I really miss the hi-fi stack systems of the 80s & 90s. They looked awesome and sounded great, miss the boomboxes too.

Wow. You are s good technician who do job with love and patience

Amazing work! I took my old aiwa with autorverse out of storage and fixed it. I spent so much time cleaning out the melted belts. Then it took multiple attempts to clean and gently lubricate the autorverse mechanism. I was cringing so hard when you just slapped it back together. But it worked out. I'm very impressed!

Thanks for a great video, just used it to revive a similar unit that hasn't been used for over 20 years. A mention also to Matt at DeckTech who was very helpful in providing a full set of new belts - recommended. End result sounds a lot better than I was expecting, perhaps better than I remember. Now I can digitise that stack of old tapes.

Nice one. Bought myself an Aiwa ADF410 last week from ebay and repaired over the Christmas break. I'm sure I saw the listing for that very machine so brilliant to see your effort!

That Deck looked a bit of a Nightmare to be honest, I was thinking “Elastic Band” when you removed the Orange/Red Belt to be honest! 😂 Oh yeah & who doesn’t love a bit of Chas’n’Dave! “Why don’t you give it a rest, Rabbit, Rabbit” You know how it goes! 🙂

I have a AIWA XKS 7000 - It looks similar , I had it serviced a few years ago and I have to say - it sounds So warm and wonderfully analogue

Superb work this deck sounds great better than the ad f450 i have .I have recently done my aiwa ad w x828 twin deck i bought new many years ago, it was an absolute pain, i knew the solenoid's had to be unsoldered and this was easy. The duratool desolder station from cpc makes it quick and easy .You have to seat a leaf spring switch on the motor board correctly . oddly the 2 cam positions for deck functions are not in the service manual i went round in circles trying to figure it out before looking at a Russian guys video on the ad w x929 and he pointed and showed how to do it i took a screen shot on the phone and then it was good i now knew how to set the deck and upon testing it was mostly good but wrong functions every now and then on the front panel buttons .i bought a spare parts deck and swapped button boards over and all is fine the spare parts deck was quite handy for working things out at some point i will sort it out as i now know how to do theses decks with no problems .my deck was stored in a loft most likely why it needs the button switches replacing .All i need to do now is the idler tyre and pinch rollers on my 3 head aiwa .

You are missing the tiny ball bearing between that little metallic retaining plate and the mechanisms

I've just watched a future video where you repair a 450 variant of this. It would be interesting to hear and see if there was a difference between the two. As there's a separate drive motor for the flywheel; if the heads are different and or electronics.

I well remember selling these back in the day aswell as the top of the range Aiwa Excelia XK-009 (equivelent to Sony ES range).

I was just about to subscribe then you went all Chas 'n' Dave on me! Just kidding. Great video. That's a lot of effort to change the belts. My AF-F410 was hard work, but at least I didn't have to get the soldering iron out. Nice work sorting out someone else's bodge-job. Happy New Year!

I find with these you don't need to remove the PCB and desolder it. You can click it up slightly with just enough room to fit the belt in place around the black wheel then click it back down. I fixed my memorex auto reverse deck which is just a rebadged aiwa this way. They sound really good for what they are. I made a few mix tapes for my friend and she says they sound like a CD in her car! :) Good stuff.

Just subscribed great fix really don't make easy to service 👍

Good work!!

23:41 PCB-E is the board (PCB). You can see the hole where the clip was melted in and it looks likes it comes off with the solenoids. 50:14 I found metal screwdrivers can mess with the speed adjustment pot when removing them as they also conduct. I was able to find some ceramic ones online for that. But their shafts are too short for azimuth adjustment. Good job cleaning up that other person's mess!

Very interesting.Subscribed.

I had an AD-F450, which came out a couple of years after this. Essentially the same deck, but the 450 didn't have tape calibration. Not bad decks when they are working properly. I think I only paid about £80 for it new, from Richer Sounds back in the day.

Dude, put a regular rubber band over the capstan and the belt to hold it in place. Once the parts are assembled, just cut the rubber band off :-). I've done my Aiwa belt replacements, but this one is a bloody nightmare. Must be the '90's model. In the '80's they did them more friendly to service.

Hello from a french guy from Lyon. It takes me 5/10 minutes to get accustomed to your accent but after that I was tuned ... As a former scouser when I was student it helps... Are you a Northener ? By the way, I really like your didactic tone and the way you describe your work. Wish you the best for 2023 mate.

Couldn’t imagine how much wow and flutter that drive belt would have caused with it being mended back together. Every revolution of that belt would have made any tape played in it sound terrible!

Can you show in a video how to adjust the rec levels ? I have AD-F410 version and a channel is lower than other

Wow very interesting video and you are the master professional engineer question for you on your smart phone which application did you use to check the frequency? Please kindly let me know thanks you

Amazing video. My dad bought this deck new back in the day and now we are trying to change the belts. Only problem there is, we have neither experience nor equipment for unsoldering/soldering so is it really possible to avoid that? We have opened it, cleaned of the old belt remains and etc but now that's the problem. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot 🔝👏🏻

❤ hey i bought one of KZfaq and got it all apart and the bands on…but now it clicks and doesn’t play a Kassette….before I put the bands on the motors would at least spin…did I move a plastic piece or something…

Can you show how you adjust the azimuth next time?

You need to find a AIWA ADF800 or 880 these decks are Nakamichi killers at a 10th of the cost!

what size this belt ? frw 9.0 ?

first for me with the "royalty free" bit.......

20:34 mine have a spring there

You know, if you put the camera down while you did things it would go a lot better.

Hi, i do enjoy your videos very much, but ít os very frustrating watching you work with one hand?? Why?

Hello man. Friendly speaking is really impossible to work one hand. You should find another solution

Invest on a stand. You will have two hands to work on unit.

Look at you, fuck the unit, you have a carboard box for it, that's more important these days, just kiddin' !!!!