Man, I admire your patience. If that was me, that deck would’ve been hurled against the wall ages ago. Top work.

Excellent repair on an ‘impossible’ job! I really enjoyed this video. Full disclosure though, I was the Ebay seller. Why did I sell it for 2 quid? Because I wanted someone to fix it and allow it to live on and be enjoyed again. I’ve sold a few things in the last year (hifi music gear, vintage games, watches etc) thinking they may end up on one of the repairing stuff KZread channels I watch and the Philips did! This deck was part of my family's midi hifi system from the late 80s. I still have the FP440 linear tracking turntable which I really like and is still working (touching wood now) but keep your eye out on Ebay. BTW The deck didn’t have a plug as the whole system was powered via a 4 way junction box. Keep up the good work , Cheers

@pwrestoration

5 ай бұрын

Wah that's crazy that you sold it and you found the video! Well it's been funny as I went to give it away, messaged two people and it's still sat here. Seems like I can't give it away haha

3d printing might just be the greatest saviour of old broken decks

@Synthematix

6 ай бұрын

3Dprinting isnt quite there yet, maybe in about 5 years

@couzcouzify

6 ай бұрын

@@Synthematix maybe not but I think that is mainly a material question as the precision is definitely there on the newer machines.

@poofygoof

6 ай бұрын

@@Synthematix I wonder if the drawings for 3d printers could be adapted for CNC machines to build metal machined parts?

Tremendous work! Another one saved from the landfill! Great stuff.

Realy enjoyed this video. Was not feeling great, lifted my mood.

@pwrestoration

3 ай бұрын

Hey Myles thanks! If you're in the UK you can have the bloody thing because it's still sat here, nobody claimed it!

Great to see you got this to work!

Yes please, I would like this deck.

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

Julian, it's all yours buddy. Wing me an email to pw.watchmaking@gmail.com and I'll get the details sorted and in the post. @julianshaw3776

Glad to see there still are people with so much patience ánd skills at the same time! Keep up the good work👌

Philips truly had their own unique design to their mechanisms, that's for sure!

@pwrestoration

Ай бұрын

That's today's understatement!

Amazing work. Enjoyed every minute of it. Good that some “thinking out of the box” saved this from a landfill.

Fascinating repair, great work, and an ingenious repair.

I have to admire your dedication ..and you brought it back to life ..

I have big shaky hands and no patience, I marvel at your persistence! I have two NAD cassette decks with no belts as they perished I did try to mend them but I had to give up! They are sitting in my garage. I even asked my go to repair man who said he couldn’t be bothered !

@pwrestoration

Ай бұрын

Ah well if you want to move them on.. 🤠

Superb work saving the deck at least it will help someone starting out .

Very cool work!

Yes please, I would like this deck. Not for myself but for a friend who loves cassettes and making mix tapes but currently does not have a working deck. Excellent video as usual. Thanks mate.

Wunder, Paul. Nicely done!

Great video. I’m pleased you resurrected the deck with those 3d printed gears. I love the deck bit I’ve got about 8 wired up to my amp as it is!! Hopefully someone else in need of a deck will get it.

Love it. Nice work

Glad you managed to get this one sorted Paul, It’s always nice when something can be saved from Landfill, I really ought to look into purchasing a 3D Printer although I know absolutely nothing about them, I could also do with a Bench PSU, Hot Air Station, Microscope with Live Feed, Flir Cam & God only knows what else! 😂

@pwrestoration

Ай бұрын

Yes I'm in the market for an FLIR camera too, but they're a bit too pricey for the amount I think I'll use it.

Once again congrats on a top job

Huh, what a very skillful repair to this miracle complex steamengine.

LOL very cool! Amazing what you can do these days with 3d printers, a lot of patience and persistence.

Excellent repair, you have worked hard to get it to play. I've got a few cassette decks, so it can go to someone who doesn't have one, think that is a fair way to go with it.

Very nice work on a difficult machine. Greetings from Greece! I have enough decks, give it to somebody else!

I admire your perserverence!

Whoop whoop! Very nicely done 👌

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Yay! You did it! :)

Well done great perseverance on such a fiddly transport.

I need to start learning about 3D printing!!

Let me find my hat , so I can put it on and then take it off to you ! - even though it may be a cheap deck - it's still marvellous to see how much engineering and design it took. well done

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

It's really surprising how well engineered it both is and isn't at the same time. To think, an actual human designed it. I hope I never meet them 😅

Yes please i would like the Tape Deck, no three head decks here lol, my son who is 16 has just started his HI FI journey and bought an old 1999 Technics receiver amp for £2.34 which is working fine and is now looking to compliment it with a tape deck , really enjoyed watching this two parter and you did well to fix it, were in the UK too

Would love this little thing haha. Reminds me of the videos I used to watch with Ag3304 "River" on youtube. he used to say the gears went to cheese and the belts did a philips. Proper heath robinson mechanism going on there too! I think this would of blown his mind what you did there to resurrect it.

getting 3D printed parts for broken gears is beyond what i would've imagined for a Cassette Tape Deck repair...that'd go in the dustbin with anyone else...including me...amazing fix...and great research to find the online drawings etc...i'd be even more surprised if my Kenwood twin deck had that kind of effort given to it...i have enough trouble changing the belts...i did change a pinch roller on my Sharp portable though...i impressed myself...i didn't screw the mechanism up by fitting...the Sharp has all the functions except fast rewind...as it's twin deck too so it doesn't matter...the other slot works fully...and i've got a single deck Technics which is perfect...i quit Vinyl decades ago...i kept all my cassette tapes and still keep adding to the pile!

