltvids ok. that's good you have the same issue. I picked up a Sony projection tv that someone was throwing, it doesn't turn on. my only option is to buy a service manual so what site do you use of you have to go that route. thanks for replying.
i have a old sony that i keep around cause it is battery powered good for emergency's. tape player and the cd player don't work who cares as long as the radio works.
Guess what, sanyo made some of the best ghetto blasters on the planet, but looking at this its really hard to believe init. Use an ordinary lead pencil to resore the potentiometer traces
This mécanisme is semi autostop is eating all tape im play and im replace with a full auto stop with the feature of antirolling tape cassette mecanisme and you a good D J with the music volume lol
The contractors sound like assholes, they sound like Laural&Hardy lol :-D. The D cells Or whatever name they give them now, i'm used to the old names for batterys. The small 9 volt pp3 is called something else now :-(.
It's called auto focus. You know where the camera sets itself. Considering that I can read the numbers on the parts I would suggest that perhaps you should get your eyes checked. Or were you watching it before TH-cam finished processing as the video is pretty soft for the first several minutes.
" I was bored" ;-) thanks for the nostalgic video, my last repair of one of those goes back to 95-96. Happy new year !!
Wife was watching some something on TV that didn't interest me so out to the garage I go.
That is a great trick, boiling the belts. I will have to remember that one. I have never seen a volume control that cheap before. I was amazed. I guess, since it still works, it met the need quite well.
That's not worthless! It's a great size for taking anywhere in the house, particularly the bathroom, but also the kitchen or bedroom, whatever. Fits in a small bag for work or college, even just taking to the park, maybe fishing. Just the right size for many many uses. I could probably get £30 ($40-ish) for it if it were given a good clean.
I'm just getting back into tapes and FM radio and I've got a big ass portable JVC from '92 with twin tape decks that need fixing up, that belt boiling tip may come in useful!
Sometimes, ya just gotta fix something, no matter how cheap it is!
Tell that to my girlfriend,
she doesn’t want to change!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey, for a little beater radio those things are great and get the job done. If it falls off the table and disintegrates your not out a ton of money. Your DJ moves on the volume slider had me laughing....love your vids...
Always have two people to a ladder - one to climb, the other to phone for the ambulance.
Great tip on boiling the belts!
And, yes, definitely worth the repair - if you had bought a new one it would have been stone dead in a year and a day.
At least he wore a hard hat. About 16 years ago I was working for a satellite TV company between my TV repair gig and current job. One job a dumb customer was standing below me watching. I was l yelling at him to get away from the ladder. Unfortunately he doesn't speak English. As I am placing the dish a gust of wind blew the dish out of my hands. (I am hanging onto the roof overhang as this gust came out of nowhere. Dish flew off hit the guy standing watching. At least he broke the fall of the dish and it didn't get damaged. Dam that could have cost me 40 bucks.
Oh my god... The boiling trick works well. I've tried it on my cassette recorder belt and it actually made it round as it should've been. This is why I love your channel, it really helps me. :)
Ha ha ha, yes it works. I learned that trick when I was a young tech still learning the trade. Naturally when a belt was available we would replace it, and if it turned to goo it had to be replaced, but for a good percentage that were just slipping, it works. I have tape decks I did this on 10 years ago and they are still working.
nice little video, still worth repairing. like you said good little radio for outside. good work!
I've had a couple of Panasonic branded units which looked similar to this, but the internals were exactly the same, even the circuit board and the rest of the layout. All of them developed switch problems after a while. They lasted for many years in a steamy greasy kitchen.
11:25 - That volume control is a HOOT! How could it NOT get dirty?
Never seen anything like that
@@12voltvids There's a reason that those stupid slide controls were only used popularly for a few years on mainstream quality electronics like stereos, TVs etc. in the early 1970s. While they look neat, they get full of dust and dirt. Now they're just relegated to little cheap items like this. I have an early '70s Panasonic all in one stereo that I need to clean the controls on, quite scratchy, in some cases you can spray cleaner from the front, but not on double gang controls.
@@richardhz-oi8px
Most slider controls have a felt cover to attempt to keep the dirt out, but they still get noisy.
