Got my second RS-466S on Jan 28th, 2016. I got it locally from an older gentleman. It is from his father's collection. The box has never seen outside his cabinet. All it had was some dust and not a single scratch. The chrome on handle looked like new after cleaning.
This is one of my favorite boxes from the late 70s. After using mono tape players when I saw this for first time I was speechless!
It is so hard to believe the flawless performance of this beautiful radio cassette recorder. I still remember the red sticker on the cassette door reading 7.2Watts. In 1978 I had Panasonic 5310 and that was the big thing! After seeing RS-466 I desperately wanted this stereo cassette recorder.
The radio was working and cassette was not. Once you remove the screws at the back it separates and opens up to 3 parts. The front face with speakers, the center area with all boards and cassette mechanism and the rear panel. to I took it all apart and gave a nice bath to plastic front and rear faces of it. I had to disconnect the speakers for washing the face panel.
It was easy to remove the cassette section and replace belts. I had to lightly sand the pinch roller to make it a little rough. The REW, PLAY, FF all work very nice. All idler wheels remained very good after say 38 years. I cleaned all switches with deoxit. The tone control board come our with the two left and right volume controllers and bass and treble controller. Once you remove two screws it is easy to clean them with deoxit. The bass and treble had some static and that was fixed by the cleaning. I also cleaned the FM, AM band switch and the long record bar. It is a little tricky to get the record lever in the small slot of the long record switch. That was the only hard part while putting things back.
Now everything works like new. The dual cone speakers are amazing! I still cannot believe how good they sound. radio reception is crystal clear and recording is outstanding!
I call RS-466 a LITTLE GIANT! It is an awesome box to have.
Pictures to follow....
This is one of my favorite boxes from the late 70s. After using mono tape players when I saw this for first time I was speechless!
It is so hard to believe the flawless performance of this beautiful radio cassette recorder. I still remember the red sticker on the cassette door reading 7.2Watts. In 1978 I had Panasonic 5310 and that was the big thing! After seeing RS-466 I desperately wanted this stereo cassette recorder.
The radio was working and cassette was not. Once you remove the screws at the back it separates and opens up to 3 parts. The front face with speakers, the center area with all boards and cassette mechanism and the rear panel. to I took it all apart and gave a nice bath to plastic front and rear faces of it. I had to disconnect the speakers for washing the face panel.
It was easy to remove the cassette section and replace belts. I had to lightly sand the pinch roller to make it a little rough. The REW, PLAY, FF all work very nice. All idler wheels remained very good after say 38 years. I cleaned all switches with deoxit. The tone control board come our with the two left and right volume controllers and bass and treble controller. Once you remove two screws it is easy to clean them with deoxit. The bass and treble had some static and that was fixed by the cleaning. I also cleaned the FM, AM band switch and the long record bar. It is a little tricky to get the record lever in the small slot of the long record switch. That was the only hard part while putting things back.
Now everything works like new. The dual cone speakers are amazing! I still cannot believe how good they sound. radio reception is crystal clear and recording is outstanding!
I call RS-466 a LITTLE GIANT! It is an awesome box to have.
Pictures to follow....
