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'Repairing' the unique Twin Tape Sony Walkman W800
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Күн бұрынIn this video I attempt to repair the only twin-tape Walkman that Sony made, the WM-W800 from 1985. If you have a walkman that needs a new belt - you can find a link to the store below.
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Enquiries about the clock - Here's the video I made about it back in November 2016 • Review: LaMetric Time ... If you missed this you might want to check through the back catalogue, as I've uploaded over 400 videos.
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The video is a heavily compressed version of events. In reality this was shot over two weeks and approximately 5 hours. The machine was taken apart a total of three times - twice after the reassembly shown in the video in an attempt to rectify the playback fault, without success. As mentioned in the video there were other issues such as speed fluctuations due to sticky pinch rollers...so it was determined that enough time had been spent on this project and this was as far as this repair will go. I am now on to making the next video.
---Errors---
I mistakenly confused Doctor Walkman (who is actually a chap in Italy who repairs walkman) with Mihokm who supplies the belts on ebay. I apologise for the confusion.
In addition - I probably should have just said the walkman was working fine at the end - it would have been a happier end for everyone. I'm a bit too honest for my own good sometimes. I could easily have shown it playing on both decks and dubbed the sound over. Given the feedback it seems like a many people would have preferred this...so sorry for that.
@panchri 7 жыл бұрын
Techmoan: Keeping the rubber belt industry alive.
@gsacni 7 жыл бұрын
Those belts are getting harder and harder to get. Will probably be obsolete soon.
@panchri 7 жыл бұрын
And that's how the war began.
@pegtooth2006 7 жыл бұрын
total slave to the belt industry... tsk tsk lol
@mrwassef 6 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't sell my belt to industry. So they carded me, and they carted me off
@squiggle2054 4 жыл бұрын
@@gsacni actually the guy near germany who makes them ive bought a few off of, he has a lot and they are professionally made
@swiftfox3461 7 жыл бұрын
I used to think that millions of tiny little screws were bad. Then everything started to be attached with plastic catches, and the screws became easy to work with by comparison. It's really hard to disassemble modern hardware without breaking off one or more of these and/or creating pry marks along the edge of the case where the two halves of the case meet.
@subtledemisefox 5 жыл бұрын
Even worse now is when electronics are just held together by glue and are all but completely unserviceable, even by professionals.
@MrDegsy69 5 жыл бұрын
Swift Fox learn the art of 'spudging' my friend. A nylon plastic guitar pick is often the way to go. Start at an obvious place like an opening aperture on the case and then pop the first latch gradually working your way round with a reciprocating slicing action. My Samsung J5 has a battery cover that works on this principle and i am constantly popping the back off to access the SD card with no ill effect. It even has a little finger lift detent to assist you in the process.
@A-G-F- 4 жыл бұрын
@sbcontt YT those contact conectors tend to corrode, ribbon cables allow for slimer stuff
@terranovarain6570 4 жыл бұрын
@sbcontt YT to take a galaxy s8 back off you need a heat gun and playing cards 😖 but I still loved mine because it was water tight till I dropped it and cracked the screen across the front cam have a galaxy note 10+ now love this phone so much hope I never break it bought a good case for this one that is water tight because this phone isn't wish i would've bought a better case for my s8 thought otter box was spose to be good
@swiftfox3461 3 жыл бұрын
@@MrDegsy69 I've tried spudging so many times it stopped being funny. I nearly always damage the case of the device. Either the plastic is coated with paint that scratches off, is too soft so it chips while prying even with other plastic, or I'm just plain unfamiliar with opening a particular device because my repairs are usually one-offs and I don't repair stuff professionally.
@JohnQuilyQuinlan 7 жыл бұрын
when i was kid back in the 80's i couldnt afford one, one night i see a guy arguing with his girlfriend and he smashed his walkman on the ground, i waited until he left picked up the peices and superglued it back together and it worked , amazing, without youtube and only 10 years old, great memories,thanks.
@briankelly9347 5 жыл бұрын
They were only 100 to 200 bucks you mustve been poor!!! Lol lol lol
@zappawoman5183 5 жыл бұрын
Wow - that guy had a girlfriend and a Walkman and he still wasn't happy? Sod his entitled ass. It's very gratifying to know that you got the Walkman to work again. That guy didn't appreciate what he had!
@LordMayorOfDairyBell 5 жыл бұрын
@@defaultusername123 When you're angry, nothing matters. It could be as little as a penny to as much as a billion dollars.
@lordseaworth6055 4 жыл бұрын
Got to love these made up stories for likes
@kaladar5377 4 жыл бұрын
Hha ha ha, unexpectedly you got walkman, that night was lucky to you.
