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Looks like Im gonna go out and buy up some old walkmans from the thrift store this weekend. I gotta try to make one of these....Sooooooo cool!

Basically what happened was I had the control pcb unmounted from the frame it was screwed to. It was sitting at an angle like in the picture i have posted. The left underside bottom of the pcb was more or less touching the metal and that's what it shorted out on. I think this didn't have...

I found a few more small white spots starting from the bottom right corner of the LCD So....from the right side bottom of the LCD counting back here are the locations.... And from the top side right counting back about 30 pins....

The white spots are located under the rows of pins under the LCD display. Not sure if this indicates that anything got damaged. But it does look suspect. Here are some pics...

Ok. I followed your instructions. Getting a reading of around 8.61 between pins 1&2 on p128 and 8.53 between terminal 77&152 at either end of the LCD. Here is a pic of the p128 and the terminals of the LCD...

Thanks Again! I don't have it opened up right now, but will most likely do that tommorow or sometime over the weekend. Here is an older picture that I posted earlier of the control board. It's not a good close up. I will post another pic later. The big screen is the assembly that you are talking...

The female connectors are on the rec/pc pcb. I think the smaller of the two is the one that might be losing it's grip.

:eek:DEOXIT!!!:eek: To the rescue????? I decided to give the pins of the card connector on the mother board a good swabbing with long wooden swabs and deoxit. I did this for the so call bad cards. And.....Blamo! I'm getting consistent sound now on tracks 11 and 7. Who knows though. It could...

Okay.... repair attempt #3 Tamiya Epoxy putty. Filled it in real good and it's pretty much rock hard now. So I can't see it breaking in any way. The only thing that could happen, is it could just drop out in one piece if it doesn't adhere to the part properly.

Thanks for the repair suggestions guys. I'm gonna try the epoxy putty this time. It turns into a solid piece when dry and can be carved with an exato knife to shape it. I'm just hoping it sticks and doesn't just drop out. I will post a pic when it has cured. I got the putty at local bolt and...

Repair attempt #2

The good and the bad.......... The good. I got the eject mechanism part mostly straight. With a vice and some heat as mentioned earlier. Thanks. I also added some aluminium putty to the part for added strength. The part is constantly under tension from a bigger sized spring. Here it is with the...

Okay. Another problem has popped up. I still haven't got to the eject button problem yet, but there is a problem with the eject function. I fixed the cam that moves the door up and down, but there is a problem that happens every now and then. When closing the door, it sometimes stalls and then...

It's ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It works! Cool. I got the idler tire in the mail today. Intalled and put in a tape......first off, about the tapes I have. The guy I got the machine from said he had a bunch of tapes. New and used. When I went to pick up the Akai, he only had one used one on hand. He...

I just installed the new battery. I did it the way deslog mentioned earlier in the thread. I isolated it from the pcb and used a cable organizer to clip it close to the opening on the back. Just a precaution I guess. It would probably take forever for it to leak again. Just a question.....would...

Thanks! Here is a picture of what the buttons look like under the panel. I think this one was probably getting slammed at some point. I still have to try and reflow the 4 solder joints on the underside.

Just gonna update a little.... When I got this Akai, I had a problem with the tape door going up and down on it's own. and At the top of it's movement, it would make a clicking sound over and over. Well, for anyone out ther who has this problem, I think I found the cause. First off, I feel like...

To start off....I'm not gonna do a detailed "story" thread, as I'm just not good at it and I don't know what I'm doing most of the time.:facepalm: After seeing Sweetbeats thread on his recently aquired Akai's, curiousity got the best of me and I located one not too far from me and I got it on a...

That's cool! Is it tube? I almost pulled the trigger on something even more antique-y I saw at an antique market. A webster wire recorder. It just looked so cool. I got home and checked some youtube videos and I really thought the lo-fi sound of it was really cool. I wish I went back and...

Here is a tales out FFW pack.. Not perfect.