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GE 3-5025A Tape Recorder Repair and Restore

Jestine Yong — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:03:35 +0000

Old tape decks and recorders come my way once in while either by someone giving them to me or by purchasing them at thrift stores or Flea markets. I purchased this one at a thrift store for a few dollars. When powering on the unit to test i.e. found a […]

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Futile Attempt To Revive A Micro Controller In YAMAHA Tape Deck Model K-340

Jestine Yong — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 09:43:04 +0000

After experiencing a lot of successful repairs, here is a pathetic story in which this lovely Yamaha Tape Deck could not be saved! As all attempts failed and a service manual could not be provided by the customer, though available on payment basis, I had to reluctantly pack up […]

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Do You Have A Gear Wheel Broken Technics Rs-TR333 Tape Deck? Here Is the Solution!

Jestine Yong — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 23:52:07 +0000

This is a wonder story of restoring a costly deck of Technics, Model No. RS-TR333. This belonged to a person, whom I got acquainted while travelling in train. He brought the set from Bangalore (about 500 Kms away from my home) on 31st March, 2017 with the complaint that Deck 2 was not playing in […]

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Defective And Discontinued Microcontroller Functions Bypassed In Bang & Olufsen Tape Deck

Jestine Yong — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 06:14:51 +0000

This has a very long story behind it, but I would make it as brief as possible, without compromising on essential detailing of trouble shooting and rectification done. This belonged to a customer who brought it to me stating that the uController IC TMP8355P-7924 was reported to be […]

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Restored Another Antique National RX-C37 Tape Recorder

Jestine Yong — Fri, 28 May 2021 08:26:08 +0000

This set belonged to a widow, who requested me to restore it so that she could play some old cassettes in which recordings were done many years back. She wanted to copy these to CDs or USBs. I picked it up from her home on my return from […]

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Putting Double Belt Resolved A Perennial Problem In NAD6100 Tape Deck

Jestine Yong — Mon, 17 May 2021 08:51:34 +0000

This set keeps visiting me at-least twice in an year for tape dragging and auto stopping, each time of which, what I did was replacing the belt. But this time I decided to put an end to this. I pulled out the mechanism and put two flat belts on it. […]

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Restoring Two Antique SONY Tape Recorders

Jestine Yong — Thu, 06 May 2021 23:07:02 +0000

These two antique tape recorders belonged to my close friend and an erstwhile film music director. He was responsible for taking me to this level of servicing and clientele. He chanced to meet me through another common friend more than a decade ago. From then on, he turned […]

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Revived Antique Tape Recorder Ferguson FTR-100

Jestine Yong — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 04:30:52 +0000

This tape recorder was brought to me by my techie friend, who tried his best to revive. The complaint was no sound output, even though the tape mechanism worked very well in all the modes! It belonged to the father of a customer, who wanted to reuse it in fond […]

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Modifying BPL M9903-Two-In-One To House USB Unit In Place Of Tape

Jestine Yong — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:48:40 +0000

This two-in-one of BPL make was brought to me for servicing stating that the sound was intermittent and there were a lot of crackling noises. Working on a set made by BPL, in which I worked for almost 20 years, brought nostalgic memories and I was all […]

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Fully Leaked Capacitors Found In Nakamichi Tape Deck

Jestine Yong — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:05:52 +0000

This antique tape deck was brought to me with the complaint that it was erratic and all controls work intermittently. Even though the Deck was neat and had not collected much dirt inside, which I saw after opening, I just did a routine cleaning up. Downloaded a […]

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