Amazing work! I took my old aiwa with autorverse out of storage and fixed it. I spent so much time cleaning out the melted belts. Then it took multiple attempts to clean and gently lubricate the autorverse mechanism. I was cringing so hard when you just slapped it back together. But it worked out. I'm very impressed!
Thanks for a great video, just used it to revive a similar unit that hasn't been used for over 20 years. A mention also to Matt at DeckTech who was very helpful in providing a full set of new belts - recommended. End result sounds a lot better than I was expecting, perhaps better than I remember. Now I can digitise that stack of old tapes.
Nice one. Bought myself an Aiwa ADF410 last week from ebay and repaired over the Christmas break. I'm sure I saw the listing for that very machine so brilliant to see your effort!
Superb work this deck sounds great better than the ad f450 i have .I have recently done my aiwa ad w x828 twin deck i bought new many years ago, it was an absolute pain, i knew the solenoid's had to be unsoldered and this was easy. The duratool desolder station from cpc makes it quick and easy .You have to seat a leaf spring switch on the motor board correctly . oddly the 2 cam positions for deck functions are not in the service manual i went round in circles trying to figure it out before looking at a Russian guys video on the ad w x929 and he pointed and showed how to do it i took a screen shot on the phone and then it was good i now knew how to set the deck and upon testing it was mostly good but wrong functions every now and then on the front panel buttons .i bought a spare parts deck and swapped button boards over and all is fine the spare parts deck was quite handy for working things out at some point i will sort it out as i now know how to do theses decks with no problems .my deck was stored in a loft most likely why it needs the button switches replacing .All i need to do now is the idler tyre and pinch rollers on my 3 head aiwa .
I find with these you don't need to remove the PCB and desolder it. You can click it up slightly with just enough room to fit the belt in place around the black wheel then click it back down. I fixed my memorex auto reverse deck which is just a rebadged aiwa this way. They sound really good for what they are. I made a few mix tapes for my friend and she says they sound like a CD in her car! :) Good stuff.
I've just watched a future video where you repair a 450 variant of this. It would be interesting to hear and see if there was a difference between the two. As there's a separate drive motor for the flywheel; if the heads are different and or electronics.
That Deck looked a bit of a Nightmare to be honest, I was thinking “Elastic Band” when you removed the Orange/Red Belt to be honest! 😂 Oh yeah & who doesn’t love a bit of Chas’n’Dave! “Why don’t you give it a rest, Rabbit, Rabbit” You know how it goes! 🙂
23:41 PCB-E is the board (PCB). You can see the hole where the clip was melted in and it looks likes it comes off with the solenoids. 50:14 I found metal screwdrivers can mess with the speed adjustment pot when removing them as they also conduct. I was able to find some ceramic ones online for that. But their shafts are too short for azimuth adjustment. Good job cleaning up that other person's mess!
I had an AD-F450, which came out a couple of years after this. Essentially the same deck, but the 450 didn't have tape calibration. Not bad decks when they are working properly. I think I only paid about £80 for it new, from Richer Sounds back in the day.
Amazing video. My dad bought this deck new back in the day and now we are trying to change the belts. Only problem there is, we have neither experience nor equipment for unsoldering/soldering so is it really possible to avoid that? We have opened it, cleaned of the old belt remains and etc but now that's the problem. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot 🔝👏🏻
If you're just looking to get a new belt on it, I believe from memory you can fit one without soldering. But not entirely sure this was a while back now! Buy a small crochet hook to help you thread it through small gaps but be very patient. Are you in the UK?
@@pwrestoration Thanks for the quick reply, highly appreciated. I'm in Greece. I've ordered the same wide belt you used in this video. For the other belt I have to pass inside though do you have any suggestion on approximate size? I have some spare belts from China should I try and see what fits best? Unfortunately the old belts completely disintegrated so I can't compare them. Thanks again.
Hello from a french guy from Lyon. It takes me 5/10 minutes to get accustomed to your accent but after that I was tuned ... As a former scouser when I was student it helps... Are you a Northener ? By the way, I really like your didactic tone and the way you describe your work. Wish you the best for 2023 mate.
