Sony

I had this brought in by a friend of mine who seems to have an endless supply of old HiFi, the decks had several problem, the first of which was they didn’t seem to register a tape being present. The first and most obvious place to look for this was the leaf switches at the […]

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

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

I didn’t have a lot of hope for this Hi-Fi as it had just come from a few decades in someone’s loft. The owner said the turntable was not turning, my immediate thought was a seized motor or platter. Getting it on the bench I was able to rule out a seized platter as it

This tape deck was delivered to me complete with a set of belts, it seemed the owner had tried himself and found it too difficult to do, normally I would turn something away that had been tampered with but I didn’t want to see something so nice end up in the bin, so I took