Repairing a Sony cassette Walkman (or trying to)
393Watch as I attempt (and mostly fail) to restore two different Sony cassette Walkman models. A lot of things went wrong in this video, including the video shoot itself! But I just need to get it out there and move on to the next thing, and maybe it'll be a lesson for some people in what *not* to buy, because these gumstick Walkman models with the battery covers holding the battery are just bad news these days.
Minor thing but just to head off some comments: I meant "bit depth" when I said "bit rate" talking about the modern Walkman. Didn't even catch that in the edit.
One thing I didn't mention in the video - I had planned on capturing some audio direct from each of these, but by the time the shooting was done, literally all of my battery covers were broken. So at this point, I'm back to no working Walkmen. I do still hold out hope that there's a solution to this in the form of just finding 3D print files for the covers themselves, which can probably be printed in a way that makes them stronger than what's commercially available right now. (Cheap PLA filament isn't the best idea for a structural element like this, and that seems to be what the ones I've seen for sale/bought myself are made with.)