@scrubmeister6746 6 жыл бұрын
"Portable piracy machine"
@tminusblastedrocket 5 жыл бұрын
machine piracy portable
@tjimicole2677 5 жыл бұрын
I think the word you're looking for is "Ship"
@MrDegsy69 5 жыл бұрын
It's really laughable how precious the music industry were about piracy back then? This modern day age of digital proliferation has truly redefined the boundaries of what exactly is intellectual property. Fact of the matter is that analogue transfers had to be done in real time back then and always with quality loss on each generation. Contrast this with the present day instant digital cloning and you can get a real perspective on those fears. Digital piracy is for all intents and purposes unstopable as it is a virtual rather than physical product that requires no manufacturing and distribution chain and henceforth no collection of royalties as it is distributed in an open source manner.
@igorszamaszow171 5 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a pretty good name for an early Nine Inch Nails live bootleg
@noeltrevino9429 7 жыл бұрын
I have this Walkman, I bought it off eBay for $40, but I had no idea how to take it apart and find the belts. This video just helped me figure it out! So now, all I have to do is order the belts and put them on!
@TheCarDemotic 4 жыл бұрын
Lucky. Now I want one but they are expensive
@Nostalgianerd 7 жыл бұрын
You had me at "Latest Spectrum game"
@deathbringer2000 4 жыл бұрын
Wow... How do you have no replys yet?
@kennethbouchard8643 4 жыл бұрын
Still have a couple of my old Spectrum Games, on cassette. I think they are PSION Chess, and Flight Simulator. Hard to say if they work, as I have no Timex Sinclair any more, i wore out that machine 30 years ago. Probably should have kept it. There are simulators, I do not know if you can use them to somehow load tapes via the computer into them, May need to try it someday.
@TheGarageGuru95 3 жыл бұрын
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@TheGarageGuru95 3 жыл бұрын
@@kennethbouchard8643 uu7uuuuuuuu
@unfinishedtelevision8080 7 жыл бұрын
Seriously, who dislikes these videos? They are are a lot more professional and informative than a lot of stuff made for TV.
@swiftfox3461 7 жыл бұрын
unfinished television Agreed. KZfaq is a great informative resource, if you know whose channels to subscribe to. Techmoan is one of them, towards the very top of the list.
@BertGrink 7 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree more!
@zukriuchen 4 жыл бұрын
I've always wondered who makes up most of the dislikes on videos. Is it toddlers that don't know what they're doing? Is it people with some insane grudge? Probably a lot of people who do it 'just because'. Personally, I like to imagine there's someone out there who presumably looks like Anton Ego from Ratatouille, watches an entirely well-produced video such as this, then clicks dislike because one of the fade-ins was 1 second too quick
@Alexwav 4 жыл бұрын
zukriuchen as a 13 year old I agree with all of the statements
@bobbygrossman4444 4 жыл бұрын
@@Alexwav Chief.
@gsacni 7 жыл бұрын
The tape players of those days usually had a Rec/Pb changeover slide switch soldered onto the PC Board, which oxidizes with age, and needs to be treated with a lubricating switch cleaner. That is usually the reason why the Rec/Pb functions go haywire.
@MrDegsy69 5 жыл бұрын
Gsacni so maybe with a blast of that all would be good? It certainly looked like the machine in the video had very little use as the screen printing and decals on it were virtually mint for something of that age!
@badderthanyou 5 жыл бұрын
Deoxit?
@SirJeff 4 жыл бұрын
badderthanyou That works, Nutrol too
@alastairward2774 7 жыл бұрын
A Techmoan video that's 100% repair? Like a cake that's all icing...
@het_gele_teken 7 жыл бұрын
Now I'm hungry... ;-)
@caturdaynite7217 7 жыл бұрын
I'm a tech who has been repairing laptops for 20 years. I used love the walkman, back in the 80's. Don't be afraid to try to repair things, well, I guess I don't need to tell you. Always look forward to your videos. This one is especially tasty as I repair small things, like laptops and it's really fun to watch. Thanks from Wisconsin, USA. Meow.
@caturdaynite7217 7 жыл бұрын
Oh yea, almost forgot. I like the two intros. It's cool.
@alastairward2774 7 жыл бұрын
Caturday Nite in a way the best phone I had was an original Samsung Galaxy Note, enough screws and little enough glue that I could actually open it myself and repair it by replacing a broken part.
@alastairward2774 7 жыл бұрын
***** of course I ruined it by dropping it the once I didn't have a cover on it and smashing the screen :)
@madfinntech 7 жыл бұрын
The golden age of electronics when they actually put things together using screws.