I was just about to subscribe then you went all Chas 'n' Dave on me! Just kidding. Great video. That's a lot of effort to change the belts. My AF-F410 was hard work, but at least I didn't have to get the soldering iron out. Nice work sorting out someone else's bodge-job. Happy New Year!
Dude, put a regular rubber band over the capstan and the belt to hold it in place. Once the parts are assembled, just cut the rubber band off :-). I've done my Aiwa belt replacements, but this one is a bloody nightmare. Must be the '90's model. In the '80's they did them more friendly to service.
At 40:40 you place the metallic sheet, called p-spring. On my ad f600 I can't set it correctly because the two flaps on the right black peg and the one on the left peg seem to be missing so p-spring is impossible to set. If you place it on one side it moves on the other... Could you please give me any suggestion on how to fix it?
I don't have the deck anymore in afraid but grab the service manual pdf off Google and it'll tell you in it. Be careful though, you can seriously cause issues. It could be a playback level, recording level, or even a meter that's out
Wow very interesting video and you are the master professional engineer question for you on your smart phone which application did you use to check the frequency? Please kindly let me know thanks you
Couldn’t imagine how much wow and flutter that drive belt would have caused with it being mended back together. Every revolution of that belt would have made any tape played in it sound terrible!
❤ hey i bought one of UA-cam and got it all apart and the bands on…but now it clicks and doesn’t play a Kassette….before I put the bands on the motors would at least spin…did I move a plastic piece or something…
@@pwrestoration haha this is probably a futile attempt to repair...anyhow I took it apart and put it back together...now the motor with the small band spinns and stops then starts again..but the motor with the big band doesnt spin.
@@radra1040 could be two issues. 1. Does the larger motor spin with no belt on it 2. If it does, don't disassemble the transport but instead take the large belt off in situ. Try turning the capstan (the large silver wheel on the transport the motor drives) by hand. The transport my be a little stuck between modes. Don't force it and break it, but try and see if it turns freely by hand.
Hi Terry of course, I -think- I did that in my other video for the same deck.. I can't remember! It's one screw on these decks, but if you have poor sound I would leave it alone and change your pinch roller. It's a common fault on these to cause tape skew a little and lose your treble when playing tapes.
I really miss the hi-fi stack systems of the 80s & 90s. They looked awesome and sounded great, miss the boomboxes too.
I have stack system of separates ( Tape deck Aiwa, Sony Amp, Technics Turntable and Marantz CD player ) always get asked about my Retro system !
Wow. You are s good technician who do job with love and patience
Amazing work! I took my old aiwa with autorverse out of storage and fixed it. I spent so much time cleaning out the melted belts. Then it took multiple attempts to clean and gently lubricate the autorverse mechanism. I was cringing so hard when you just slapped it back together. But it worked out. I'm very impressed!
Good work!
I have a AIWA XKS 7000 - It looks similar , I had it serviced a few years ago and I have to say - it sounds So warm and wonderfully analogue
Thanks for a great video, just used it to revive a similar unit that hasn't been used for over 20 years. A mention also to Matt at DeckTech who was very helpful in providing a full set of new belts - recommended. End result sounds a lot better than I was expecting, perhaps better than I remember. Now I can digitise that stack of old tapes.
Nice one. Bought myself an Aiwa ADF410 last week from ebay and repaired over the Christmas break. I'm sure I saw the listing for that very machine so brilliant to see your effort!
Nice one!
Mine was f410 also back when i was a teenage in the 90's. Great budget deck actually but it broke few years ago and never restored again.
