Kenwood KX-54 cassette deck repairs 

The mechanism in this deck is almost the same as tgat of AKAI HX A1,the motir is also the same,12 v

The motor you are using looks like a Mabuchi knock-off from China. I've tried using those as replacements also, but they have never been completely satisfactory. Good replacement motors are difficult to find these days.

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oh man, i used to work for the kenwood (and yamaha , pioneer , HK , etc) service station in europe and i must have repaired 1000's of these kx-54's in the mid 1980-ies , there's a known problem with these where one of the spring holders breaks and the play bridge just drops again after pressing play (easily fixed if you know how, just bend the now loose spring 90 degrees down and insert in the opening the spring holder now shows)

maybe the reason you still have noise after repair is that while you oiled the mechanism, lithium grease needs to be replaced on the moving parts, not oil

Outtakes please

My Kenwood KX-54 comed to new, in a plastic, and i press play he no moved anything.

How to my father to open the motor's zone to fix the belt?

Where do u find parts for cassette decks?

This was the cassette deck I had growing up! 😮 ...and this is the first time I've ever seen what it looks like inside. 😊

Brilliant video but I sometimes wonder.. It seems to me that a lot of devices like this one were never meant to be serviced at all , so they left a big ecological footprint . It's just garbage when the first problems occur , if it ever functioned properly at all

I have sony mhc p99x. 125w small mini ...its fan does nt work and it gets hot around 60..70 C. can i use computer fan? will it burn if fan is not working?

Silikonspray tut dort meistens auch seinen Job. Muss man nicht zimperlich sein.

That Kenwood deck mechanism looks virtually identical to the one used in a 1986/87 SABA RCP-650 (single cassette) boombox. It has a small rubber idler tyre in the front (mostly for playback - rewind/f-fwd is geared) - this tyre cracks quite often in these decks and can be a pain to replace (don't waste a bunch of time trying to repair or glue it). Those do fail as well as the belts.

Is Trio another brand name ad in Europe?

hi have seen this inside before in many models a to deck one yes the W1 deck 6 track recorder i had to change over motors i pimped to 3 3/4 on the 2 tape decks

Its people like you that are keeping these classic vintage retro machines alive. Take care.

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Amazing work! Wish I had the knowledge and patience that you have.

You must have had an infinite amountbof patience while repairing this deck! Great video, keep up the good work!