Beautiful.

La vidéo est cool 👍🏻 j'adore l'idée de réparé des vieilles pièces avec de l'impression 3d. Je n'avais jamais vu ça 😮 J'adorerais avoir ce deck il serait parfait dans ma petite collection 😅

I repaired 2 portable Philips recorders D6910 and D6920. Gears where like this deck. One 3D drawing found on the internet and the other I had to make myself. Decks now play fine again.

Yes please, I'd like this deck. :)

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

Good luck!

What a great job! Amazing work. 3D printing to the rescue. I can't beleive the patience you have. I would have thrown it in the dumpster. Good looking deck with a bit of a noisy transport. I'd love any deck you work on, but alas i'm in the US so no deck for me! Does it help i'm in "New" England?? As always, thanks for the interesting videos. You really have a talent for this work.

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I actually spent an hour or so off camera quieting the deck down with some lubrication. Lots of it, oiled and greased. It got pretty reasonable at the end compared to the initial test. I did read that Philips used that naff orange plastic for exactly that reason - quietness of the transport, which I thoight was interesting.

Wow! I have the exact same one, my one has a broken plastic pin on one of the gear's, I have hung onto it in the hopes that I will give it a go by trying to fix it but after watching this video...... Forget it! I just don't have the patience and determination like I used to.... Nope it's not going to happen...... Time to put it to one side and keep it around for parts possibly for something else that is at least easier to work on! It literally looked like you were working on a steam engine! It's cool, just not cool enough to go through all of that....

Awesome video! Great effort putting this deck in working condition. If it's not too hard for your video edit, next time put a direct hookup to the audio from the recorded tape vs the original part of the song from the KZread library for us the audiophiles to compare and enjoy. Cheers from Bulgaria! Love your content!

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

Will do, great idea !

It's really quite a handsome thing, all cleaned up! I'm thinking soft-touch controls must have been quite rare in the late 70s. Big respect for your patience and perseverance on this repair.

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

Haha they're not soft touch, theyre just designed to look like that for the discerning consumer!

@davidwood4303

6 ай бұрын

@@pwrestoration Ah, gotcha! I think it was the unusual layout of the controls that had me fooled. The mechanism is just as bonkers as you indicated. I have a Sony deck of the same vintage, and it's nothing like as insane as this.

Very good, loved watching you rebuild it

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

In Aus and I'd stuff it full of tannerite and detonate it. Cute little chassis though, be fun tontry to figure out how to put a better mechanism inside it.

Good job 👍 Recording quality is not fantastic, but at least it's working. Thanks for letting us hear the results 👍👍

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

I think it was your idea? Unless I'm mixed up!

that was some impressive ass work, if i lived in the UK id take it

a lot of technics panasonic decks allso suffer a plastic gear breaking, you could 3d print copys of them & sell them no doubt

Excellent work to save the machine.My NAK ZX7 has recently developed a ptoblem of the stand by light of stop button does not stop blinking so further function can not be started.Botg tge capstans play but. Thank you for reading.

@umeshupadhyay...

6 ай бұрын

Wish you a very happy New Year 2024 and more and more such excellent videos.

I thought exactly like you, a definite steam engine vibe going on there. I have a couple of 2 head Nakamichi decks but they both have problems with their motors. The idler wheels and all the set up are fine and, when they get going, they sound awesome but I really will have to get those motors replaced at some time. At least I still have my trusty JVC KD-V44 which just keeps on working and a few other decks that I bought on Tottenham Court Road in the 1980s which have been in a cupboard now for what seems like decades. I really should see if they still work. As the Marantz deck is basically a rebadged Philips deck, I wonder if it has perished cogs too.

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

Sometimes the reel motors like to develop dead spots. Easy to find new replacements though but it's a complete transport strip to get them out

This is a big problem with Philips drives from the 80s. The yellow gears are made of soft plastic to reduce the running noise. I have two Philips Roller and Roller2 recorders. It's the same with both. There's someone in Poland who makes exact copies of the gears. Without soft plastic it runs very loudly.

Yes please, I use to have one, still have some cassettes...

big up on the work, im not sure how long resin cogs will last, i wasnt convince that the 3d printers has the resolution but you proved it works. it would be nice to see how long it lasts from whoever gets the deck though.

