Faulty BANG & OLUFSEN BOOMBOX from eBay - Trying to FIX

Hi, in this video I try to repair a B&O Beosystem 10 purchased faulty on eBay. This was made between 1984 and 1991 and cost £249 back then.
The fault that was listed on eBay was that the sound fluctuates high and low.
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Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things. I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things, so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series. Many thanks, Vince.

[@lesrogers7310]

Can i suggest putting some KZbin Library Music on tape for demonstration purposes?

[@manueldi_77]

I also would suggest if possible and a good reference tape deck is available to record a 440 Hz test tone on that test tape. Playing this back in the machines to repair the speed can be adjusted very easily using a frequenze messaurement app on a mobile phone.

[@StezStixFix]

I'd love to see you rocking up at a building site with this on your shoulder, Vince! 😂 What a lovely looking item though, those Danes sure know how to create a beautiful design.

[@Mymatevince]

🤣🤣With a lob sided limp because of the weight of it. I don't know how they make there products so heavy!! You're right though Steve, when you think about the other Boomboxes from that era this one still looks good today 👍

[@thomasdiersch1181]

@@Mymatevince I think it was the speakers. they are more efficient? when they have larger metal pieces?

[@kylereese4822]

@@Mymatevince The black pinch roller looks like it`s gone egg shape on the tape deck... ??? i had the same problem on a Phillips unit when i was younger :):)

[@simonloreykjrsgaard2619]

@Lassi Kinnunen 81 luckily, they still sell and make TV's, speakers and headphones worth buying. Those laptop gimmicks is just selling points for the laptop manufacturers sadly

[@AppleOranges12]

That ferrite rod with coils around it is an AM tuner antenna.

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

thanks grandad

[@AppleOranges12]

@@Rose.Of.Hizaki Referring to someone as a granddad can cause offense, especially if the person on the receiving end is far from the truth.

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

@@AppleOranges12 thanks grandma

[@AppleOranges12]

@@Rose.Of.Hizaki As someone who mods and tinkers with old electronics, this hobby and knowledge of older technology don’t automatically turn me into geriatric. I very much enjoy my youth than you very much.

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

someone doesnt get that i meant it more out of respect for their knowledge rather than as a derogatory term. Grandfathers tend to be a great wealth of knowledge.

[@hifismiffy]

On the tape transport, the dark coloured head is the erase head and the next is the rec/playback haed. The chewed-up tape was probably causing your cassette tape to skew across the pinch roller and not moving smoothly over the heads causing those fluctuations in the sound. Nicely repaired, Sir !!

[@fijielectrical8323]

I’m so happy

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

Late 80s and early 90s B&O design is just so classy. We’ve got an early 90s BeoCentre and it still looks futuristic even today

[@j0hnf_uk]

I suspect you could have taken that tape wrapped around the pinch roller out without taking the machine apart, but that wouldn't have made a very interesting video! Getting that for 40 quid was a bargain. Those B&O machines were made to last, unlike the cheap Chinese ones that are made nowadays.

[@dash8brj]

Anything of that vintage was made to last. These days planned obselecence is the deal of the day - usually a product dies a day out of warranty.

[@mediocremagicman9105]

I love any fix where the problem is clear when you get it apart. Seeing the that little bit of tape on the wheel was so exciting.

[@WaffleClap]

Ahhhhh, spoilers!!

[@ClaudeSac]

@@WaffleClap don’t read the comments before watching the video if you don’t want ‘spoilers’.

[@mrjsv4935]

Nice fix :) The cracked flywheel brought in my mind a thing called diecast rot, if it's diecast metal? One of my model car suffered from it, altough this radio is much older. My modelcar was destroyed in less than ten years. Zinc pest is another name for the phenomena. Not sure though if the cracks at the flywheel are related to this or not.

[@TechGorilla1987]

I learned something today. I had heard of Tin Pest, but not Zinc Pest. That sent me down a rabbit-hole of learning which is always enjoyable to me.

