Purchased a Panasonic RX-5050 as a plan B to sacrifice it for the volume pot if needed for my M90. It was sold as a parts box for cheap. Well it came today and I opened it up. Very dirty but the part I wanted it for (volume potentiometer for my M90) worked flawlessly and still has a nice stiff "feel" to the rotation. Tape player didn't really work and a slider knob was missing along with the rewind spindle on the tape mech. At this point I could envision my M90 singing like new again and me tossing this junker in the trash after the donor part was taken out.
The first thing I do to every box I get is take it apart because I don't want the possibility of "bugs" in my home. I get it apart. No bugs...That's good. Oh I see why the tape deck isn't working. 2 minutes later for that repair and a azimuth screw turn later the tape deck is singing and sounds good again. Hmm. I say to myself. Balance control isn't working. Psst..with my tuner cleaner. 2 twists of the balance control and that's back in business.
........you see where this is going?
So I felt Pity on this Panny and the next thing I know it's in the bathtub getting a scrub down. Got it back together and I have started to warm up to the little Panny. Yeah it's nothing compared to the M90 but for it's size with the Ambience selector switch on it really has surprised me.
I know. I have a soft heart but everything I touched on this neglected box just fell into place and wanted to work again. It was like the Librarian that once the glasses are off and the hair is down wasn't actually hard to deal with and look at. It just needed someone who cared
Been listening to this RX all evening. Here she is all cleaned up. Everything works now except Rewind.
If forced I'll sacrifice it for the M90 but my plan A is to use the volume pot on the Chassis coming from Chronic. If that works heck I'll keep this box and take it to the beach and such. If anyone has one of these and wants to mail the rewind spindle shaft, clip and gear to me heck I'll fix that too while I'm at it...lol
The first thing I do to every box I get is take it apart because I don't want the possibility of "bugs" in my home. I get it apart. No bugs...That's good. Oh I see why the tape deck isn't working. 2 minutes later for that repair and a azimuth screw turn later the tape deck is singing and sounds good again. Hmm. I say to myself. Balance control isn't working. Psst..with my tuner cleaner. 2 twists of the balance control and that's back in business.
........you see where this is going?
So I felt Pity on this Panny and the next thing I know it's in the bathtub getting a scrub down. Got it back together and I have started to warm up to the little Panny. Yeah it's nothing compared to the M90 but for it's size with the Ambience selector switch on it really has surprised me.
I know. I have a soft heart but everything I touched on this neglected box just fell into place and wanted to work again. It was like the Librarian that once the glasses are off and the hair is down wasn't actually hard to deal with and look at. It just needed someone who cared
Been listening to this RX all evening. Here she is all cleaned up. Everything works now except Rewind.
If forced I'll sacrifice it for the M90 but my plan A is to use the volume pot on the Chassis coming from Chronic. If that works heck I'll keep this box and take it to the beach and such. If anyone has one of these and wants to mail the rewind spindle shaft, clip and gear to me heck I'll fix that too while I'm at it...lol
No box gets left behind. 
