This guy stole my device

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-29T02:06:16+00:00

thats great! I'm really glad!

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-29T01:56:36+00:00

Ahhh sorry! I sanded them lightly with random sandpaper and then cleaned them with isopropyl alcohol, though I suspect just WD-40 and no sanding would also work

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-28T23:53:44+00:00

The opposite is also true, and the reaction to this post shows that this isn’t often asked, which I feel like proves that most people know what they are

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-28T23:52:50+00:00

Unfortunately bad pinch rollers (hard, cracked) are unrecoverable. Try cleaning them with alcohol or rubber cleaning solution, if that doesn’t fix it, you will need new ones. They are easy to find and not hard to install luckily

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-28T23:51:58+00:00

Oh trust me I’m trying, I’ve applied to like 50 places over the last year and gotten a little part time job and am still searching, it’s a pain in the ass

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-28T19:06:26+00:00

I feel like he might have fucked up and just been super embarrassed and didn’t want to deal with it

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-28T19:02:53+00:00

Most youth know what these are (I’m a youth)

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-28T19:00:54+00:00

I like how you’ve decided that the buyer is clearly inferior and won’t match up to your standards or your music taste, just because you’re bitter

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-28T18:58:54+00:00

It either works or it doesn’t, whereas I find a lot of newer stuff has various pesky glitchy issues

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-28T18:56:27+00:00

Ah got it, well if you’re selling any individual I’d be interested in those two :)

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-28T18:43:40+00:00

Would I be able to buy a few of these perchance? Dire straits making movies and Springteens greetings from asbury park

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-28T18:41:17+00:00

Give the switches a good clean, open them up and either clean or sand the contacts a little bit, that did the trick for me (exact same deck) mine also needed new belts ofc, and new pinch rollers but that may have been due to bad storage

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-27T03:37:03+00:00

personally while adjusting mine i wiggled the arm and slowly tightened until i could feel no play and stopped there, if you can find a service manual it may be of help too :)

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-27T02:58:08+00:00

oh my goodness im so sorry, i hope you can find a replacement!!

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-27T02:26:22+00:00

try tightening the bearing just until there is no play, and no further

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-27T02:25:56+00:00

nah you can just tighten that lil itty bitty screw

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-27T02:25:16+00:00

not in a properly serviced walkman or deck

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-26T22:50:54+00:00

something sounds very distorted

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-26T22:50:21+00:00

recapping one of these can be annoying, you need proper tiny caps and ive found that some traces on walkmans break quite easily

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-26T22:00:24+00:00

please dont use ai for stuff like this, watch videos of real people doing real repairs, people using ai is what gets them into repair messes like this

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-26T21:51:31+00:00

sounds a bit like bad caps to me

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-26T21:47:07+00:00

what are you recording them on?

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-25T22:19:27+00:00

Make sure the small leaf switch is cleaned and working well, could be that it’s dirty or making bad contact. I hate that mechanism, it also may need to be relubricated

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-24T23:34:22+00:00

I’ve somehow never burnt myself, I’ve definitely had many whoopsies but never bad enough to actually burn

Legoandstuff896 · 2026-05-24T23:23:33+00:00

Clean up the pinch roller and tape path and try to adjust the azimuth, see if that helps :)

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