@utfigyii5987 7 жыл бұрын
MadFinnTech and you didn't need to send them to expensive repairing services Suomi perkele
@azzajohnson2123 6 жыл бұрын
Yep now it’s all hot glue so you don’t bother repairing your forced to replace..
@gentuxable 6 жыл бұрын
Man of Culture true, but honestly it's all integrated circuit and software today and that makes things cheaper to build but harder to repair. If only we could require manufacturers to release source code and schematics 3 years after the last unit of a product was sold to have a community fix bugs and make it work with newer standards and others fix the stuff.
@bryanotero123 6 жыл бұрын
gentuxable Next lever nerd shit xDD not an insult, just saying by the ring of it
@bland9876 5 жыл бұрын
"What's a screw? I'm just use to putting things together with hot snot and flex tape" everyone born after 2000
@kaceyh97 7 жыл бұрын
You should use an ice cube tray to keep all the screws separated. They're nice and cheap and give you tons of pockets to keep all the different sizes separate. Then when you want to put the thing together you just work in reverse and you know which screws go where.
@juicewrldextendedunrelease5274 7 жыл бұрын
Good advice!
@onemanshow4116 7 жыл бұрын
Better to get one of the magnetic mats that have tic-tac-toe patterns... You can also use a dry erase marker to write yourself notes...
@tbb033 7 жыл бұрын
Or just do it on video and watch it back when you're closing it up
@quaxk 7 жыл бұрын
I use transparent med containers, if you absolutely want to use a tray use a pill organizer so you at least have a lid for the different compartments
@l3p3 7 жыл бұрын
When I disassemble such things, I draw every perspective like a manual and put the screws on the drawing, at their proper position.
@Techmoan 7 жыл бұрын
*Enquiries about the clock - Here's the video I made about it back in November 2016 **kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l6t5m8Zel9zReYE.html** If you missed this you might also want to look through my back catalogue, of over 400 videos. More info about subsequent attempts to resolve the playback issues is in the video description text box*
@brokenscart7989 7 жыл бұрын
Techmoan it looks really cool.
@Fierofreak01 7 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing the people asking aren't your long term subscribers...
@4by100 7 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy seeing how many more subs you have since you recorded the video, love seeing your subscriber base grow! keep up the amazing work.
@0rderSol 7 жыл бұрын
You've gained roughly 700 subs since recording.
@youfoundisaac 7 жыл бұрын
What happens when you invariably hit 1,000,000?
@VictorFleur 7 жыл бұрын
techmoan: best belt repairing channel on yt
@treiz01 7 жыл бұрын
It'll never fail to impress me how well built and repairable these devices were. They just don't make them like they used to.
@Damien.D 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, old SONY stuff are pieces of art.
@kirbyswarp 7 жыл бұрын
Damien Drouart sonys current phones are still art.
@Damien.D 7 жыл бұрын
kirbyswarp yeah they feature a good design but are not these electonics and mechanical marvels of yesterday
@kirbyswarp 7 жыл бұрын
I was speaking of design.
@tbb033 7 жыл бұрын
Sony makes phones?
@WaltonPete 7 жыл бұрын
The reason there's only sound from either deck when using the record function is likely because the record switch needs cleaning. Pretty much all tape recorders have a multi contact switch which moves when the record button is pressed and it changes the output of the pre-amp from going straight to the main amp and instead routes it through the recording circuitry and into the record heads. If the contacts on this switch are oxidised and not conducting properly then the tape player can either have poor or no output or not record clearly. I suspect having not been used for years has made the switch contacts oxidised and therefore non conductive in play mode. Just a little squirt of contact cleaner into the record switch should clear up the problem.
@gsacni 7 жыл бұрын
Yep. Very true. I've been servicing these things for more than 30 years, and cleaning the pots and switches is a must after replacing the belts, and 95% of the time it clears all problems.
@amirpourghoureiyan1637 6 жыл бұрын
In that case, he should do a follow up vid
@henryfriedman8518 5 жыл бұрын
Great advice!
@VitorMadeira 7 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. I'm Portuguese and this is so amazing. I'm now 42 years old and back in the 1980's, here in Portugal, it was quite the same: buying ZX Spectrum games with a friend and get home to make a copy of the tape so we both could enjoy it at the same time. Thank you for this nostalgic moment.
@spidermonkeynr1 7 жыл бұрын
I would love it if you had a own tv show on the bbc. Where you travel around and find old tech. i would watch that. Greetinz fron the Netherlands
@SammyRenard 5 жыл бұрын
Ashens got his own once, surely can techmoan!
