CONION C-100F
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Gluecifer
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Congratulations on scoring a wonderful Conion!! The facsia for the door should be an easy hack! Let me know if you need any help, I fully made up mine from scratch, which was a lot more painful than what you need to do.
This is The Legend of the Mission Conion Deck Doors.
Many moons ago an urban legend began. So many Conion's missing their doors, but why?? Was it a manufacturing defect? Was it for more street cred? Did aliens abduct them all?? The answer soon became apparent...
When I was first on a quest for the answer one of the stories I read the most was of the deck doors being taken off by the owners; intentionally!! Whyfore I mused? The reason being that when a C-100 was being used in breakdance street battles having the door removed allowed for easier access to the bottom tape so there was as little break in the music as possible when switching from tape to tape or deck to deck. This seemed highly plausible! Afterall, we all love to think our radios were used in breakin' battles in past and this just gives them more street cred. After reading more collaborative stories, I settled on this as the truth behind the myth.
Alas, a year or so later, more evidcence came to pass. Less exciting evidence. Evidence that disproved the above theory entirely. It would seem that Conion in their R&D had not fully allowed for one critical issue in their design of the bottom deck, an issue that would prove to be the C-100's undoing! The problem was that when the blaster was running on batteries and the bottom deck was in use and the batteries died the entire mechanism would lock up and not reset to a neutral position. Hence locking the door in place for ETERNITY. The only solution was to take out a trusty screwdriver and prise the door off to get the tape out. And, in the process I would assume, breaking the door and negating the possibility of it being reattached.
Our poor Conions are rarely found intact for this reason. A mere oversight by Coney Onkyo allowing for many traumatic incidences of door-loss over the decades.
This is, to my knowledge, the real explanation behind the mystery of the missing C-100 deck doors.
Rock On.
This is The Legend of the Mission Conion Deck Doors.
Many moons ago an urban legend began. So many Conion's missing their doors, but why?? Was it a manufacturing defect? Was it for more street cred? Did aliens abduct them all?? The answer soon became apparent...
When I was first on a quest for the answer one of the stories I read the most was of the deck doors being taken off by the owners; intentionally!! Whyfore I mused? The reason being that when a C-100 was being used in breakdance street battles having the door removed allowed for easier access to the bottom tape so there was as little break in the music as possible when switching from tape to tape or deck to deck. This seemed highly plausible! Afterall, we all love to think our radios were used in breakin' battles in past and this just gives them more street cred. After reading more collaborative stories, I settled on this as the truth behind the myth.
Alas, a year or so later, more evidcence came to pass. Less exciting evidence. Evidence that disproved the above theory entirely. It would seem that Conion in their R&D had not fully allowed for one critical issue in their design of the bottom deck, an issue that would prove to be the C-100's undoing! The problem was that when the blaster was running on batteries and the bottom deck was in use and the batteries died the entire mechanism would lock up and not reset to a neutral position. Hence locking the door in place for ETERNITY. The only solution was to take out a trusty screwdriver and prise the door off to get the tape out. And, in the process I would assume, breaking the door and negating the possibility of it being reattached.
Our poor Conions are rarely found intact for this reason. A mere oversight by Coney Onkyo allowing for many traumatic incidences of door-loss over the decades.
This is, to my knowledge, the real explanation behind the mystery of the missing C-100 deck doors.
Rock On.
redbenjoe
I Am Legend
totally agree with rick --
thats the only logical explanation for the missing doors-
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i am surprised that many other box models still mostly
have their doors --because - when a belt breaks -when the box
is in the play mode --the heads stay in the up position-
and the ejects dont work :annoyed:
thats the only logical explanation for the missing doors-
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i am surprised that many other box models still mostly
have their doors --because - when a belt breaks -when the box
is in the play mode --the heads stay in the up position-
and the ejects dont work :annoyed:
Gluecifer said:
When that happens, what happens when you put new batteries in? Also, can't the deck be reset by removing the back cover and manually resetting the deck?
redbenjoe said:i am surprised that many other box models still mostly
have their doors --because - when a belt breaks -when the box
is in the play mode --the heads stay in the up position-
and the ejects dont work :annoyed:
Because that is ONLY a problem with servo assist type mechanisms, that means 80+% of the boxes are immune to this problem.
However, I think one of the most notorious examples of those models affected by this phenomenon might be the Pioneers. When those break, you can't even disassemble the box to reset the mechanism, because the deck door needs to be open to do that. Yet the door won't open because it won't reset. That's a catch 22.
Gluecifer
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We're talking mostly about non-blastafficionado's here Norm, back in those days attempting to tinker with the technology inside a boombox would be the equivalent of the average computer user attempting kernel programming in unix. The casual user wants their tape out now! I've got a feeling even plugging it back into the mains once the deck is locked doesn't unlock it either. If there was a simple solution I think the missing deck doors would be far less common.
From memory I'm pretty sure I saw something in the manual, or posted from the manual, that when this occurs to take it to a service repairman too.
Rock On.
From memory I'm pretty sure I saw something in the manual, or posted from the manual, that when this occurs to take it to a service repairman too.
Rock On.
I have to disagree on the part of taking the back cover off. When I put some fresh D's in the box it let out a rebel yell heard around the block!! The tape motor was running for some reason with the power switch off!! It sounded horrible 
! The radio was playing at half volume and scared the hell out of me!! Pulled out the D's and unscrewed the back off, safely moved the back cover away without disconnecting the wires and placed the D's back in (with the volume down!) and watched the motor in vain spin. Grabbed a small screw driver and was able to stop the motor from spinning. Sadly saw the belts in her in pieces too but it's ok cuz I know I'll get her up and running soon! 
! The radio was playing at half volume and scared the hell out of me!! Pulled out the D's and unscrewed the back off, safely moved the back cover away without disconnecting the wires and placed the D's back in (with the volume down!) and watched the motor in vain spin. Grabbed a small screw driver and was able to stop the motor from spinning. Sadly saw the belts in her in pieces too but it's ok cuz I know I'll get her up and running soon! 
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