[@mrjsv4935]

@@TechGorilla1987 KZbin & Internet at it's best, learning new things :) Have learned a lot from KZbin videos myself, for example from MyMateVince videos ;)

[@SimonNemeth]

That was my immediate thought. I collect toy steam engines of varying ages and zinc rot is one of the things to look out for on the cast parts (usually engine frames and flywheels coincidentally) particularly on older engines. It is nasty business especially when it's a structural part. It can write an engine off.

[@MrDuncl]

@@SimonNemeth Paya wheels were particularly bad, although I have seen an 00 locomotive where the frame bent like a Banana! The problem is caused by impurities in the Zinc and there is noting that can be done about it apart from the manufacturers using better quality Zinc.

[@SimonNemeth]

@@MrDuncl It tends to be lead impurities and it primarily happens in cast zinc made at a certain time. It doesn't tend to be an issue with modern casting.

[@Oldgamingfart]

I've seen capstan flywheels like that totally disintegrate. Something to do with the alloy (pot metal aka 'monkey metal'), and the dreaded 'zinc pest' or zinc rot. Dampness and high humidity can often trigger it..

[@home-space]

I have seen other zinc things develop hairline cracks as they age. Guessing it is atmospheric

[@Oldgamingfart]

@@home-space Yes I've seen old dinky toys become brittle and start falling to bits in a similar fashion. Such a shame when it's something collectable..

[@EmergencyChannel]

The metal alloys age at different rates so the zinc and magnesium separate and it disintegrates. A lot of old razors were made of pot metal.

[@BrendanDProductions]

If you use an fm transmitter you could broadcast public domain music to test radios and not have to worry about copyright.

[@gorjy9610]

and also maybe he can ask Techmoan for some high quality recorded tape with royalty free music

[@unitedfools3493]

You still have to worry about copyright. KZbin punishes the creator for copyright claims regardless of their validity and entities constantly make claims against public domain works. Try uploading some public domain content if you don't believe it.

[@evansdm2008]

B&O stuff is way ahead of it’s time style/design-wise.

[@soopafamicom]

The 'roller' that has the higher point to it that the belt goes on. The belt will try to move to the highest point of the roller as they go round. The strength of the belt will only allow it to go so far, as the belt wears slightly or stretches over time it will still be able to keep the same tension as it will ride higher.

[@BurningEmerald]

So happy to see another Bang And Olufsen video from you! Love all the ones you’ve done.

[@Mymatevince]

Thank you Josh, they are always interesting. I have another 2 to look at some time in the future 👍👍

[@ThinkingBetter]

Yeah, these products are timeless. I reworked some CX100 speakers for use in my garage recently with new surround foam and some Raspberry PI + 4 ch amp kit (HifiBerry - BeoCreate) available to make it into a modern WiFi/BT speaker. These >30 year old aluminum box speakers sound better than ever and look brand-new. I used to work at B&O in their R&D department.

[@jestempies]

A pulley is made convex (aka. a crowned pulley) to auto-center a belt. When a rubber belt strays to the side it stretches more on the side that's closer to the center (because the pulley is convex). That stretched side bends outward toward the center a little bit, and that extra bit that sticks out towards the center catches on the roller and pulls the whole belt with it.

[@markmiwurdz202]

I know you're trying your best with this piece of equipment. But I think that the words "Bang & Olufsen" and "Boombox" shouldn't be in the same sentence! I seem to remember that B&O had/have warrants from The Royal Court of Denmark. Keep up the good work sir!

[@RetroTechRepair]

Awesome repair Vince... I have many hours of footage of me failing to repair BoomBox's, I have never put one out on the channel. Those tuning dial cords always get me! Nice fix.

[@michaelthomas3646]

boy don't I remember the number of chewed up tapes, and once a machine does it once, then was forever chewing tapes until the broken bits were removed. As for a video showing it working or not, then it is better to watch right at the end, but think if I done this type of thing myself, then I would test it while still apart and off camera, unless something like building a pc as usually something like that requires you moving the pc from one place to another just to test if something is working.