Thank YOU!!!!
I have a radio CASSETTE RECORDER and it doesn't work but I CAN'T bring myself to get rid off it. Here goes a girl hands on to fix my cassette player!!! The tip to boil the belt? Just genius!!
The boiling belt trick I learned from my first practical electronics teacher at the first TV shop I worked at back in 1979. He did it with slipping turntable belts all the time because there were so many different sizes. Then when I got into the trade I got to talking to other technicians and found out that they all did it, but they all told me to never divulge this to customers. It was a trade secret, like the Kentucky fried chicken recipe. It was an easy way to make money. Would never say "replaced belt" it was always "re-tension" belt, or adjust belt, or any other word other than replace so there could be no consequences if it didn't last. Most worked file. Some formulations of belt didn't work but you found that out pretty quick because it either works or it doesn't. When belts were available you changed it if you had one, but if not the boiling belt trick was charged before ordering it is because ordering a belt usually meant placing a minimum quantity, and then the wait for the parts to come, all the while the customer is phoning every day looking for a status update.
I know one thing. I opened up a mid 80's knob tuned 19 inch Sanyo built Sears TV just for the heck of it one time. I was amazed at how small the chassis is for the time period. I have a good 20 TV's running around. I need to dig that one out of the shed in exchange for something else or make it the one I watch down there. I pull the power on the RCA I watch in the shed and it defaults to channel 2.
Fixed many of those over the years. Had a focus divider block that was a common failure.
I was so tight back in the day I used rubber bands for the belts. Worked great on VCR's but just don't fast forward or let it rewind, had one to work several years that way.
They must've been better rubber bands than the crap ones I see nowadays. Most seem to either go gooey within a year or two, or so brittle they disintegrate into dust.
@@sjm4306 Yes it was many years ago when I bought those, even seemed to have some sort of a powder on them??? Not certain what that was.
Rubber bands will usually RIP the tape off the spool at the end due to the elastic shock. A real belt will slip at the end.
@@12voltvids Oh OK then, that's good to know.
Love your you tube. I think I have seen them all by now. Keep up the good work.
Boiling belts. It does work.
George Thomas works a treat
Well tried it a couple of days ago on my tape deck from the 80's ... Boiled it and left it in the water for 15 minutes. Still not ok. Went on ebay and I see 'companies' asking like 20 euro for a single flat belt. I see loads of packages with different sizes of square belts but non for flat belts which amazes me.
The boiling trick actually works. Got an NV-7500 VCR with still its original belts and wouldn't complete the loading cycle. Boiled the belts and voila...
Of course it works. Been doing this for over 30 years. This is a trick that nobody in the repair industry would let out of the bag, because we made an absolute killing boiling, I mean changing belts. Now, when a replacement was available, or the belt had changed to goo of course it needed changing, but over 50% were recovered this way and very few ever came back.
Great video. I have an old Sears LXI dual cassette bookshelf system which I can't toss out that has similar issues with both decks. It's been sitting idle for years. The motors turn but seems low on torque. The buttons have a lot of travel and playback seems to slow as the play button gets closer to locking into position. Perhaps the belt trick will help in this case, going to tear into it and see.
great story
I was shaking my head and the customer couldn't believe how slow these guys were. Good thing they are not paid by the hour. Contractors get paid by the job. I on the other hand am hourly and I had to stand around making big bucks while these jokers fornicate the pooch. Hey I pulled 1.5 hours overtime because the time they delayed me, delayed me getting to my next job which put me into premium pay. Netted me an extra 100 bucks for the day.
Funny thing is?
if the radio is working, I wouldnt worry
Who has cassettes laying around🤷🏽♂️
Cassettes exactly. Nobody uses tapes these days. Now all the tape heads are frothing at the mouth.
never heard of nuking belts, will have to keep that trick in mind
Happy New Year Dave!
Excellent repair!
How do you do the boil trick exactly?