@kennethbouchard8643 4 жыл бұрын
I suppose if it were local to him, but its still a lot cheaper to just ship things. I wonder how much space takes up to have to store all the things he has made videos for.
@leleedler 7 жыл бұрын
Yay! Papi TechMoan releases more gold!
@ethann_browne 7 жыл бұрын
No, Techmoan doesn't release gold. It's more a mixture of all the precious metals; Platinum, gold, silver, etc.
@tbb033 7 жыл бұрын
3MJB don make me cut choo mang, this vid has more gold than a mine
@xboys_archive 6 жыл бұрын
Le Leedler 100th like
@Vinyl_guy 2 жыл бұрын
My friend has a 2 tape deck and we have a simple rule, you can copy any tape that your friend has but you have to supply the blank tape that you want the album on, we of course are huge retro tech nerds
@TechKyle 7 жыл бұрын
You having that feeling being afraid of not being able to put it back together. I normally don't have that but when I tried taking my camera apart I had that feeling, I didn't put it back together and went on a vacation for a week. I put it back together after that, and it was indeed so satisfying to see everything line up and no screw left. Anyways, great video. I really enjoyed this one.
@StephenGarnett 7 жыл бұрын
+Techmoan brilliantly informative, as usual. Have you ever considered doing a video on the quadrophonic sound formats of the 70s? I've looked and looked and there really isn't much info out there, especially on KZfaq.
@Techmoan 7 жыл бұрын
One day I will.
@StephenGarnett 7 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. Can't wait to see you wrestle with all the incompatible formats like QS, SQ and CD4! Keep up the good work!
@joohop 7 жыл бұрын
I've been looking into Quad Recording here Bud
@StephenGarnett 7 жыл бұрын
***** where? You got a link?
@faabzeeland 7 жыл бұрын
Im interested too! I've got a Sony TA-88 amp and a matching Fm/Am radio. There is a third component that one can add that connects to the tape in/out of the amp. No idea what the idea behind it is
@unullness 7 жыл бұрын
I found this channel about a week ago, and it's been my absolute favorite since
@Betamacx 7 жыл бұрын
After watching a lot of your videos, I thought a quick message was in order to let you know I really enjoy your work. Keep it up and don't let the sometimes negative comments be a reason to apologize! It's your work as an technology enthusiast and I appreciate the manner in which you explain the process of finding interesting pieces of (old) technology, getting them to work (or sometimes not) and telling a bit of background information on them. Good job!
@ciphermatrix 7 жыл бұрын
A very very desirable object back in the day when we would all get excited over the latest currys, laskeys and richer sounds pamphlets and the stuff within, but none of us could afford one. I get ridiculously nostalgic about walkmans...
@nationwidepenguin 7 жыл бұрын
brilliant! someone else that remembers Laskys!
@Growveguk 7 жыл бұрын
I remember our Commodore 64 getting purchased in the Leeds Laskys store in the 80's!!!!!!!
@Techmoan 7 жыл бұрын
That was when Comet who bought Laskys in 1989 and shut all their stores briefly used the name for an online store.
@nationwidepenguin 7 жыл бұрын
Yes, in my JVC, ONdigital and Sony days, I had many discussions with Buyers from most of the National Accounts and Independent franchisees...Lasky's was just a tad before my time - I was learning my CE trade! Keep up the good work, it's great to see the items we used to see percolate from R&D (often in Japan) now being so treasured by collectors and appreciators. It's just a pity I didn't put all my kit in storage - may have helped the pension!
@DesandSam 7 жыл бұрын
Bought my Wharfedale Diamonds at Laskys in Queensgate Peterborough!
@kirbymurdstone4925 7 жыл бұрын
What a fun piece of Miniature engineering! Actually made to be repaired. Nothing like that on the store shelves today.
@AttilaTheHun333333 7 жыл бұрын
Bought various belts a pinch rollers from that chap in Slovakia. Highly recommend! Extremely helpful and reliable guy, fast shipping too.
@TonyGearSolid 7 жыл бұрын
Definitely one of the most interesting and educational channels on KZfaq for those forever curious about old tech. Great stuff man, keep it up.
@odditymusic9286 7 жыл бұрын
I was watching this video when my son asked me,"wait... games used to come from music tape?!"
@kennethbouchard8643 4 жыл бұрын
@@notahotshot I have seen Imsai computer, which used a paper punch reader and writer on a TTY machine, in which you fed programs into, and we actually did. And then it used continuous form paper to run it when you hit the run switch, brought up tiny basic. I has a TTY that got thrown out back in the 80s, that I got working, but nothing to hook it up to.
