Hello and welcome I'm from Australia too
Nice Catalogue. I have the Sony CFS-9000 and CFD-5 both fully working The Red D-50 discman and the D6-C both fully working too :)
The Sony FDM-330 like in my video is very difficult to fix because it is very difficult to find a working LCD display. Most have turned yellow...
Which model is you watchman?
Correct the L202 was open circuit I also had the exact same issue with my Sony FH-110W cassette mech too
Here is a short video of my Sony FDM-330 Colour Watchman 1988 [MEDIA]
Hey Richard they sound great. One of my Sony watchmans is the Sony Colour Watchman FDM-330 modular design which I have 1 x working out of 3, they...
Checked the Audio board and in particular the inductors for record level and bias level. Found L202 (Right channel bias was open circuit)...
My Seiko TV watch playing the intro to the movie that features this watch 1983 James Bond Octopussy :)...
Yes I managed to obtain mine with the original box and everything else in it I have 2 fully working watches and one for spares which is badly...
Thanks and yes the FM radio works great too
My Sony CFS-9000 plays tapes great but when recording from radio or Aux the right channel is very low and only just hear it with volume up high...
Since we are posting items other than audio gear here is one of my other items restored by me :) [MEDIA]
The best place to get belts is from fix your audio The guy's name is Marian and he is Mikohm on Ebay Very precise belts
[ATTACH] Sony WM-DD9 with Sony UX Chrome playing 1927's album "Ish" classic Aussie band :)
Please post a video showing the mechanism and trying to press play
For those who are actually interested, the issue was the alignment of the Fwd capstan motor. The noise is gone after realigning it.
So what other threads are there ??
Hi, My DD9 playback sounds great in forward and reverse. FF and REW both work fine In forward playback I can hear like a ticking almost...
Ebay search for 22mm diameter x 1mm thick They work great in my DD9 :)
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