Fixing a cassette deck but Everything Goes Wrong...
A $15 cassette deck that died on me just after I spent $40 trying to get it working. Old tape recorders are known for mechanical failures, but on 1990s models like this Technics RS-TR180, they can sometimes have electronic failures, too.
Time flow:
0:00 Introduction
1:06 Repair cost
1:56 Replacing pinch rollers
3:23 Everything went wrong
6:14 The culprit?
7:15 Teardown
9:29 Fake restoration videos
10:50 Recommendations
#cassette #repair #fail