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Bose wave radio not playing discs, usually a case of replacing a few of the surface mounted electrolytics on the logic board, in fact I found enough that were way off value or were high esr to warrant replacing all of them. That wasn’t enough in this case though, I had to replace the laser […]

This was an interesting one, a Willsenton HiFi amp (made in China) brought in for fault diagnosis and some upgrades. The fault was a very intermittent pop in one speaker, this was traced to one of the four output valves and was left for the customer to sort out, but while I had it he

I’m working on this nice Sony system from the early 90’s at the moment, the faults found were the tape decks not working and the cd player wouldn’t read a disc. Starting on the tape deck it was the usual thing of the belts turning to goo, so a good clean up and new belts

Back to the Toshiba SR-V10, faults reported were that it doesn’t lift on and off the record cleanly and that it doesn’t track to the end of the record. Well, inside there somewhere is a mechanism that probably just needed a service, getting into it was another matter though, I couldn’t figure it out so

Yet another Sharp vertical turntable, don’t know what I’ve done to deserve these things, but seemingly I’m not the first person to look at it. I was told it had poor volume on the turntable but all I had was a nasty hum with some interference in the background. Looking at the motor control /

I didn’t hold much hope for this old Sony, it had been stored for years and was in a bit of a state, but in the end all it needed was a set of new belts on the tape decks plus a good clean of the heads and pinch rollers, some switch cleaner in the

Next up – a Samsung system, tape decks not working, that’s obviously going to be belts, in fact I could see the remains of them sitting on top of the cd mech…speaking of which…the tray isn’t loading fully and therefore not getting the laser into a position where it can read the disc, that’ll be

A Samsung cd / radio / cassette, it wouldn’t read a disc and tape 2 occasionally wouldn’t play a tape. I thought I’d start with the cd as it was the most likely to be unrepairable, which I initially thought it would be as the laser wasn’t readily available, by luck I found one in