Manufacturers said don’t allow any hydrocarbon oils near it! Nylon/plastics silocon oil/grease only! Iso pro only for rubber tires, capstone, heads etc. Mark has remarkable patience! Excuse the pun !😅😅
Inspired by your good nature, tomorrow I will put new belts on a Sony TCK711S. I will do my best to be as cheery as you and not swear. Love your video's. Cheers from the Netherlands 👍🇳🇱
I've got a little jar that I use to store the leftover screws after a repair job. The difference between a good job and great job is if the jar is empty when I'm done.
This is a ultimate super messy design. Probably the design of this deck had promised to himself to come up most cranky design. Nightmare for repairman. But Mark had anyway has successfully done it. Great job Mark.
I think tape decks would be one of the hardest audio components to fix, a bizzare mix of electronics and mechanical, only a brave person would even begin to take one on, especially the high end ones, but your approach has given me some new ideas on my failed ones... I just wish had all your tools to go into battle. Great stuff as always.
I think CD players will get even more tricky, when thinking about DACs and all the other decades old digital components that will eventually fail at some point...
Great video, always cheers me up to watch your work. I have a couple of decks myself that needs belts and attention. Gotta love that wall of instruments as well. Oh, and nice cat btw.
Thanks Mate ! Great job. A little of patience and knowledge to do it. Another piece of electronic was saved that can to be thrown in the landfill if no one dare to fix. Another vintage audio equipment that can be enjoyed in the years to come.
I have a Sony WA7ES that has a similar problem with the head not rotating properly when switching directions. Plays great once you manually move the head to its intended position! I was just using it and not changing the direction until I felt more confident to take it on. Thank you for this video! I now have more courage to tackle it more thoroughly.
The part where he start taking cams and gears out gave me anxiety. Especially with old brittle plastic, springs, washers all over the place. I hope people appreciate the skill needed to not just find a problem, but to fix it and put everything back together without stuff snapping or breaking.
I'm amazed that only 1 piece plastic is broken considering the age of the deck. Your patience is amazing also. Tape decks are a nightmare to work on . I have a technics deck that is u.s . Because of 1 broken plastic cog. Such a shame to chuck it out because of a part that costs pence to make.
@keith neal. You may have already thought of this. Would it be possible to have the broken plastic cog/gear 3D printed? Obviously it depends if you have the gear parts complete. Stay safe and well.
My god, Kenwood engineers in the 80's had no concept of minimalist design or simplification did they?! The guts of that thing is a overcomplicated mess. If I didn't know any better I would have thought it had been built by a drunk in his shed using a schematic drawn by a 5 year old
I am so glad the days of cassette decks and 8 track decks are gone! Those auto reverse decks never worked properly. The playback head never aligned properly with the tape and you only got high fidelity in usually the forward direction. What a pain! Nakamichi were the only ones to solve that problem and those decks were _so_ expensive it made you question why you loved your stereo and music so much! 🤔🤨🙄
As a kid I stepped on one of those shafts with a large belt wheel, went straight through my foot. Hurts to even find the right words to describe it. I remember pulling it out, and the resistance of my shoe was more than my body provided. OOF!
Oh how I can relate :-) I praise my Technics decks, each tape unit comes out after the removal of 4 (easily accessable) screws. Any work needed doesn't end up being like open heart surgery. Nice video, as always. Really like your format Mark, and look forward to more fun stuff ... we're out here ,, watching 🙂
Mark its all so inspiring ( I’m Dutch sorry for the Language failures) I’m a Building technician and have no knowlegde of the complexe scemes . Never the less I Look Hours and Hours Tour Videos . I learned from it Never give up. But the skills you have! Looks like a sort of churgery! You always are so optimistic. I hope to See a lot of your video’s!
I'm enjoying the video here of Mend It Mark, fixing the tape deck since our friend Jonas from the Dr. Cassette channel is away for a while. Hugs from Brazil!
the tape counter lol,noticed it not working earlier on ,ive fixed a number of decks it doesn't ever feel better when you've put it all together and missed something ahhhhhh....
These mechanisms rely on the capstan motor running at the proper speed. When a function is selected from the buttons on the deck, the microprocessor pulses the solenoids for specific periods of time. That allows the cams in the mechanism to rotate specific distances, engaging different functions in the mechanism. The whole works can be thrown out of whack if the capstan motor is not running on speed.
My dad got a kenwood twin deck for £5 i did the belts on it a right pain as it was not easy as this one to get the belts out as the one deck the circuit board made it hard to come out as it was in the way and was not easy to get the front panel to remove ,i try to avoid twin decks now as decent belts can cost nearly as much as some are worth .i still have my aiwa twin deck i bought new in the 90s no doubt will need belts doing it never had much use as i mainly used it to copy cd,s to tape for car use .The decks i use now are an aiwa 3 hed and a pioneer ct 656 3 head and a basic 1985 sony tc fx 220 .Great idea with the bit of wire to add strength .Might be an idea to record some music from the youtube audio library just in case you get a copyright strike youtube can be a bit funny at times with using audio .
Señores, tengo una grabadora Sankyo de 1976, que en la parte de mecanismo tiene mejores materiales y piezas de metal que este aparato Kenwood, que a la legua es más caro que cualquier otra cosa. Pero, así es la vida. Le felicito señor.
Only recently found your channel, love the way you just machine a part or rewind a coil when needed, but just wondering with this one, when you fixed the little plastic piece, I was expecting you to grease the cam wheel with a bit of lithium grease maybe.
Reminds me of fixing dictating machines way back in 1970’s, over engineering on Philips, Grundig etc! Solenoids, relays, electrical clutches etc ! Simple Bowden cables would do the same job instead of switches/relays nightmare system! Fraser😅
I have ALWAYS had better luck pulling things apart than getting them back into place. This would be a nightmare for me. 31:11 Kitty just wants to make sure there's fresh hair on the cams and gears.
Looking around for parts and your video poped up. Wonder if you might knw where to get a new had for a KENWOOD KX-W8050, all I'm finding is belts, but not in the electronic industy either, so not sure where to look other than Google, or what parts might cross-over.
Another great informative video Mark ,thanks for posting ...nagging question if I may? Did you used to work with Mr R Whale back in the early noughties ?
Wow!, your patience and dexterity are something else Mark, my head and eyes were hurting looking at the rats nest of wires/pulleys/wheels/brackets/springs/etc. I assume you fixed this for a customer, if so, what did you charge if you don't mind me asking?
I want to know what those hidden buttons do. Was it just cheaper to hide the buttons of a more expensive model, than to revise the electronics. Do they work?
The hidden buttons are almost certainly a cost cutting measure and used on a higher end model. One of them had a pause symbol on it and another looked to have a recording symbol on it. There didn't appear to be any circuit board behind them.
Is it true that cam parts must be reinstalled in their original position in order to work again? I would not have had the temerity to disassemble that cam assembly!
