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[Radio raheem]

yes, the front half of mine fell off my work bench and hit the concrete floor, the corners broke off and I fixed it by super gluing them back on. Was speaking to Frank ( hemiguy) about it and showed him the pics, he said it wouldn't be to hard to fix and blend in and paint, but for now I want to keep it original. I'm not looking to paint it and make it look better than it was when it was new.

it looks good from here, lol except for the missing side panels and 1 antenna

Nice thing was when I brought it back down here to Florida from my dad's house in NY, everyone was saying the surrounds would probably be shot but they were all perfect! It was stored in dad's basement for about 12 years in his cedar closet.

That must have been devostating tony all i know i just wanted to die when i lost my m90's so i take it she is all going now belts n all thanx for shairing

 

[SUCCESS]

Sometimes the internal pot gets very dirty .. that's enough to prevent the speed control working fine.
If you spray some contact cleaner through the hole, perhaps you have cleaned the internal pot rather than cleaning the brushes.
Motors are sealed, no chance of dexoit working inside unless you open it .


But with an aiwa (the only I have) one strange thing happened to me ....
The deck stop working from one day to another. The motor weas dead. It's strange, because the most comom failure mode is poor speed controling.
When I took the deck appart, I noticed that if I rotated the motor a little by hand, it started to work again.
Dependending at the point the where the motor was stoped it could start again or not.
That was caused by a bad soldering join in the rotor, which was working with 2 coils intead of three. If the motor stoped in the dead coil, it couldn't start again. It is moreless like the car engine and the cilinders.
In that case, motor is a servicable part. But you need to take apart the motor with extremely care to avoid damaging brushes.
It isn't easy.
I fixed mine without problems.

But if brushes are burned forget it. The same with the conmutator of the rotor.
Brushes most look STRAIGTH. If the are a bit rounded at the conmutator area, they are burned.
The things you can repair are the speed control board, brushcleaning if they are ok and soldering joints in the rotor.
If the motor is nearly dead but the speed control board is ok, you can replace only the motor with a similar one while keeping the speed control original (for those boxes that need strange motors other than the standard 2400 ones). At least the DC resistance would match ....

 

[Radio raheem]

Sometimes the internal pot gets very dirty .. that's enough to prevent the speed control working fine.
If you spray some contact cleaner through the hole, perhaps you have cleaned the internal pot rather than cleaning the brushes.
Motors are sealed, no chance of dexoit working inside unless you open it .


But with an aiwa (the only I have) one strange thing happened to me ....
The deck stop working from one day to another. The motor weas dead. It's strange, because the most comom failure mode is poor speed controling.
When I took the deck appart, I noticed that if I rotated the motor a little by hand, it started to work again.
Dependending at the point the where the motor was stoped it could start again or not.
That was caused by a bad soldering join in the rotor, which was working with 2 coils intead of three. If the motor stoped in the dead coil, it couldn't start again. It is moreless like the car engine and the cilinders.
In that case, motor is a servicable part. But you need to take apart the motor with extremely care to avoid damaging brushes.
It isn't easy.
I fixed mine without problems.

But if brushes are burned forget it. The same with the conmutator of the rotor.
Brushes most look STRAIGTH. If the are a bit rounded at the conmutator area, they are burned.
The things you can repair are the speed control board, brushcleaning if they are ok and soldering joints in the rotor.
If the motor is nearly dead but the speed control board is ok, you can replace only the motor with a similar one while keeping the speed control original (for those boxes that need strange motors other than the standard 2400 ones). At least the DC resistance would match ....

I sprayed about half a can in there it must have got to the brushes mind you im scared to turn it on again incase it dosen't work :'-(

 

[ahardb0dy]

It works at about 98%, the only thing I notice is sometimes when I play a tape it sounds ok at first than after a few seconds it gets muffled, if I press pause and than un-pause it sounds good again, I've cleaned the head and de-magnetized it, head may just be worn out it's 17 years old after all. No problems with radio, line in, tape speed, etc. just the muffled sound, an antenna and base ( don't know what happened to it), and the side panels. I don't try to make it into a show pc. I bought it to use it and I have.

 

[Radio raheem]

Yea tony my side trims are missing too no biggie though the box looks perfectly fine without them besides if i showed it to your avarage tom dick or harry they wouldn't know the diff..It sounds like to me you need a new pinch roller

 

[SUCCESS]

I dissasembled this motor for you ...

Note that the motor plastic cover which hold the brushes haven't got any holes.

But if works and it doesn't matter how the miracle occurred ....

Anyway ... a fresh motor is always a good news for a boombox, look there ...
Many motors waiting, just in case a further addition would need one.

 

[ahardb0dy]

Yea tony my side trims are missing too no biggie though the box looks perfectly fine without them besides if i showed it to your avarage tom dick or harry they wouldn't know the diff..It sounds like to me you need a new pinch roller

Pinch roller would cause that??

 

[Radio raheem]

Yea tony my side trims are missing too no biggie though the box looks perfectly fine without them besides if i showed it to your avarage tom dick or harry they wouldn't know the diff..It sounds like to me you need a new pinch roller

Pinch roller would cause that??

yup lad thats deffo the first thing i would check bro

 

[ahardb0dy]

what am I checking for??

 

[Radio raheem]

what am I checking for??

What do you mean? it's probbly the pinch roller the problem with the rollers the rubber goes hard and shiny and causes the tape to missalighn you could proobly get a new roller of a new box and thread the pin through

 

[ahardb0dy]

ok, wasn't sure what happens to them when they go bad, I'll check it out in a while