The Personal Stereos - Part 5: Sony WM-EX610 repair
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2017
- Returning from the Play Expo, I found my beautiful Sony WM-EX610 walkman not working right. One of the right Stereo channel just wasnt working, however flipping the cassette autoreverse to side B was working perfectly. The issue pointing to a severed/broken connection between the circuit board and the playhead. So I attempted to repair it and show the details of what I did.
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It's great that I found this channel where the old electronics are appreciated. Your videos are interesting and at the same time relaxing and your laughter makes me feel good. Old c-cassettes and vinyl records also playing here.
Your voice and accent are just as amazing as your technical expertise! I have learned a few things watching your repair videos! I love your laugh as well, awesome lady!
Thanks Scot! :o)
Gorgeous walkman! Its so hard to find these later EX models in America but I'm really keeping my eye out!
Bonjour...mad lemon ....étant nouveau membre de ta communauté....je voulais te dire que tes vidéos...sont magnifiquement bien construite et je me lasse pas de les regarder...change rien ...ton humour aussi ....bravo à toi et hâte d'en découvrir d'autres 😘
That's one super tricky fix! Flex cable repair always makes me extremely nervous!
Great to see that you saved a lovely little walkman like that!
I freakin hate flex ribbon cables, and because of that I thought I may not be able to fix this. i'm glad it just worked out smoother than I thought it would lol .
Thanks! :o)
Great to see this one come back to life again. You're a technical whizz with this stuff.
Absolutely outstanding job as usual! I hope you inspire more women to get into electronics.
Also, I love that you are not square...it's what makes you so unique! Keep calling them Walkman just to annoy the OCD people. ;)
I'm watching you as I restore a classic Technics Sl-1950 turntable. You inspire me.
I would screw it up for sure while soldering that small connections :o
Good job! Really nice that you repaired it. :-)
It's nice to see her repairing that Walkman, I bought the same model from a friend but when I took it apart I found q. the girdle or leash as we give it in Peru 🇵🇪 they are hungover and I am worried that. Some particle has gotten into the mechanisms, another problem is q. I can't disassemble the circuit to see the mechanical part.
Oh i hate those flat cables so much. I accidentally ripped one in my sony wm-7. I tried using this method too. Nothing worked for me. Glad you got yours running again
I had a Toshiba kt-4058.AM-FM Auto reverse, recording, equalizer...i loved it.
The lifetime of so many devices is very short nowadays especially since the advent of non replaceable batteries. What I really admire about looking at some of these devices from the past is that because you value them I look at the more closely. This makes me realise how especially a company like Sony produced some amazing equipment I now deeply regret giving away my mini disc player.
Devices nowadays feel as if they've intentionally got a short lifespan, we're living in a disposable era pretty much where consumerism is the focus. But, I dont believe it was that much the case back with all these devices of the past. I have some things from the 70s and 80s which are still going strong now. As you said they made some pretty amazing equipment.
If you're thinking of getting a Minidisc recorder + discs, now is the time, they're not so expensive, but eventually will be as prices rise. I'll say this, I still use mine and they are fun to use :o)
I love how much you laugh during your videos. You are a riot. ; )
Good job on the repair. Thanks for all the great videos !
Thank you!
Another success (thumbs up). The clamshell design is very reminiscent of minidisc recorders from that time, from the loading and eject mechanism, to the clicky sounds, the curves and the metallic body. It's very sleek and posh looking. One thing with your particular one, not sure if you can tell, but I think the motor had a slight instability in speed. Sometimes the tape sounds fine, but sometimes it ran just a tad slow, so the key was a bit flat ever slightly. I think it's the motor or a power fluctuation because even with no sound on tape, the pitch of the motor "whining" gets slightly lower then back to normal. I wonder if it's the battery or what. Doesn't seem to be the belt. Edit: it sounded like when you connected it to the camera the first time, it made a motor whining sound for a split second. Maybe since camera mic inputs use "plug-in power" that it somehow gave the motor a jolt, and could have also somehow caused the speed to fluctuate slightly? Weird, but I wonder. Maybe I'm expecting too much from a "portable stereo" :)
Thanks! Yes the design does remind me a lot of the Minidisc recorders/player, esp the one I have, very sleek design!
Yes I know what you mean about the motor, i've heard that slow dip then speed up with a few personal stereos, It may be the case that the battery isnt fully charged, I still havent charged it since the expo. I need to test that with fully charged Eneloop pro in there too. But that dip motor sound isnt alien to me :o)
You are Great! A technical Genius!!
Nice work!!!
Good job. Nice when the fix is quick and tidy :)
Normally it's always two or three more things I discover wrong leading to an entire series but this was short and sweet for a change, thanks! :o)
Great video! Love it
Well done may have to do the same to my ex-674 immaculate it is in blue also has gone a bit distorted and favours the right channel more than the left but when player flips to the other side it's fine .
