Great tear down video, thank you for sharing. You've gone further into the disassembly than I needed to do for the repair of my CD-330, but your video will be useful to me in future should I have to go further with it at any point. I need to point out something you've missed though and the reason why the play mech appears to be jammed. There is a lever mechanism that detects if the tape cover is closed or not. With this removed, it's necessary for you to manually move it otherwise the buttons are 'jammed' in their positions. I wish I could send you a marked up screen shot in the comments, but if I refer you to 24:47 and if you look diagonally up and left from the erase head there is a pivoting lever. Move this up before pressing play. It's located above the red & white wires.
Thanks for pointing this out, I probably won't work on this again - I'm more into multitrack stuff - but hopefully others will benefit from what you're saying about the play function.
@@Tetrakan That's totally understandable - it must have been really demoralising spending so much time for it to be lifeless :( I'm hoping to get hold of a multi-track tape recorder at some point - just hoping I can find one at a decent price!
Thank you for the offer, on its way back to its owner in the EU, presumably to be sold on as a parts donor, or refurbishment project for someone with more passion for the unit than I had?
Great tear down video, thank you for sharing. You've gone further into the disassembly than I needed to do for the repair of my CD-330, but your video will be useful to me in future should I have to go further with it at any point.
I need to point out something you've missed though and the reason why the play mech appears to be jammed. There is a lever mechanism that detects if the tape cover is closed or not. With this removed, it's necessary for you to manually move it otherwise the buttons are 'jammed' in their positions. I wish I could send you a marked up screen shot in the comments, but if I refer you to 24:47 and if you look diagonally up and left from the erase head there is a pivoting lever. Move this up before pressing play. It's located above the red & white wires.
Thanks for pointing this out, I probably won't work on this again - I'm more into multitrack stuff - but hopefully others will benefit from what you're saying about the play function.
@@Tetrakan That's totally understandable - it must have been really demoralising spending so much time for it to be lifeless :(
I'm hoping to get hold of a multi-track tape recorder at some point - just hoping I can find one at a decent price!
Hope you’re doing well. Thanks for the video.
it's a real wiring dogs dinner inside! Argggh!🥺
This was clearly designed by a team that hated repair technicians...and built during the infamous JST Drought of the 80's.
This comment makes me wish I had more knuckles so I could get "infamous JST drought" tattooed across them
Broke open mine a while back and it's still open...if you need any parts please do shout, happy to fling 'em over
Thank you for the offer, on its way back to its owner in the EU, presumably to be sold on as a parts donor, or refurbishment project for someone with more passion for the unit than I had?
Just got a Sanyo M4430 going - 16 desolder points to get to the belt!
Yikes@ Maybe I'm just spoiled with portastudios etc?