[@ManojKumar-sx6vg]

28:30 Crowned Pulley. Its totally unintuitive behavior is well explained here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/in_Yq5xjn7KLpbs

[@technixbul]

The main head on this device is combo rec/play the other one is for Erasing only, and its Energized on rec only ;)

[@simonloreykjrsgaard2619]

So I could re record a tape if I wanted to with this unit?

[@technixbul]

@@simonloreykjrsgaard2619 Yes, wherever you find an erasing head in a tape player - it is re-recorder.

[@Jammerk40]

Another nice fix Vince! B&O were nice machines but expensive like Bose! I enjoyed this as well!

[@AlsCollectibles]

Awesome! Love boomboxes! I have a few myself.. thanks for sharing

[@KianaKaslana638]

4:42 dat sounds like a sick lo-fi beat ngl

[@patrickmorrissey2271]

The convex wheel on the motor is to help the belt center itself & run true... also might provide traction.... You see a "mild" convex shape in some bandsaw wheels also.... Great job on this one. Very nice....

[@drgusman]

The belt isn't in good condition, you can still ear the wobbling at the end of the video ;=)

[@slashtiger1]

Ya know, that may well be due to the abysmal quality of the tape used to test the thing. Doesn't have to be the belt at all...

[@derricktaffman3887]

Hi Vince. The black one is the erase head that is an electro magnet. The middle one is record playback head. And the one with the tape wrapped around it is the pinch roller. Hope that helps you.

[@HavingFunRepairs]

"Unless of course it's lined with lead on the inside". 😂🤣 Every time I watch your B&O repairs I can't help but admire the craftsmanship that goes into their products.

[@Michael.Huxley]

top left item wound in copper is the Ferrite Aeriel for AM reception

[@meknownothing]

I had a similar problem turn out to be a flat spot on the pinch wheel which on my first check I diagnosed a weak belt change that but it was the pinch wheel. Hope this may help with other tape decks. Thank for the videos.

[@pcno2832]

4:50 I have to admit that I'm surprised that removing the tape from around the pinch roller actually fixed this problem, since I didn't hear any wow&flutter, only volume changes. I was wondering if the supply reel was getting ahead of the capstan, causing the tape to loose contact with the heads, and that might still have been the cause of the volume changes, but I'm mystified that there were not also severe pitch changes. Anyway, I picked up a 120V, no-LW version of this model at a pawn shop for $10 and the last time I tried it, one speaker had cut out. I've been dreading taking it apart and this video confirmed all of my apprehensions about its serviceability, but thanks for the tour of its innards; at least now I know what I'm up against. Though this B&O model seems to have a few "audiophile" features lacking in most '80s boomboxes, and very smooth sound, the single tone control (despite B&O's fancy name for it) would be a major disappointment in this price range; the model is gimmicky and not very practical as a portable. Ironically, it's so heavy that I fear that some of the flimsier plastic assemblies would be totally destroyed if it ever took a fall. It's a nice little piece of history, but I'm glad I didn't pay the original $300 price.

[@donello430]

i recently got one of these (for a lot more than $10!!!) and I'm experiencing a similar problem - the sound balance might be normal for a few seconds but will roll to either the left or right speaker only. If I hit the 'AM' button, it seems to correct the wiring and be balanced again, but only for a moment. Very interested if you tried to fix yours and how it went?!

[@michaelhuey4187]

Way to go Vince! You are slowly building up the high end B&O stereo system you always wanted when you were younger but could not afford it. 👍

[@johnr6168]

You were fortunate in that it came apart so easily. Bang & Olufsen were renowned for making some of their products very difficult to get into. It wasn't unusual for screws to be hidden under sections of 'stick on' costmetics' etc. It was partly to disuade engineers/technicians who weren't B&O's agents from doing repairs.