Very enjoyable video! It was so relaxing to watch, because I knew it was extremely likely you succeeded. And you did. And now my chicken is done in the oven. Thanks for entertaining me while I waited. ^_^
Thank you! Hahah i'm glad I filled in that waiting space where time feels twice as slow, and that all we have to do is twiddle our thumbs lol Enjoy your meal, buen provecho ;o)
Mange tak, frøken. ;)
Thank you!!
Well done on the fix lem that's brilliant glad you got it working :) . I know for a fact i would have made a right mess of it if i tryed to fix one hahaha.
Thank you! I guess if you loved it as much as I do this walkman, maybe you'd succeed. I kinda go crazy and throw myself into these things hahah
Hahaha :)
Thank you 🎵
I have a 1986 Sanyo
M GR62 I'm passionate about too.
Superb work i am in the middle of fixing a sharp minidisc recorder ,a plastic cog on a metal shaft that moves the laser is in need of some glue as it just spins and laser will not move so far so good ribbon connectors removed and battery terminals de soldered to get the main circuit board out a charity shop item my dad got for £1 and gave to me hoping i am sucsessful as it sounds better than my sony .
Great job! Those pesky flex ribbons!!! I fixed a few Psion 3's the same way many years ago. The problem comes from physical movement causing fatigue fracture =\
Thanks!..Flex ribbons, that's what they're called! lol i know they serve their purpose but i've never liked them.
You aren't alone lol, I don't like them either! The problem is that they are destined to fail - I guess everything is ultimately - entropy etc, but the fact they are used in mechnical parts where it needs to flex due to movement between say the front and back of the case, the angle of movement and the quality of the ribbon ultimately factor in how long before they break.
The Psion 3's are notorious for the problem because of the angle they flex at (like 105 degrees or something). I would guess on a walkman (yes I call all personal stereos that too lol) the angle is much less - just enough to get tape in and out, but it does show that even with a shorter angle of movement they still fail at some point!
BTW - Something else I forgot to mention... What typically happens is at the point where its most stressed the flex ribbon actually splits. If you examine the whole ribbon you would probably find the break. It's often worth putting some insulation tape around that part of the ribbon, it can help support the fracture from breaking further. This is something else I did when fixing Psion 3's many years ago, and where I didn't, the split widened breaking more connections later.
I don’t like them even more now lol
you know what the funny thing is about the walkman part? there are no freakin moving parts in this one, the head is fixed to that position, it’s the cassette that goes over the head when inserted and that’s it, so i’m not sure how the freak it goofed up! lol ..
okay thinking about it now, maybe only very slightly when you open the lid (the head is fixed to the lid) but not a great deal.
Thanks for the advise though regarding these!
Psion 5 also has registration holes in the flat flex cable that "help" it to break. Sometimes it's not the worst idea to simply copy the design into a PCB CAD and have a PCB house make some fresh flat flex cables for you, and you can fix their misguided attempts at saving some material in the process. They'll usually have an MOQ on the flat flex though, so... you get to sell 49 pieces or so. Also worth looking around whether somebody already did that and is selling replacements - sometimes it's not on ebay though but on sites that look approximately like this: www.pulster.eu/d__kaffee5__Psion_Cappucino_machine___coffein_shots_whenever_you_need_it694.htm
As to how this broke... well slight movement can do that too eventually, but if it's really all fixed, maybe it simply cracked at the solder joint at one of the ends simply from vibration and temperature cycling, and reheating it would reseat it...
I'd have an urge to run such bodges with transformer enamel wire... assuming it's not gonna rub through and contact something else, would this be good enough? Given there isn't much or any movement there... they are so similarly coloured and they are thin and easy to fit anywhere.
I have the same issue !!!
I have a WM-701C where 6 of the 7 lines of the ribbon cable between the mainboard and the controls are dead, so I have the unfortunate prospect of running 6-7 wires the same way
Great work, sometimes the solder could be a dry joint meaning you just need to flux it, clean and re-solder. Just wondering is ESD an issue when repairing these, especially the IC components, if I get one might be worth having a ground strap just in case.
You're the best! Or you are extremely lucky :-))))
Thanks so much for this video! I have this same player and want to remove the lid part that you've removed here in order to adjust the speed, but I can't seem to detach the lid from the remote/headphone input. Do you have any advice?
If you pry off the lid from the battery slot side first that will create enough space to maneuver the headphone side off.
Hello, I have a Sony WM-EX521 and it was dropped and now it is missing one of its spindles. Do you know where I might be able to find a spare spindle and how would I go about fitting it onto the walkman?
How to take apart the engine area cover? I'm stuck here now...
Can u make a tutorial how to replace a pinch roller on high-end walkman?
Where can I get charger from as mine doesn’t work?
So you are jumping the ribbon cable?
Mine will only play solid colored tapes. Does anybody have any idea why? I can't find answers anywhere
Well hell i need my wm-fx70 to work
Like 100!!💓
Hey where is "The Personal Stereos - Part 6" !?!??! :D
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I have 260 grams of macaroni.
it does not work and it does not bother. And it starts with listening and the midler is not a problem. I can not get enough to try it and get a dull sound.
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