Good point, maybe it is a vibration from pressing PAUSE which fixes the grudge, Thanks!! When I free enough desk space to open a bbox I will check...
Ha! from the perspective of the house itself, this might be its only chance :loldiag: And Yes, I can guess what you are talking about. When I...
I would start with R ch wiring from the head to preamp section, sounds like a short or dead bypass cap there... Do we have a SM for CRS-400? I...
7.4V? Where? But looks exactly right for recharge voltage and myguess ‘6V to 7.4’ is a typo for 9-7.4? And YES, DC-DC converter gets seriously...
Thank you, my friends!!! Right now I have three Discmans seriously tinkered by previous owners, trying to revive at least one to restore my...
All original 9V transformer-based converters give 13-14V without load, this is normal. And if you compare them with modern 9V DC switch-mode...
[ATTACH] yet another Birthday for my lovely-self, this year celebrated at my Lab: my house, burned by Woolsey Fire is still, well, burned and my...
Absolutely ALL first-gen Discmans are sensitive to bumps/shocks! But if you want to check if yours is ‘up to specs’ then play CD-R or a skip-test...
Welcome aboard! This here is the only place where I can talk about my love for Discmans and recently we are seriously polluting S2G analog-lovers...
Shame it is! For when new lasers were officially available for a few bucks it was a common knowledge to buy a new laser if Anything went wrong...
Kaosun told me exactly the same thing, that increasing laser voltage is cheating. That is why I never played with laser current pot located on the...
that is normal, the first Discmans had a few design glitches fixed only during production. Usually ceramic caps and diodes (as here), but even...
@Silverera it is RF-300, as in most Discmans. RF410 was used mostly for slim-line pricey models like D-15/250/350 and if you have the original...
Ha!!! My love for good’ol’Phil is forever but I must have listened to his song one time too many:eek: I did not notice much differences between...
Great Job!, honored to be of help here!!! And I must say that it is YOU, not just the baby-Discman who passed the test: if I hear Sussudio song...
Two medium-size flat screwdrivers (old-skool screwdrivers of course, not the ones with interchangeable bits!) on both sides under the platter, all...
I use these: Mabuchi RF-300CA Shaft is 0.5mm longer than the original but fits perfectly, no need to shorten it. Just extend the wires, reset the...
Correct! You may double-check your tester by plugging red lead into its Amp socket and setting it for Amps, if still zero you do not have shorts...
Do NOT engage 'Hold' switch, for now it is better to forget about it! You have no immediate shorts so you lowered your chances of burning more of...
the famous 'middle gear problem'...!!! Always makes me chuckle because of an observation made by my fav sci-fi writer Robert Sheckley about...
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