I want someone who repair an old tape recorder

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By-the-way: Although these Philips audio sets have a fantastic sound and use a left and a right amplifier section for both Speakers, nowhere is the word Stereo written on these Boom Box audio sets. But because they do create some special spatial stereo sound they use these very flat ingenious designed stereo Potentiometers for the Volume adjustment. Which therefore needs 7 pins. Sadly replacing them is very though because finding a new one is not possible. And often the Volume knob doesn't work anymore because the 3 middle carbon resistors layers get deconnected from the outer pins 3 to 5.

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By-the-way dear Parasuraman: talking about cumbersome component systems.
You are right that they are sometimes badly soldered. Seems they were
using the wrong solderflux or with too much solder fluid on the Boards. Without cleaning them afterwards. And also the Stereo Potentiometers
for the Volume adjustment are often problematic. Even finding the right Service Manual for this AZ 1005 was not possible. But I found another
Philips Manual for the AZ 1009 that although uses other parts, still
uses the same 7 pins Stereo Potentiometer for the Volume Knob. If you
need this info see here: http://www.manualslib.com/download/1052127/
Philips-Az1009.html

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I can't speak for other people that use other Desolder Guns, Humberto. But I've tested mine for 4 to 5 hours or so without switching it off and it caused no problem at all!

Also the Tip is so good I even can use it to solder at the same time when I need it!

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Hakko makes good ones. I've been using mine for years and it works great. I can't imagine electronics without it. I can't vouch for other companies, but Hakko makes great de-soldering pumps.

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Thanks Yogesh. So true! Especially the previously mentioned DHL-
S-993A-Electric-Vacuum-Desoldering-Pump-Solder-Sucker-Gun-220V-90W
from Rose's Machine world is a fantastic new Tool!
Yesterday it only took me a couple of hours to easily disassemble all
components from a complete but discarded PC Monitor Board.
And the price - only about $87.51 dollar - was very affordable! and
includes Free Shipping.

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Glad that I could Help.
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The only solution that restored everything to the situation were everything worked again, was a Windows7 System Recovery to a previous date before the Prolific PL2303 was installed.
Windows and USB drivers are nothing but trouble when this Recovery would not have worked. I guess that is also why many people buy those very costly Apple Notebooks?
To be safe I will try to copy my working A-Men-Technology USB Driver to a backup file now. So this can be restored later without any System Recovery. (hopefully).

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