When the young lad working for the contractors to my ISP arrived to put the fibre up to my house & attach an ONT, they wanted to hang the stuff along the boundary fence in loops. I refused that shabby kind of install and told them try running a fish line threw the conduit out to the plate in the street that already contained ONLY the copper phone line. Oh that never works the guy said. "Try" i forcibly told him. He went to his van and in the utter mess inside found the drum of the pull-through. I watched him make a totally half-assed attempt to push it into the conduit on the opened attachment box on the side my basement wall. He hardly pushed and said; "nope it's all blocked". ... My reply; "give it to me i'll show you how you use this thing and got down on my 60yr old knees). Instantly with a couple of jiggles it was in & feeding. He went out to the plate in the street, opened it and almost instantly there appeared the end of the fish i was feeding in. He still wasn't happy because it meant he now had to couple the fibre across from another plate to mine and then said there was no place to mount the ONT on my basement wall (which i instantly sorted by firing up the dropsaw and making a simple mount frame from some scrap wood & screwed it into the perfect place)... Note this wasn't the USA or Canada... this happened in Auckland, New Zealand! (so i guess the process/workmanship is the same kind of rubbish the world over).
Here our fiber is all run in for us by the contractor. If I get there and there is no fiber at the side of the house, I send a form off to the contractor and they come back and put it in, and if there is no conduit like there isn't in many old direct bury negighbourhoods, they bring a ditch which and using a hydro boring machine pull in a new conduit right under the concrete driveway.
@@12voltvids the main ISPs soon found thrusting too expensive. About the best you can hope for is the hang it on the fence deal or they'll poke the fibre into a small trench a few inches deep next the edge of your concrete driveway.... that's unless you stay home on the day and INSTRUCT the guys doing the work. My neighbour just managed to put his lawnmower through his 1yr old fibre that had sprung up above ground because of such a dry summer and soil shrinkage. Here in NZ the big Telecommunications Corporates that provide the Internet just hate spending any money to properly connect their customers!
@@peteb2
Not good. Company I work for has spent about 5 billion so far on the fiber build. But then again we pay for it. We have super fast internet and cell coverage but we pay for that level of service.
Forbidden or not...I'm so glad you shared "the secret " however ones I FINALLY opened my tape recorder I found out the belt was broken so yes...I order and now .....wait!!!!!
When it is broken or melted then yes you have to order. If just slipping and not melting the hot water treatment will usually return elasticity
Hey good man, I have the same old radio cassette player but it was very damage, I've tryed to fix it but still doesn't sound, if you have time I'd like to asking you, what I have to do for find the place were is the problem, have a good day
I used to have one of those.
My mother's turntable does a similar thing: pressing the 33/45 switch causes the turntable to move about 1 inch, but that is the only movement I can get from it. Could this also be a leaf switch problem?
What does it cost for deoxit 100 across there? I can get 25ml in the pin dispenser like you used in the video for £25 ($43 Canadian). This sounds expensive but I don't know the original price! I have a very small tube I bought recently and it was ridiculously expensive! It is great stuff but at a cost, for me at least!
Sure this is worth it! If you use it, it’s worth it. If someone else could use it, it’s worth it.
Great Vid and Info!
Deoxit is great, but $$$ so I just use 3-in-1 oil and it works a treat too.
Deoxit is expensive but a little bottle will last for many years. Look how full mine is. Had it now for over 2 years.
Very true, I totally agree. I had a can last about 6 years and it does everything as you say. I just am a cheapskate and found the 3-1 oil works okay but isn't as instant of results like Deoxit , and it doesn't cause the carbon pads or tracks to break down or disintegrate and if it did occur the pot was so wore out that either was no carbon left on the pad or the pad was already falling apart so not much can be done in such cases, aye. Enjoy your vids!!
I use a two-step process. CRC contact cleaner to wash the gunk out. Comparatively speaking, this is the cheap stuff. Then use just a little DeOxit.
Hi i have a philips d8614 boombox from the early 80s,sounds great i love it.
My problem is the left channel on the aux in . Hardly any volume on the left channel unless i press down on the rca input and then it sounds good untill i let go and it goes back to running off the right speaker.
Its not the aux cables as i tried several different ones .
Any ideas what it could be . Any help would be hugely appreciated .