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

I was thinking that, I really hope it doesn't just explode after a week!

Nice fix! I think you have closure issues 😁 PS. I don't want it. I've already got more decks than I have space for, thanks.

Hi, love your patience. As a Senior who has tried all this as a hobby, I would have consigned this deck to the bin a loooong time back. Question: what oil (in the syringe?) and grease do you use? I would love to know. Keep up the good work. Cheers

@pwrestoration

2 күн бұрын

The oil is called slug slime, but it's basically sewing machine oil. The grease is called molycote dx, any white lithium grease is good!

Yes please I would like this deck. My existing deck has recently failed, broken teeth.

I have this deck, in fact the whole system at my dad's house. It makes very good recordings, I'd only like the VU meters to have a bit more resolution. The turntable that comes with the system is linear tracking and fully automated btw....

@pwrestoration

5 ай бұрын

That's interesting! I absolute dread to think of the mechanism on that turntable 😅

Yes please. I would love this to listen to music on. I've just bough a personal cassette player and that is all I have. For some reason I'm fed up of Spotify on my Alexa's and want to listen to cassette and vinyls again.

This is awesome. I was hoping that this might be a potential solution and am really thrilled you are doing it. One thing though, please please please wear gloves when working with the printed items off of the printer.

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

You're the second person to say that. Duly noted.

@Infrared73

6 ай бұрын

@@pwrestoration I've done some research and it can be a bit scary.

A pure Victorian era cassette deck, LOL. DEFINITELY a deck to avoid!

@pwrestoration

3 ай бұрын

Difficult in all aspects 😅

The important thing for me is that it has saved from the scrap pile. I assume Phillips knew what they were doing using cogs made of plastic that would degrade over a short period of time compared to the other plastic cogs & parts.

I have my old school from the 80s boombox with a broken eject hook. Where should i look to find a replacement ?

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

Do you want to 3d print one? Either way have a search for the model number on Google and spares /.STL files (for 3d printing)

@CreeBreej

6 ай бұрын

@@pwrestoration Hi, thanks for the help. I have googled it but unable to find the cassette door latch for a Sharp WF-340E. Its a small latch on a spring that holds the tape door closed. I have recently serviced the player and removed the 35yr old cellotape that i used as teen to keep it closed. All that remains is this latch which i cant find and dont know how CAD draw.

18:40 it is like the con-rods on a steam locomotive. I've never seen anything like that before on a cassette transport. Why would a cassette even have such a contrivance, and what function does it serve exactly?

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

It's a cheap and cheerful way of the deck knowing when to cut power, when the tape ends or when you're rewinding and you get to the start. When that piston looking thing stops moving, it allows a small lever to seat itself and that cuts the power. Pretty foolproof and quite common for very cheap transports in the 80s

😁

I would have used light silicon grease or molly, as originally done by the manufacturer, not light oil, which will dry up, and is the wrong lubricant for the job. But anyway, excellent work!

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, which part do you mean? I can't remember what got oil and what got greased 😅

@tonep3168

6 ай бұрын

@@pwrestoration just the oil that you put on the the spindles for the gears. You could also reduce noise you could add a small amount of grease to the teeth of the cogs too. Thin machine oil is not meant for lubricating gears and cogs, unless they are submerged in it. Grease is the best, as it clings and stays where it is meant to be. If you noticed, on the original mechanism, Philips had used grease, and that had probably dried out after god knows how many years. But seriously good work with making the new cogs!

hi i have seen the bad gears in the RS 101 decks i have 3 of them note i have only seen one gear in 4 decks that are bad not it works out to get someone to make parts i have to pay out £500 in used tooling to turn of parts tools for hobbies note can cost big money i just made a new pcb for a tascam 38 so it can play the 3 speeds of tapes pcb way is not for new bee's like the new 3D files and the cost as well when i buy used gear it helps to look in to the deck to see if you have the right tools with the tascam 30 line i have worked on many over the years note i did used relays you can't go from rew to play mode i have put in safely logic to stop the pinch roller lifting up only lift in the stop when tape is not moving i worked on alot of tape decks 90% can be fixed never bin them

Hiya yes please I would like this Deck as mine doesn't work anymore it's not the belts as I've changed all of them but it still won't work

I would like you to give it to someone in need of a deck as I have several decks of my own.

Were made of cheese 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I'm a bit like you I will not give up until I've fixed whatever is wrong with my Deck

Horrible mechanism design, what a nightmare to work on!

Bit of over engineering here from Philips side isn't it?

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

It's both amazing and crap at the same time 😀

That is one complicated mechanism if I seen one. Dreadful. I wonder a bit why didn't you take the whole thing out, instead of cramming your hands between the case like that.

@pwrestoration

6 ай бұрын

It didn't come out all in one block, have a look at the first video - it's horrendous

I have absolutely NO interest in cassette players anymore. I don't even know how I got here lol. Bye!