I thought it was the belt because the flywheel bounces when it stops on both. But the belts are new, shit the fly wheels are brand new. Everything looked fine when I inspected the parts, nothing seemed weird putting it back together. I cleaned the photoreceptors just in case because they both also randomly stop. Nothin’ 💀
sounds like maybe the autostop is triggering when it shouldn’t. i had a similar problem on a full size cassette deck but i never actually found out what caused it specifically. i just kept cleaning everything until eventually it worked correctly. MAYBE there’s a tried spring somewhere that’s finding resistance where there isn’t any?
it sucks that everything looks like it should work, but it’s doubly annoying that the problems are happening on a walkman. at least on a desktop cassette deck you can easily tear it down to parts and watch everything work in realtime. that’s a bit of an ask for anything miniaturized 😄
They are both WM-EX631’s (Japanese Purple). Thank you for the advice anyway. I think when I get the chance next I’ll do a deep clean and hopefully it works for me too. Because you are right these parts are so small and so compact to make the device thin that I find it not fun to work on. I do have a transparent case on both of them though so some things I can see. Thanks, again!
ah jeeze my FIRST thought was something like “wow those are crazy thin, i bet some tiny part could break in half and i’d have a hard time even knowing” hahahah
were i in your shoes, my next course of action would be fucken around in the service manual. sorry if i’m getting a little too invested in a stranger’s walkmen, i just have a passion for repairing dead tech!!
They’re pretty cool when they work! I only have two cause the first one started doing this and I asked the seller if he had any repair advice and he just sent me another one and apologized.
I thought it was the belt because the flywheel bounces when it stops on both. But the belts are new, shit the fly wheels are brand new. Everything looked fine when I inspected the parts, nothing seemed weird putting it back together. I cleaned the photoreceptors just in case because they both also randomly stop. Nothin’ 💀
sounds like maybe the autostop is triggering when it shouldn’t. i had a similar problem on a full size cassette deck but i never actually found out what caused it specifically. i just kept cleaning everything until eventually it worked correctly. MAYBE there’s a tried spring somewhere that’s finding resistance where there isn’t any?
it sucks that everything looks like it should work, but it’s doubly annoying that the problems are happening on a walkman. at least on a desktop cassette deck you can easily tear it down to parts and watch everything work in realtime. that’s a bit of an ask for anything miniaturized 😄
They are both WM-EX631’s (Japanese Purple). Thank you for the advice anyway. I think when I get the chance next I’ll do a deep clean and hopefully it works for me too. Because you are right these parts are so small and so compact to make the device thin that I find it not fun to work on. I do have a transparent case on both of them though so some things I can see. Thanks, again!
ah jeeze my FIRST thought was something like “wow those are crazy thin, i bet some tiny part could break in half and i’d have a hard time even knowing” hahahah
were i in your shoes, my next course of action would be fucken around in the service manual. sorry if i’m getting a little too invested in a stranger’s walkmen, i just have a passion for repairing dead tech!!
They’re pretty cool when they work! I only have two cause the first one started doing this and I asked the seller if he had any repair advice and he just sent me another one and apologized.