[@Daijyobanai]

Funny you should say that, because I'm trying to remove the back panel on mine right now, and it will not come apart. I've removed the 3 screws, but something is attached at the top, where the aerial end clips into place. It feels like a screw but I can't see anything there. Pulling at it bends the back panel, which will break if I lever it. All i want to do is see if the belt is gone because the take up reel isn't turning. And I can't find anywhere that sells belts for this model either :(((

[@andytipping70]

bit of a design issue vince - if it's hung on the wall, how are you supposed to plug the external speakers in as the jacks are on the back?

[@organfairy]

It was not completely flat against the wall. B&O made a wall bracket for this model that had a couple of centimeters distance. But still some plugs were too long.

[@Daijyobanai]

@@organfairy It uses 2 pin din plugs the same as B&O speakers of the era, so they should have clearance, albeit of about -1mm, ie very bent cables :p

[@GianmarioScotti]

14:37 - that's a ferrite antenna and it is used for MW and LW reception.

[@FixiousMaximus]

That mic quality was better than expected. Could even get that cover 3D printed if you really wanted to.

[@jbouvrais]

Awesome work as usual. It’s always a delight to watch you fix things! Makes me enjoy my coffee breaks even more.

[@stormrider01]

For Bang & Olufsen the sound quality is pritty bad.

[@peha524]

Difficult to tell. The sound you hear are not better than the microphone, speaker and/or soundcard you are using. Even if it is high-end all way through.

[@markbriscoe8526]

I suspect it could be a little piece of tape that got caught in the pinchroller hence the dipping of sound there was no need to open the whole mechanism just get a pair of tweezers and pull out the piece of tape job done

[@pcno2832]

The tape door come off it you very carefully pull the slow-open tabs inward, but you only see a little less than half the pinch roller. That might be just enough access to get all the little bits out, or maybe not.

[@mikebell2112]

The box says "I'm wall hung!"

[@Godzilla941]

It really bugs me to see die-cast flywheels go bad like that (I think some mechanisms used by Nakamichi had that problem, too). I wonder how many high-end units got condemned and trashed over something a novice machinist could reproduce with a few bucks of aluminum, a tabletop hobby lathe and a small press to swap the capstan into the new flywheel...

[@isallah1kafir196]

*Brillant* that wheel on the motor will not allow the belt from falling off.

[@JonPadfield]

It’s nice to see you add another B&O to your collection Vince. B&O is one of those things that’s really worth buying broken and fixing up as they’re quite pricey when sold working. Nice one.

[@Daijyobanai]

Yes these are £200 - £400 on eBay (asking prices, selling prices on hifishark are £150 - 250). But they're nicer to have and use than to flip.

[@nathegotule284]

Hard job2do bruzz? Yur2 Kool... Man,, U done it magic Peace n kindness down under Sydney Australia.... 😁👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@nathegotule284]

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[@mortlach186]

Great video I own one of these . I wish I knew how to attach photos to a KZbin comment. One really cool thing that you sort of glossed over is the fact it's a portable receiver. I've plugged in my 4004 and 8002 table and CX40 speakers for a full B&O system.

[@thek-9sdoghouse602]

You know Vince, you could make a discord server, that way, everyone could help you easily with any problems. ( don’t know how to use it? Ask your son maybe :) )

[@justcallme00oogy]

I suddenly have the urge to elect Vince as king.... How strange

[@Asriazh]

Me too O_O; Subliminal messages maybe? Naah.. can't be...

[@Phil-Sands]

The brown head is the erase head.

[@epaliotisvip9663]

Pretty sure that one was quite the... banger back on its day.

[@anhminh1286]

Can you fix Beosound Century (2000) cassette deck. When i push PLAY button. Nothing happened.

[@andersmmvfc.8376]

Am I'm allowed to tell you your better than ever? This was a fine radio/boombox if it wasn't for the cover missing it looks fairly mint! Thank you!

[@Mymatevince]

🤣🤣 You are Anders👍 It is in very good condition considering the age.

