Hello All
I'm on my third one of these, I'd hate to add up how much I've spent thus far to try and get a fully working CFS-99, but it's such a beautiful looking boombox I just keep trying. The first one I bought got fixed by my repairer, but it came back with the same issue my new one has where the left channel isn't coming through on tape. When I quizzed my repairer about this he replied "That's interesting.." and thats as far as I got. The less said about my second CFS-99 the better.
This new one is in beautiful condiiton, and when I turned her on the same thing happened: radio and line in are perfect stereo, but left channel on tape isn't there.
Has anyone experienced this before?
Now, theres a couple of things I wanted to get down first: on the one that came back from the repairers I cleaned absolutely everything and no love.
This new one I've not opened up yet, and don't really want to until I've got a good idea of what I'm looking for. I've cleaned the usual suspects on the old one, record switch, mode selector, headphone socket, etc.
One issue that's interesting, is that the old one didn't have any action on the left needle meter when I played tape, this new one has an unmoving left needle regardless of mode. So, I was thinking the first thing to do would be to swap out the new dodgy needle meter with one of the ones I know works. This will then at least tell me if theres any action at that stage.
This is more of a feeling out post, and I apologise for being a bit vague, but I wanted to put it out there before I get into it.
I've got lots of spare bits from my other ones, but if anyone's had any previous experience or ideas about this I'd be most grateful.
Thanks rockers.
Rock On.
I'm on my third one of these, I'd hate to add up how much I've spent thus far to try and get a fully working CFS-99, but it's such a beautiful looking boombox I just keep trying. The first one I bought got fixed by my repairer, but it came back with the same issue my new one has where the left channel isn't coming through on tape. When I quizzed my repairer about this he replied "That's interesting.." and thats as far as I got. The less said about my second CFS-99 the better.
This new one is in beautiful condiiton, and when I turned her on the same thing happened: radio and line in are perfect stereo, but left channel on tape isn't there.
Has anyone experienced this before?
Now, theres a couple of things I wanted to get down first: on the one that came back from the repairers I cleaned absolutely everything and no love.
This new one I've not opened up yet, and don't really want to until I've got a good idea of what I'm looking for. I've cleaned the usual suspects on the old one, record switch, mode selector, headphone socket, etc.
One issue that's interesting, is that the old one didn't have any action on the left needle meter when I played tape, this new one has an unmoving left needle regardless of mode. So, I was thinking the first thing to do would be to swap out the new dodgy needle meter with one of the ones I know works. This will then at least tell me if theres any action at that stage.
This is more of a feeling out post, and I apologise for being a bit vague, but I wanted to put it out there before I get into it.
I've got lots of spare bits from my other ones, but if anyone's had any previous experience or ideas about this I'd be most grateful.
Thanks rockers.
Rock On.