This solves the mystery of the dimple on the screws! But buying JIS screwdrivers is a bit of a mission... for example, Vessel's website describes...
I have a small box of Overhead Projector film retained from a University course about 15 years back. Do you think it may be a good long-term...
Alex, very sorry I'm a month late picking this up. I have uploaded the only useful image I have, which is the tape path. Kind regards, Nick.
Last year I rebuilt a big old Hortex PC9090 boombox. The box itself was a disappointment, all chrome and graphics with minimal functionality but...
Before replacing the pinch roller, the "cheap" option would be to clean it first! I audition dozens of used pre-recorded cassettes every week and...
[ATTACH] I've spent several months laboring over a PJ33 that has all sorts of problems (I suspect mainly caused by old function switches driving...
One for sale right now on New Zealand's eBay equivalent, TradeMe, priced at approximately 350 UK pounds. Is this a bargain...?...
22 tape and tuner had 12v which made them OK for your Kombi van but you'd have to find another amp...
Maybe its modernistic pretensions tend more to Space Station #5?
Ah yes, imagine the beauty of a Naim refrigerator, while our dear Sony, responsible for some truly beautiful creations (I'm thinking MZ-RH1 here,...
Yes, in "Clark Kent" mode it is also known as EA3-5618A. You can kinda see why they went for Red Rocker.
Yes, the upstairs part holds earbuds, but it's only a holder and you would need to unwind the buds and plug into the actual headset socket - then...
What you would expect from a company that makes Jet Engines, Kettles, and Railway Locomotives: a pretty well built piece of kit with almost zero...
Thank you Mister X, nice to have one's hard work appreciated. I guess with the hockey pucks you'd have to bake the logo in during production, like...
Just finished a light restoration of a National RX SR25 walkman - not a remarkable or particularly interesting machine but I needed to restore the...
Love it: "some Walkmen are constructed such that access to the interior is virtually impossible without a hand-grenade"
I am auditioning roughly 300 pre-recorded cassettes bought online and this happens every now and again. The decks I use are high-end Pioneers,...
Hi lupogtiboy, I restored a Aiwa 22 system 18 months ago. The belts were not hard to find on eBay, the trader was BlackReel-Audio HIFI (I hadn't...
Thanks Mister X. I have seen this done with rigid wire and epoxy, I just couldn't see it working in the Hortex. My approach was to make the metal...
This clunky old Hortex Boombox has been a roadblock for all my other projects. It was held together with square-drive woodscrews and one cassette...
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