@Wyld1one 4 жыл бұрын
Heh. My commodore64 had both a tape drive and a floppy disk. However; the taps drive was $50 us vs $200us for ths floppy drive. I bought the cheapest i could until i could afford the other.
@DTD110865 3 жыл бұрын
The majority of the games in the US came from specially built cartridges. Atari, Mattel's Intellivision, Coleco-Vision, and stuff like that. Cassettes were for early PC's.
@ykcinasak 7 жыл бұрын
I am a big fan of your channel and I am proud that belts are from Slovakia (I am from Slovakia) :)
@matusondrejicka1860 3 жыл бұрын
I am too 😄♥️🇸🇰🇸🇰
@revmpandora 7 жыл бұрын
I'd say. you've become a master of perished belt removal and replacement, not to mention sourcing the replacements, which can be a bit of an adventure all its own! Cheers and thanks again for another fantastic video!
@Sammie1053 7 жыл бұрын
I love how you can see on the display in the background that someone subscribed while you were filming this. Right around the 12:25 mark
@maoristereo 7 жыл бұрын
Your camera is excellent, yours are the best quality, most crisp and clear videos ive ever seen on youtube. What machine do you use?
@numbers9to0 7 жыл бұрын
So your clock in the background can display the number of subscribers. :D
@Techmoan 7 жыл бұрын
Purchasing links are always posted in the video descriptions of the videos I upload...you'll find them there.
@The76Malibu 7 жыл бұрын
He has actually made a video on this clock. :) Here it is: watch?v=aEIhc-2vmIM&t=1s
@arimago 7 жыл бұрын
Lars Bolduc scroll up.
@The76Malibu 7 жыл бұрын
***** Hah! We must have been typing our comments at the same time.
@viveksoley 7 жыл бұрын
Watching you open up that piece of equipment and reassemble it is so satisfying....
@richfiles 7 жыл бұрын
Sony products of the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and to a degree, early 90s are marvels of volumetric engineering... I have a 1969 Sony calculator that comes apart with a pair of quarter turn slot screws (the type you can use a coin to twist), a spring loaded release, and two retainer clips. From there, you can fold out the power supply board (without detaching the power connectors) and service the unit's 5 main boards. Yup... 5 boards to drive a calculator, all slotted into a metal frame with a backplane! Sony has a history of exquisitely serviceable products, pre-90s. That whole deal where the assembly folded open... Sony did stuff like that all the time, and it's meant for ease of serviceability. Their service manuals of the era... Oh my... They can bring a tear to the eye, they are so exquisitely detailed, and so professionally laid out! Those were the days! It's truly a shame the old Sony is a relic of days gone by.
@passacaglia28 7 жыл бұрын
As cheesy as this may sound, I feel like my IQ goes up a few points every time I watch one of your videos! Your KZfaq channel is one of my favorites, and I always look forward to new uploads. Thanks for all you do! :D
@stevemaherart 7 жыл бұрын
Great video, again, would love to see something about broadcast monitors sometime, like the Sony one to your left on the desk.
@Techmoan 7 жыл бұрын
I've got something in the early stages of planning on this.
@stevemaherart 7 жыл бұрын
Delighted to hear that.
@azzajohnson2123 6 жыл бұрын
I like the fact he persists with it, can’t repair it 100%, took the lessons learnt from playing with it and uploaded the video anyway. The learning effort and take home is worth more than the device.
@BungaEBiker 7 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the club. I used to buy the cheap Woolworths brand walkmans and keep repairing them as they would break. Taught myself how to solder, change belts and follow circuit paths.
@Emillikestowrite 7 жыл бұрын
Informative and entertaining video as always. Would love to see more cassette and Walkman based videos, maybe the Walkman WM D6C or the TPS L2?
@jippalippa 7 жыл бұрын
Those 80s tech aesthetics. Electronics from the 70s and 80s are beautiful even to simply showcase
@JangleJoe 7 жыл бұрын
I have a WM-F65 Walkman that needs a new belt. Thanks for showing me what to expect inside, and a source for getting a new belt. AWESOME!
@pandapomkin 7 жыл бұрын
@techmoan This is why I prefer your channel to others, you are not an electronic engineer but a normal dude. Bravo!!! :)
@Crlarl 7 жыл бұрын
However, that is a remarkable player even when it's not fully operational. Can't win them all.
@peterunlustig719 7 жыл бұрын
3:40 ,,I f*cking get them all together "😂😁😂
@peterunlustig719 7 жыл бұрын
i know he didnt actually said that but it still sounds like he did...