Thank you
I think you answered your own question. If it works when you apply pressure to the connector that is mounted to the circuit board you are flexing it. Broken connection or crack on the board
@@12voltvids thanks bro so it must be where the connector attaches to the board or nearby . Cheers for the reply,much appreciated
Been using red Deoxit on the fleet of broadcast TV News Cameras at my work. Magnesium-Alloy body begins to corrode really bad in places like outside covers to main body in the trench where there's a dissimilar 1/8" diameter metal braid RF coupler gasket and water (rain) has got in. I paint the stuff over the entire corrosion and it soon disappears. Then i give it a good drench of gold coloured Deoxit & button the unit up. Next time i see the particular camera the corrosion is non-existent....
You learn something new everyday. Great video. Any tips on how to fix the am is not working on my sanyo mini boombox.
Boiling the belts rarely works if they've been sitting in the same position for 5-10 years and are all shaped like that.
This has been sitting in a closet since 2010 and you just saw the results.
A new belt would set you back $0.25 and last 10+ years instead of your boiled belt that might fail in 6 months, you probably spent more than that in the deoxit your used in this video.
I had an almost identical unit to this, branded "Alba" (which were a low-end brand in the UK, formerly a British manufacturer which went under in the late 1970s and was then used as a brand for generic far-Eastern electronics, now owned by the Argos chain in the UK).
Which means one of two things: either Sanyo were selling OEM to other companies, or (more likely) Sanyo were tarting their name out as early as around 1992 (when this will have been made) to low-end Chinese tat-merchants.
Tape mechanism looks to be a very cheap Chinese Tanashin-clone. I don't remember the wow and flutter being as bad as that, so this is still pretty worn out. Still, it was only ever a £/$20 unit in the first place so not surprising.
Yeah its the second one for sure. Sanyo will have just slapped their name on it. I hate it when high quality brands like Sanyo cheapen themselves this way. Names that used to mean something are now often just rebadged crap. It is a short term strategy to plunder your own brand value that took decades to build.
Yeah Argos seem to have bought licenses to use a number of brand names of once respected companies like Alba and Bush. As for major high quality brands cheapening themselves that's certainly true. Today it hardly matters which brand of small TV you buy for example, if it's around 42 inches or smaller it's likely it's made by Vestel regardless of whether it's from a big brand name or a supermarket own brand.
@@khaddow1967 Yup, they've done it with Alba/Bush/Murphy, then with Pye, then Ferguson and Grundig and more recently with JVC, Sanyo themselves, and even Philips, Sharp and Hitachi. With the later ones, the companies themselves are still going and it has an impact on their businesses elsewhere, surely? Can't be a good business move long term.
@@khaddow1967 I heard about Vestel, yep. Make something like a half the world's TVs. At one point (when I had money) I was looking at Baby Grand Pianos for my partner. Now, if you want a Baby Grand us mortals can afford it needs to be Chinese. Turns out a lot of the Chinese brands are using long dead German piano companies, giving them a whiff of respectability. I hate that approach, it smacks of deceit. I was more impressed by the Chinese companies that were striking out under their *own* Chinese name and trying to build a reputation. And some of them made quite good stuff. Similarly I found Sangean in China make rather nice radios by the standards of today, and they are often rebadged as Roberts and Grundig, but they are happy to sell on their own brand name and have a pretty slick website with all their products proudly displayed. Whereas with a lot of the rebadged stuff, the oem mfr probably changes from product to product and year to year, and they have no intention of backing their products. they're just the lowest bidder. :(
@@jasejj Definitely not a good move long term, the US companies(RCA, Zenith, Admiral, etc.) did it years ago with the Japanese names you mentioned as the manufacturers, now those US companies are gone and the Japanese are being hollowed out by the Chinese and Korean companies.
12:00 DJ Dave 😁
Great video as always
I have CMW-5. It has a CD player and cassette player on top. Haven't taken it apart yet (all others had slipping belts). The only one I haven't. It works, so why mess with it? I am fascinated by watching you repair yours though. :)
P.S. I want to get some de-oxit when I can.
I know old cassette players had a flywheel connected to the capstan. I have a few.
