I didn't know the Wheely did this..... but mine is broken?

So my Dynasty Wheely has this strange switch next to the Tape A door. It shows an arrow pointing up and says MANUAL. When I push that switch my boombox just makes a strange hum and click noise for a second.

Well, the Matsuki Wheely is fully working so I pushed the switch I can see that the Tape A cassette head spins around!!!! Whoa, sweet! This must be a manual switch for the auto-reverse, right? Also, the head on the Dynasty isn't parallel with the path of the cassette tape. It's turned about 10* and that can't be right.


Does anyone know how I can fix it on my Dynasty? Any info is appreciated. Thanks!

Here is a youtube video I made. First boombox is the Matsuki, then I show what the Dynasty does:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph41ZDMzc2M

joe i would check the ribbon cables that go into the tape head assembly sometimes they break or come loose , not sure if that box has them but most with the heads that spin around do .

My guess is the Dynasty has a broken gear (gear driven head rotation) common fault on the Yamaha PC-8 and some Akai component boxes.

The centre of the gear usually cracks rather than a tooth so you might be able to glue it back together but I doubt it would last.

Could possibly be the wires to motor that spins head are broken or the motor itself is bad The wires that Floyd speak of also break but those are for the head itself. It's a real cool setup but the problems are the wires are not in a separate sleeve usually and tend to get hung up inside They are very tiny and brittle and very hard to resolder onto head.