@carsonking5549 7 жыл бұрын
I noticed as well. :)
@Techmoan 7 жыл бұрын
*...if I just show you here in my hand, if I can get them all together, there's four tiny little screws...*
@vulgarpestilence 7 жыл бұрын
Peter unlustig Alles soos?
@id104335409 7 жыл бұрын
if I can get them all together = I fucking get them all together LoL
@jameshughes1574 4 жыл бұрын
This is true, that eBay seller sent me belts to fix my machine, he is an A+ seller in my books for sure! And great quality belts.
@anthonyandthemachine 7 жыл бұрын
I bought a Walkman last year and had to take it apart to replace the belt as well. I thought I had fixed it but unfortunately it looked like one of the teeth on one of the little gears inside had broken off and it was jamming up. I was too afraid to take it apart even more. The radio worked and I didn't want to break that part. I'm pretty sure this channel was one of the reasons why I bought it even though it needed to be repaired. I think I bought the belts from the same eBay seller too.
@Mr.Unacceptable 7 жыл бұрын
Get a piece of double sided tape and put a piece on some cardboard. stick the screws to the tape and label them on the cardboard. If you need to wait for parts put some clear tape over the screws so they don't fall off. You also need some dental picks if you plan to do this more often.
@wojciechtechtips1602 7 жыл бұрын
YAY He finally uploaded a tape video!
@Milnoc 7 жыл бұрын
Can't remember how many times I've disassembled small devices like that when I was young! Surprisingly, I was able to reassemble most of them. I've learned that your success rate depended entirely on how well you managed your screws.
@fmtelevison 7 жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter what you show me , I just enjoy watching and learning 👍
@willstaffan3229 7 жыл бұрын
Now this is why youtube notifications were invented
@PardonJulianAssangeNow 7 жыл бұрын
Never clicked on a Techmoan video so fast
@edwardlimney5131 7 жыл бұрын
I just keep buying cassettes anywhere I can find them. Not just any ones mind you but unique styled cases from the 70s and of course the ones with music that I like. It has become quite the hobby for me and it is loads of fun searching through thrift stores for the gems👍
@AKAIGXF71 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent! BIG respect from Romania, Bucuresti! Laurentiu.
@izzieb 7 жыл бұрын
Techmoan video, instant like.
@the20thDoctor 7 жыл бұрын
Great video! I enjoy the haphazard repair. Fix something older!! Like, WAY OLDER! I dunno, doesn't matter, whatever you'd pick, doesn't matter if you fail either, that's just part of it; some times ya win, sometimes...anyway, I mean, I like the other videos you produce (I'll watch 'em all the way through), but I think I like these the best. That was more like my three cents, but hey...
@glonkfpv 7 жыл бұрын
These are quite informative, as I'm no 80's/90's kid, it helps me "catch up"
@Toadfox1 7 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite KZfaqr ever. I guess that's not saying much, since I don't watch many KZfaq channels at all, but this guy reminds me of myself if I had been born in Great Britain.
@Toadfox1 7 жыл бұрын
...and had money and time to mess with all these ancient electronics...
@MarshMellowChronic 7 жыл бұрын
it's a techmoan video, I press like before I've even watched it.
@Rovnijanko 7 жыл бұрын
7:36 Proud to be Slovak :D
@turczech 5 жыл бұрын
Já jsom Čech z Mostu ako Brno, čo bývá v Istanbule, ale taků radosť jsom dlho nemal, samý Polák, Čech, Juhoslávec a já neviem čo, ale keď Slovák, tak sa tak rozradostním.
@R0n8urgundy 7 жыл бұрын
I say this on every video.....MORE CONTENT PLEASE. Absolutely love this channel
@AshAndCamilleMiller 5 жыл бұрын
I remember I saved up 90$ in 1995 to buy the Sony recordingWalkman, it was a single deck but recorded fm/am and had a clip on stereo mic, I was in love, besides tape dubbing I have a full use boombox in hand, it even had a speaker in the door, it still works well.
@NaviRetlav 7 жыл бұрын
I'm looking for the walkman/portable cassette player that does have the manual TAPE SPEED, knob or slider. Can anyone share any models for me to check ? Both regular size cassettes and mini cassettes would be good, as many as you know ;)
@Da40kOrks 7 жыл бұрын
500+ views uploaded 4min ago...
@cuddles6938 7 жыл бұрын
Just conducting a POLL, is everyone else on You Tube only seeing 1 Advertisement on their favorite You Tuber channels? Every one I go to the last 2 days has been nothing but "WIX Where you can make your own website" commercial being played before any video I watch. I watched it completely so Tech Moan get's a few quid in the process.