[@richarddavey9547]

Unfortunately this was the start of a slippery slope for B&O , basically charging top money for fancy outer casing and design but fitting other manufacturers inners , making a lot of their stuff unreliable , like the VCRs which if I remember correctly where Hitachi inners. I remember taking the back off a 21"MX4000 TV (£1500) in the 90s only to be confronted with a £300 Thompson chassis !!! Much better when they made All their own stuff . Great videos 👍👍

[@thomasvlaskampiii6850]

Haynes Manuals are... Special sometimes... For a 1994 Subaru Impreza, the instructions were as such. Removal of starter. 1) Remove the 3 bolts. 2) Installation is the reverse of removal. No pictures, no nothing. Just those two helpful instructions

[@GadgetUK164]

Awesome =D Don't be affraid to press that cotton bud onto the read / write and erase heads btw! Should get a squeakey sound as you move the cotton bud ;)

[@Mymatevince]

🤣🤣 You could tell I was nervously doing it. Hope you're keeping well Chris 👍

[@orangie8426]

You are like the mister Rogers of component repairs... I love watching your vids..

[@ManojKumar-sx6vg]

Thanks for the video. I wanted to see the inside of a Beosystem 10 for long, but never expected a video so clear and this long. Probably this is the most detailed and the best videographed boombox repair video that I have ever seen. Every tiny bit perfectly zoomed, exposed from correct angle, correct lighting, in crystal clear high definition video. And the icing on the cake is that this video is created by a person who did not know the difference between Erase and Play/Record heads of a boombox at the time he did it. Hats off to you!

[@bubbadoodah]

Bang & Olufsen premiumed themselves out of the component business. Now, you can only purchase speakers.

[@Foltl]

The copyright restrictions on KZbin are ridiculous! KZbin has such poor audio quality - compared to competitors, they end up in last place. Nobody can do anything with the audio garbage anyway. you should sue youtube for poor audio quality! (acoustic bodily harm ;-)

[@youtubeviewer7077]

Just an idea, but if you're worried about copyright and/or have bad FM signal in your house, you could get one of those little FM transmitters used to listen to ipods/phones/etc on car radios that don't have an aux-in/bluetooth. That way you could play one of your videos or other non-copyrighted content for testing FM radio.

[@SoRTs6233]

Have to agree with 'hifismiffy'! I learned to fix these as an apprentice, and I always found them scary! Jammed tape would have caused the roller to oscillate causing the tape to ride up the pinch roller. Great fix,. Cheers

[@solojinglesradio1]

Design is like Telefunken PCR 20 but slimmer

[@Marie579]

It’s a known fact that vintage B&O always required patience and a knack to assemble it. Hence why so many “repairer’s” wanted nothing to do with repairing the brand, it takes time to get to know the products from Denmark , try fitting the radio tuner pcb on beocenter 2200 2100 4000 thats fun if you’ve never done one before.

[@dliriumtrigger]

Fur Elise is public domain. Although specific live performances may be subject to DMCA.

[@pcno2832]

27:30 That flywheel looks like "pot metal", which is analogous to American cheese or to Spam; it's made from leftover pieces of non-ferrous metals melted together in a "pot" and is known for cracking to pieces as it ages because the different metals separate into veins and contract at different rates as they harden. Once in a while, the castings would fly apart violently, sending dangerous projectiles in various directions. Pot metal was common in 1920s-1930s radios and car door handles made up to the 1980s. I'm a little surprised to see it in something this new.

[@pcno2832]

23:50 I believe the brown head is the erase head, which carries the bias frequency; on cheaper decks, it's sometimes just a permanent magnet. Sometimes the play and record heads are one in the same; I think there are also decks where the record head is separate, but in the same case as the play head.

[@RoughJustice2k18]

The cheaper decks are much simpler in design but just as painful to service when they fail due to the flimsy parts their mechanisms use. Especially models which used spring-loaded idler assemblies - these had a tendency to fall apart or break without warning, leaving the user without FF, REW or PLAY function (because the idler was responsible for tape take-up and engaged the reel spindles in front when a key was pressed). I've replaced countless idlers in several budget boomboxes because they were too small to fix and those who owned them at the time wanted reliability. Great when they work which is not often, and some of them aren't very good to record on. Quality is poor. I now refuse to own or service these types of decks because of the above-mentioned.

