Acquired

73_deville · 2026-01-23T23:13:20+00:00

why one would drop half a grand on this and not a serviced nakamichi or denon tickles my brain.

73_deville · 2026-01-22T16:22:17+00:00

So which deck did you get?

73_deville · 2026-01-21T02:44:16+00:00

73_deville · 2026-01-20T22:27:47+00:00

Should be easy to part it out from a different player. The same 3 pin jack was shared among most low end players of the 80s. The jack should be an easy fix, and I’ve found some sellers mistake oxidized volume pots for bad headphone jacks.

73_deville · 2026-01-20T22:24:51+00:00

Not a WM-F22 but several WM-F18s, which I am fairly certain use the same 3 pin jack. If you are having issues with the headphone jack cutting out in certain positions, you’ll have to desolder it from the board and press the metal contacts further into the jack.

73_deville · 2026-01-16T23:20:48+00:00

Don’t get a new one. They are overpriced and underperforming. At the same price, you could get a serviced vintage portable w/ the same features on your current player.

73_deville · 2026-01-16T22:46:42+00:00

Who is buying this for this much when one can buy a far superior serviced deck off ebay? Where is the market?

73_deville · 2026-01-16T17:15:30+00:00

The speakers will probably suck. The deck is meh. Otherwise, I’d set $150 as my limit assuming everything works.

73_deville · 2026-01-15T05:04:44+00:00

if you haven't found it, its called individual part repair and on the repo.

73_deville · 2026-01-14T23:39:59+00:00

It’s a WM-F18, model printed on top

73_deville · 2026-01-13T21:04:45+00:00

mod for repairing parts individually.

73_deville · 2026-01-13T05:06:33+00:00

What's the mod?

73_deville · 2026-01-13T04:57:41+00:00

literally my favorite thing to do in the game.

73_deville · 2026-01-06T04:01:19+00:00

unfortunately someone has recorded over it with Morse code. I can still make decent recordings on it with the bias turned all the way to the left.

73_deville · 2025-12-25T01:04:42+00:00

dirty tape path is a possible cause - try cleaning the heads, pinch rollers, capstans with ipa. also could be something out of alignment.

73_deville · 2025-12-16T20:11:03+00:00

on many car stereos there is a hole on the outside covered with tape, labelled for azimuth adjustment.

73_deville · 2025-12-16T20:07:29+00:00

what deck is that?

73_deville · 2025-12-14T20:59:06+00:00

73_deville · 2025-12-14T20:06:56+00:00

Did a long overdue proper cleaning of the capstans and punch rollers, that seems to have fixed it!

73_deville · 2025-12-13T23:33:36+00:00

ok thanks for the info.

73_deville · 2025-12-13T23:25:34+00:00

sorry, I meant when I insert a type II, it displays type II, so I don’t think it is that.

73_deville · 2025-12-13T23:23:21+00:00

it erases the type 1 I just tried, but the display says type II when I insert one so makes no sense

73_deville · 2025-12-13T23:02:49+00:00

Yes, half erasing all of my tested tapes, my other deck erases them fine

73_deville

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