Is it worth getting my old cassette decks repaired? | Headphone Reviews and Discussion - Head-Fi.org

Registered User · Dec 27, 2011 at 10:40 PM

I suppose the obvious answer is 'no', but it seems such a shame to throw them out. I have 3 half-decent decks (a Sony TC-K590 and 2 Yamaha KX-500A decks) that all have the same problem: when I push play, the heads engage; nothing happens; they stay engaged for a couple of seconds, then they disengage. So, in other words, they don't work; they don't play.

Does this sounds like a simple repair? Is it something I could do myself (I'm not great with this sort of stuff, but I can solder guitar pickups and pots, etc).
All 3 decks FF and RR fine.
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Are they toast? Thanks.

I can get decent used decks on Ebay for under $100, so I obviously wouldn't wanna spend that much fixing my current decks. Thanks, Newbie

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