Superb work this deck sounds great better than the ad f450 i have .I have recently done my aiwa ad w x828 twin deck i bought new many years ago, it was an absolute pain, i knew the solenoid's had to be unsoldered and this was easy. The duratool desolder station from cpc makes it quick and easy .You have to seat a leaf spring switch on the motor board correctly . oddly the 2 cam positions for deck functions are not in the service manual i went round in circles trying to figure it out before looking at a Russian guys video on the ad w x929 and he pointed and showed how to do it i took a screen shot on the phone and then it was good i now knew how to set the deck and upon testing it was mostly good but wrong functions every now and then on the front panel buttons .i bought a spare parts deck and swapped button boards over and all is fine the spare parts deck was quite handy for working things out at some point i will sort it out as i now know how to do theses decks with no problems .my deck was stored in a loft most likely why it needs the button switches replacing .All i need to do now is the idler tyre and pinch rollers on my 3 head aiwa .
I well remember selling these back in the day aswell as the top of the range Aiwa Excelia XK-009 (equivelent to Sony ES range).
I find with these you don't need to remove the PCB and desolder it. You can click it up slightly with just enough room to fit the belt in place around the black wheel then click it back down. I fixed my memorex auto reverse deck which is just a rebadged aiwa this way. They sound really good for what they are. I made a few mix tapes for my friend and she says they sound like a CD in her car! :) Good stuff.
I've just watched a future video where you repair a 450 variant of this. It would be interesting to hear and see if there was a difference between the two. As there's a separate drive motor for the flywheel; if the heads are different and or electronics.
That Deck looked a bit of a Nightmare to be honest, I was thinking “Elastic Band” when you removed the Orange/Red Belt to be honest! 😂 Oh yeah & who doesn’t love a bit of Chas’n’Dave! “Why don’t you give it a rest, Rabbit, Rabbit” You know how it goes! 🙂
You are missing the tiny ball bearing between that little metallic retaining plate and the mechanisms
Part number 27 on the pdf of the exploded view of the mech. Well spotted. So ,the transport does have to be removed again.
23:41 PCB-E is the board (PCB). You can see the hole where the clip was melted in and it looks likes it comes off with the solenoids. 50:14 I found metal screwdrivers can mess with the speed adjustment pot when removing them as they also conduct. I was able to find some ceramic ones online for that. But their shafts are too short for azimuth adjustment. Good job cleaning up that other person's mess!
Thanks Mike, I did eventually pickup a ceramic one!
I had an AD-F450, which came out a couple of years after this. Essentially the same deck, but the 450 didn't have tape calibration.
Not bad decks when they are working properly. I think I only paid about £80 for it new, from Richer Sounds back in the day.
This was a good one. I think I still have a second I bought for parts and never needed.
Amazing video. My dad bought this deck new back in the day and now we are trying to change the belts. Only problem there is, we have neither experience nor equipment for unsoldering/soldering so is it really possible to avoid that? We have opened it, cleaned of the old belt remains and etc but now that's the problem. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot 🔝👏🏻
If you're just looking to get a new belt on it, I believe from memory you can fit one without soldering. But not entirely sure this was a while back now! Buy a small crochet hook to help you thread it through small gaps but be very patient. Are you in the UK?
@@pwrestoration Thanks for the quick reply, highly appreciated. I'm in Greece. I've ordered the same wide belt you used in this video. For the other belt I have to pass inside though do you have any suggestion on approximate size? I have some spare belts from China should I try and see what fits best? Unfortunately the old belts completely disintegrated so I can't compare them. Thanks again.
Just subscribed great fix really don't make easy to service 👍
Hello from a french guy from Lyon.
It takes me 5/10 minutes to get accustomed to your accent but after that I was tuned ... As a former scouser when I was student it helps... Are you a Northener ?
By the way, I really like your didactic tone and the way you describe your work.
Wish you the best for 2023 mate.
Ha thankyou, it's very strange listening to my own voice. Personally I think I sound awful haha, yes I'm from North Yorkshire.
I was just about to subscribe then you went all Chas 'n' Dave on me! Just kidding.
Great video. That's a lot of effort to change the belts. My AF-F410 was hard work, but at least I didn't have to get the soldering iron out. Nice work sorting out someone else's bodge-job. Happy New Year!
