I found this cool website, sorry if it's been posted before but there's a lot of good stuff on here. There's a large section on tape players and tons of various other repairs by several authors. http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/sam/audiofaq.htm#audctpocd
Thank you for the link, this will be most useful. Hopefully I'll butcher less Walkman when attempting to repair.
Love it: "some Walkmen are constructed such that access to the interior is virtually impossible without a hand-grenade"
that is quite a lot to read and I am glad that it is dumbed down for some of you out there & you know whom you are - giggles