@leopold7562 5 жыл бұрын
You're clearly better at this than I am. I bought a second hand CD Walkman in 1990 and it had some issues playing CDs, so I took it apart (making careful note of where everything went) and found the issue: the spiral cog which drove the lens was full of gunk, so I wiped off all that crap and regreased it, then put it all back together and... it wouldn't work at all, as it was getting no power from either the fancy clip-on battery pack or the AC adapter. I pulled it apart again and noticed I'd severed a small black wire, by pinching it in between the housing as I reassembled it. Given my soldering skills are non-existent and the wire had almost no slack in it for a bodged repair, I put it all back together again and dumped it.
@MaZe741 7 жыл бұрын
"In about 30 years, we will be doing the same with today's iPhones" - said nobody ever
@ethann_browne 7 жыл бұрын
*Sees new Techmoan video* *Clicks on it* *Likes video* *Watches video*
@thomascott7425 7 жыл бұрын
Hi, Tom from the USA. I have opened up more devices than I can remember and I would like to make a suggestion or two to you to make your reassembly a bit easier. One, find the British equivalent of Harbor Freight and purchase a magnetic parts dish. I have seen them come in round, kidney and square shapes. They make the possibility of accidentally nudging a conventional parts tray and sending parts flying virtually nil. Second, get a suitably sized piece of corrugated cardboard, make a rough sketch of the device in question on the cardboard and put the screws, nuts, etc. in their respective place on the cardboard. This eliminates the nagging question of "Now which screw goes where?". I hope that this helps. Keep up the good work, I love the puppets at the end. Bye.
@andrebartels1690 4 жыл бұрын
Ah, those were the days... Listening to music from the walkman while riding my bike, then suddenly dropping it out of my pocket onto the street, picking up the sad remains, superglueing taping fiddling it all back together at home... Learnt some lessons then.
@Cylume. 7 жыл бұрын
It's sad and ironic that the most problematic part that kills these machines is the simplest technology in them. The belt. It's too bad they weren't built with longevity in mind, perhaps with servos or direct drives for the moving parts.
@Techmoan 7 жыл бұрын
Almost all the Sony DD models (the direct drive ones) have broken as the centre plastic drive cog snaps due to a contraction of the plastic which surrounds a metal drive wheel. The plastic cog then has to be re-manufactured using epoxy resin which is a much more complicated process than swapping out a belt, so in the end the belt drive machines are a lot easier to repair and a better bet.
@nerd1000ify 7 жыл бұрын
If you really wanted them to last you could use metal gears on every part of the drive system. It'd be a bit noisy though, and the noise would only get worse when the grease dried out and turned into a crumbly mess ;)
@julosx 7 жыл бұрын
Or replace the belts with… chains, lol.
@foureyedchick 7 жыл бұрын
There is a term for that: It is called planned obsolescence.
@azzajohnson2123 6 жыл бұрын
Belts were cheap, win for the manufacturers! Belts were an easy replacement repair if something was to go wrong as TechMoan mentions, easier to repair than plastic parts. But belts also have and advantage over metal gears, they are soft and spongy, this stops the tapes from snapping or getting damaged, and at the time for most people the tapes were the most expensive component. The cost of your royalty paid music tapes , a hand full of them at the time would of cost more than the player compared to the belts. So it’s a good safety mechanism and increases the playability of the tapes. That would of been kept in mind, tape stress, so the tapes would not of got chewed (but sometimes still did with dirty heads and pinchers). Even own dubbed audio would of been more valuable than some rubber belts to most people.
@gijsyo 7 жыл бұрын
Portable piracy machine :)
@johnpruittpruitt4677 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir for this and All that you do! From America with love!Please say a prayer for us
@MrMakeDo 7 жыл бұрын
Another excellent and entertaining video about something I have no genuine interest in. I have no idea how you do it but I could watch you talk about the minutiae of analogue sound media for hours and not get bored.
@perlarsen3645 7 жыл бұрын
Hi. What's your background, and what do you do for a living? Any wife or kids?
@pegtooth2006 7 жыл бұрын
beautman1 ha ha ha... an ex girlfriend thought I had too much "sh!t" but never realised how much crap she had. lol. Techmoan, or Harrold, as his name truely is, is lucky his missus seems to share his interests. P.S. he is a Barista Trainer and travels Europe and as far as Antartica opening Starbucks.
@perlarsen3645 7 жыл бұрын
I was just wondering, how he got the time and money for all this? I'm happily married, and have 3 kids, and an old house, and I'll never find the time for making half the videos Harold makes.