I own a Sony 3 head tape deck you can adjust pitch why tape decks were not all direct drive
Love your cat lol.
Hi, I have a Hytera DMR radio I got given from work, model number is PD665. Nice looking bit of kit, I'm wanting help knowing how to program it as it would come in handy with my metal detecting hobby. Plus would look better than my Baofeng GT-3TP. Thanks
Contact your local dmr club. These things are quite complicated to set up.
@@12voltvids thank you, I will try them.
How long do you boil them on what temperature?
Angel Grant, boil, (bring some water on the stove in a pot to a boiling point and boil add the belts you want to fix up and let them boil for 10 minutes, that is what he did and it worked for him.
@@ricknelsonm
I wouldn't do it on the stove. The bottom of the pot will be very hot. Use microwave oven. Full power 10 minutes put belt in mug full of water and let RIP.
@@12voltvids Dave, is that 10 minutes in the microwave in 'on' position with the belt in the water, ... or boil the water, take it out and then put the belt in for 10 minutes?
@@Luke-san
Cup of cold water, belts into cold water, nuke for 10-15 minutes (depending on microwave power, you don't want to boil it dry) Remove belt from hot water, let cool and dry.
@@12voltvids awesome Dave. Well ordered new belts for the tape deck anyway, seems like 1 belt has the flat tire syndrome. It won't go back in a normal round shape again.
Please explin the boiling belt trick. How to do that? It is amazing.
Put belt in cup filled with water and stick in microwave for 10 minutes. The heat rearranges the molecules in the rubber and elasticity returns. Won't work on all belts. Depends on if they are natural or synthetic rubber.
@@12voltvids Thank you very much
18:10 - I've had VERY good luck using Ivory soap and warm water.
How long and what setting for belts?
Hi Dave. im having trouble looking for a free service manual. they are all paid ones. what is the best site to use. I can never find info for anything. its getting frustrating.
Yes finding manuals can be a challenge. Some times I spend more time locating the manual. When I fixed a hammond b3000 organ I made the owner buy the manual. I wish I had filmed that one but I serviced it on site. Made good money on that repair. Besides getting paid was given 4 reel to reel, a couple of turn tables.
@@12voltvids ok. that's good you have the same issue. I picked up a Sony projection tv that someone was throwing, it doesn't turn on. my only option is to buy a service manual so what site do you use of you have to go that route. thanks for replying.
Gas mark 3 for how long?
Nice 👍
Sanyo are a high end brand but sadly they badge engineer crap like this, because no one was bothering to make nice radios by then.
How long will a boiled belt last?
I have some equipment I did this on 10 years ago still working. How is that.
Their names wernt 'Laurell and Hardy' by any chance?
I was thinking the 3 stooges myself.
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@@erikj.2066
LOL that one and the one with the 2 of them trying to cross a street with a ladder.
i have a old sony that i keep around cause it is battery powered good for emergency's. tape player and the cd player don't work who cares as long as the radio works.
Guess what, sanyo made some of the best ghetto blasters on the planet, but looking at this its really hard to believe init. Use an ordinary lead pencil to resore the potentiometer traces
This mécanisme is semi autostop is eating all tape im play and im replace with a full auto stop with the feature of antirolling tape cassette mecanisme and you a good D J with the music volume lol
any one have any Idea how to remove that Capstan flywheel ?
You make ik seem soooo easy,
The contractors sound like assholes, they sound like Laural&Hardy lol :-D.
The D cells Or whatever name they give them now, i'm used to the old names for batterys.
The small 9 volt pp3 is called something else now :-(.
I wish you were closer I have a samsung plasma smart tv with no pic but It must weigh a 100 pounds
That is caused by a dirty leaf switch
Sir please help sanyo M1750k
This china I was rapairing since 1999
Sanyo made in China 👍👍👍
can you improve the focus on next video please
It's called auto focus. You know where the camera sets itself. Considering that I can read the numbers on the parts I would suggest that perhaps you should get your eyes checked. Or were you watching it before TH-cam finished processing as the video is pretty soft for the first several minutes.
Typical , Radio Works OK But Cassette , CD Don't !
This not original Sanyo a duplicate sanyo.
crap machine