It's the feel good tape of the century! Well, last century. Thanks it means a lot 😎
Dude, put a regular rubber band over the capstan and the belt to hold it in place. Once the parts are assembled, just cut the rubber band off :-). I've done my Aiwa belt replacements, but this one is a bloody nightmare. Must be the '90's model. In the '80's they did them more friendly to service.
At 40:40 you place the metallic sheet, called p-spring.
On my ad f600 I can't set it correctly because the two flaps on the right black peg and the one on the left peg seem to be missing so p-spring is impossible to set.
If you place it on one side it moves on the other...
Could you please give me any suggestion on how to fix it?
See that plate? It pinged off about an hour after filming. Remove and bin!
I'm afraid that without it you will have heads instability and couldn't set azimuth correctly giving you a very bad sound...
There is a small silver ball underneath too...
Can you show in a video how to adjust the rec levels ? I have AD-F410 version and a channel is lower than other
I don't have the deck anymore in afraid but grab the service manual pdf off Google and it'll tell you in it.
Be careful though, you can seriously cause issues. It could be a playback level, recording level, or even a meter that's out
Wow very interesting video and you are the master professional engineer question for you on your smart phone which application did you use to check the frequency? Please kindly let me know thanks you
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Couldn’t imagine how much wow and flutter that drive belt would have caused with it being mended back together. Every revolution of that belt would have made any tape played in it sound terrible!
Yup! Crazy what you find in these things sometimes
❤ hey i bought one of UA-cam and got it all apart and the bands on…but now it clicks and doesn’t play a Kassette….before I put the bands on the motors would at least spin…did I move a plastic piece or something…
I can't tell what you did or didn't move I'm afraid!
@@pwrestoration haha this is probably a futile attempt to repair...anyhow I took it apart and put it back together...now the motor with the small band spinns and stops then starts again..but the motor with the big band doesnt spin.
@@radra1040 could be two issues.
1. Does the larger motor spin with no belt on it
2. If it does, don't disassemble the transport but instead take the large belt off in situ. Try turning the capstan (the large silver wheel on the transport the motor drives) by hand. The transport my be a little stuck between modes. Don't force it and break it, but try and see if it turns freely by hand.
Good work!!
Very interesting.Subscribed.
Awesome, thank you!
I bought a second hand philips Aw-7550 dual cassette deck. Speed is a bit fast. Unable to adjust
It should have a pot on either the motor or the main board. Have a Google for the service manual.
@@pwrestoration i searched in google
You need to find a AIWA ADF800 or 880 these decks are Nakamichi killers at a 10th of the cost!
I'll have a look!
first for me with the "royalty free" bit.......
I've had some snags with royalty free music recently. It's actually difficult to find outside of UA-cam's own audio library.
what size this belt ? frw 9.0 ?
You can buy belt kits from eBay for cheap buddy
Can you show how you adjust the azimuth next time?
Hi Terry of course, I -think- I did that in my other video for the same deck.. I can't remember!
It's one screw on these decks, but if you have poor sound I would leave it alone and change your pinch roller. It's a common fault on these to cause tape skew a little and lose your treble when playing tapes.
20:34 mine have a spring there
Hi, i do enjoy your videos very much, but ít os very frustrating watching you work with one hand?? Why?
I have developed and evolved now with more recent videos, but I agree!
You know, if you put the camera down while you did things it would go a lot better.
Oh I've learned that, bought a tripod just after this video.
Bro i need help from you. If you help me. Technical.
Maybe, what's up?
Hello man. Friendly speaking is really impossible to work one hand. You should find another solution
I've tried to find a good solution but not found a great one yet! A tripod I think is a purchase worth getting.
@@pwrestoration I spend my whole day trying to fix an old Dual PCP1 Walkan. I realize i needed more than two hands. Maybe four.
Invest on a stand. You will have two hands to work on unit.
I'm way ahead of you, I learned that lesson a while back now 😅 it definitely helps, as I progress with my videos and channel.
Look at you, fuck the unit, you have a carboard box for it, that's more important these days, just kiddin' !!!!
Ah is it? I missed that memo! 😅