@pegtooth2006 7 жыл бұрын
Per Larson on his patreon channel, Harold said he makes extra money selling haploid cells and blood.
@Fopenplop 7 жыл бұрын
blood for tape... techmoan's a real one
@AspenSnowfox 7 жыл бұрын
Great video, don't mean to be a hater - but maybe next time you can review some hand lotion?
@MarkAHoltz 7 жыл бұрын
techmoan - Next time you do a disassembly of such a device with such small screws, consider doing it over a magnetic pad with screws. You will be thankful for this.
@jonathanwatmough 6 жыл бұрын
Nice, I have a Aiwa JS HX101 (350 of your GBP back in the day I think) that no longer plays tapes, but radio and clock are just fine. Hoping it can be brought back to life.
@teacfan1080 7 жыл бұрын
Again, something I just learned from watching this video. Didn't know that a double-decker walkman ever existed! For 160 pounds, I wouldn't have been able to buy one in the mid-80's either. Now they needed to come out with a double CD walkman!
@roo_parfrey 5 жыл бұрын
I bought some belts off of the same guy to repair my Wm-Bf65. He's a life saver!
@AerikForager 7 жыл бұрын
Fixing electronics is a really fun hobby, I have found it quite satisfying over the years. :)
@laurentiucristian1 7 жыл бұрын
A new Techmoan video is what I need after 2 hours of learning for exams
@TheTacticalMess 5 жыл бұрын
Why is it that these older machines are so beautiful?
@itis3000 7 жыл бұрын
Sony has incredible technologies back in 80s. I hope to see more unique stuff like that on your channel. Thank you
@brokenscart7989 7 жыл бұрын
I think this is my favourite channel on KZfaq. Im overjoyed at every new video. Keep it up
@ikongod 7 жыл бұрын
I'm such a Sony fan boy. I enjoyed this episode and all the older tech videos you make very much. Thank you for making them for me.
@Runicen 7 жыл бұрын
Always fun to watch these tear-downs and repairs. Great video. Oh, minor tip about messing with belts: This is something I picked up on a lark when buying new belts for a full-size tape deck, but they make what I saw listed as a "belt tool," which has metal picks on either end. One is a hook for pulling belts off of wheels and the other is sort of "L" shaped for pushing the belts into place. Made the exchange considerably easier.
@niallhunter5045 7 жыл бұрын
Seeing a new vid on this channel always makes me smile!
@guruoo 3 жыл бұрын
I have one of these socked away in a sort of personal electronic museum collection (Couple drawers of a vintage filing cabinet) . I bought when it had just come out. Still works!
@James-cd8ih 7 жыл бұрын
This is quickly becoming my favorite youtube channel.
@descore7578 7 жыл бұрын
Love the videos where you take stuff apart. Don't worry, not everybody is an electronics engineer, but your videos show that some problems can be fixed with just basic mechanical knowledge and perseverance. Personally would have probably donated that particular walkman to Dr Walkman :)
@Ax3lN3ri 7 жыл бұрын
techmoan dont give up on this walkman finish it a great walkman see it working
@jamesleslie4833 6 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie, I would've loved being able to dub copies of my friends cassettes on to spot without having to borrow them. It'd be like "ooh, you just got the new Cure album, I want to hear it before I buy it, do you have an extra blank tape? Cool, BRB" instead of "hey dude, when you get a chance, can you make me a copy and bring it to school tomorrow?" At least in the 80's when dubbing copies was the thing, this would've been awesome (not for that price tag of course). As for taking it apart, you're a braver man than I am. Kudos as usual
@smartperson1 7 жыл бұрын
Based on the display in the background, you've gained exactly 600 subscribers since when you recorded this video. Congrats!
@thegardenofeatin5965 7 жыл бұрын
Neat. It's always fun to see the guts of old electronics.
@thatWalkingman2141 7 ай бұрын
Love this video! “I’ve never opened a Walkman before…” really got me😂
@stupask3834 7 жыл бұрын
I still have the Sharp model above the one you are featuring. Probably about 16 years old at the time. Many a lunch break spent in Birmingham's Virgin Mega Store checking out new tape's to buy. Sadly it stopped working a long time ago but i might check it out having watched this. Served me well on the train from Wolverhampton to Brum New Street and back for years. Good times. Thank's for the video.
@UNKNOWN-le2tu 5 жыл бұрын
i like your videos. you talk about different and off the wall types of media equipment. your viewers arent rude and they dont talk about how you are doing things wrong like they do in other audio videos. everyone seems to know more about sudio equipment than the owner of the equipment. i think they are jealous someone has nice stuff that they dont and wishes they had.