[@StealthFB22]

Watching you play with all the rollers and buttons was very amusing hahaha! Also, I never could of thought that 80’s technology could be sooo complicated and tricky!

[@davidwilson1188]

Hi Vince I have a asus laptop with no display (screen or via hdmi out) powers on cpu gets warm, wondered if u want a look? Not bothered if you don't fix it.. break it further or fix it and keep it.. also anyone reading comments know what the fix might be? I've tried the disconnect battery method etc and that's about where skills end hence why I'd be happy for Vince to take it off me.

[@gillyboyrg2]

Would you be interested in looking at a karmon harmon avr 635, i turned it on one day and there is no sound but it was working fine when last used, it's 16 years old and cost around $1,300 when it was new! I'm based in Berkshire, UK.

[@Scotty_in_Ohio]

Did anyone else think when Vince removed the tape pieces - "I wonder WHY those bits of cassette tape were eaten in the first place?"

[@sandroilsardo9443]

Not necessarily the machine, and unlike a Bang and Olufsen. Most likely a 120min cassette, they were always breaking when fast forwarding and rewinding due to the thinness of the tape or a low quality / damaged cassette.

[@jussikuusela7345]

There were many cassettes (including pre-recorded music albums) that had at least one somewhat cattiwompous (?) hub... if the takeup hub was warped, the "cake" of tape collected on it would at some point jam against the cassette shell and prevent further takeup. This was worsened with some decks having originally weak (or weakened by age) takeup torque. I used to buy cheap cassettes that were totally useless for recording, but which by luck contained at least one sufficiently staright hub each, then performed "organ transplantation" with them. I also saved the shells because they could be the last resort to fix a cassette that had a warped shell. Most prerecorded cassettes were glued together, but I carefully cracked them open and applied drops of glue in the corners upon reassembly. I have no recollection of failed shell/hub exchange repairs, but in some cases the tape was already torn. Some of those could be spliced with adhesive tape, it would be playable but not flawless.

[@ewoutbuhler5217]

@@jussikuusela7345 Agree, I had many tapes with one of the reels jammed, mostly due to high temps when keeping them on the dashboard. Also, have tapes around in the car without case, the reels would losen up and that really increased the change of tape being dragged into the player machanism. Looking back, actually tapes and records and all that stuff were really charming but streaming nowadays is much more efficient, even de CD at it's introduction was like a leap in user experience.

[@1MajorTom]

Bang and Olufsen TV is Philips TV with B and O's design, and as you have seen yourself, the different B and O's radios are different brands in B and O's design at expensive prices he he.

[@arthureverett8220]

The black head is the erase head

[@mogensranneries7517]

I do admire your courage when digging into technology that you do not have basic knowledge about - e.g. when you are wondering about the function of the ferrite rod (the internal AM antenna) and your guesses on which head is doing what. You will learn as you go. But what troubles me when watching this, is that you do not consider why there is old tape wound around the pinch roller. The reason is probably too low tension on the take-up reel, causing "tape salad". A proper repair would have included test and adjustment of the take-up tension to avoid the problem to re-occur.

[@ellensburgamplifier]

Now that is my style of board to work on. I was trying to see how they are driving those 4-ohm speakers which look to be the 20 pin IC under the heatsink. Great job Vince and keep them coming!

[@Turniplord]

3:10 - that’s what she said

[@mavs44s]

Vince you have now been seen! Around the 8 min mark. If you ever wonder what The voice looks like. You can catch his reflection. 😂 not a bad looking fellow 👍

[@timd1833]

14:37 That's a rod antenna for AM (medium wave) radio reception. It's directional.

[@mikehibbett3301]

While looking at it disassembled, it's amazing to think about the amount of assembly effort that would have gone in to this product. Those trimmers, coils would all have to be tuned manually, never mind all the hand soldering.

[@looklookerlooking]

I played around with one of those boxes back in the 80's when they first came out at a high-end electronics shop where I would purchase TEAC reel to reel cassettes tapes. I walked away unimpressed by it's sound and features . You could purchase a better sounding portable , that was bigger and cheaper . Nevertheless I'm glad to see some of them are still around today.

[@HuntersMoon78]

Nice fix Vince, would never have expected some chewed up tape on the pinch roller to screw the tape up

[@OntologicalQuandry]

Removing the tape from the roller put me in mind of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. I expected you to be like him extracting the grubs from the creature, "Not all at once. Not instantly, to be sure."

[@creepyname]

I want to call Bullshit on your recent megadrive repair and how you seemed lost opening it, i remember one of the first vids of yours i saw you fixed a motherboard from one... ooh...

[@nigelfranklin3845]

Great, Another enjoyable video. I'm always amazed at why some hi fi equipment is so heavy.

[@markkinnon4866]

No doubt someone else will have commented the same, but the coils you were wary of disturbing with the fine wires coming off are the MW and LW antennae.

[@pi6706]

A Bang & Olufsen cassette player that does not have full logic control? That’s surprising

[@barbgrajewski9696]

I have one of these! My issue with it is that the cassette tape door doesn't open, smoothly or fully. Wonder how to examine/clean/grease those hinges and the opening mechanism.

[@crowbarviking3890]

For the radio testing, why not get a small radio emitter like you can get for your car that work on 12V. You can put a USB stick into them and in a 2m radius or so one can receive their radio signal on other devices. Means you need a 12V adapter too, but at least you get a good signal AND you do not need to worry about copyrighted material being played :) They come as cheap as 13 GBP on amazon.

[@NOWThatsRichy]

I have several of those small FM transmitters & by experimenting with connecting various external Aerials to the right point, it's surprising how far the signal will travel, it will easily cover my whole house, garden & beyond! I have tried connecting a Belkin model to my rooftop FM antenna & could receive the signal several streets away! (Make sure to set the transmitter output frequency to one well away from local broadcast stations, to prevent annoying your neighbours radio listening!)

[@piratestreasure2009]

You could've also clean the pinch roller. When there is tape there, maybe the roller is dirty and will chew tapes. Or maybe it is weared out and needs replacement.

[@JessicaFEREM]

honestly I'd consider sticking a bluetooth cassette in there and using it like a bluetooth speaker, maybe even sticking a switch somewhere to turn off the tape motor to save electricity and reduce motor noise and improve battery life if I wanted to use batteries. I wonder what it would take to mod it like that.

[@ladronsiman1471]

Well you must not be a professional ...If you see segments of tape ..There is a reason why this happened ..And you have to investigate if the tape supply reel and the other have proper speed and tension.

[@JacGoudsmit]

My OCD is definitely not liking those speakers mounted at different heights.

[@jwilko7998]

The black ferrite rod with the copper wire coils wrapped around is the Mw and Lw Ariel. Nice work Vince.

[@taketimeout2share]

That is a pretty cheap/basic tape mechanism, no? For such an expensive product I would have thought it would be more sophisticated.

[@jeangade5809]

35:24 missing solder point, 4 wifi antenna. Go DENMARK.

[@fyjkuiper]

Made in Japan...

[@jonahjones1283]

good one!!! back in the day B&O was THE name for high end stereo and i wanted so badly 🙂

[@myfunnyval1]

I used to love doing things like this, now I just enjoy watching others do it. Great video!

[@Daijyobanai]

21:32 there's a face looking right at the camera and saying "please fix me, I want to live".

[@jamesheal4535]

Because you managed to fix it, the person who sold it to you, may ask for it back 😛

[@dDoOyYoOuUtTuUbBeE]

Brushing without vacuuming doesn't do much, just spreading the dust around.

[@ugo470]

Hi, the brown head in cassete department is for deletion of track and silver head have 4 cables 2 of them are for reading from the cassette and other two are for recording

[@wrestlefanman1202]

15:38 that’s what she said!

[@mrsillywalk]

I have an ITT KB which is similar. A quality radio. Quit heavy too.