lol I'm glad you're the one working on these and not anybody else, my blood pressure shot up ten fold just looking at this
@Raptor50aus
3 жыл бұрын
I really admire your patience especially while recording this video. I am usually swearing etc alot when fixing this stuff. :)
@mrnmrn1
3 жыл бұрын
You've earned yourself a gynecologist licence with this one! Jeez, what a nightmare to work on. I always wanted one of these, now I don't anymore.
@memyname1771
3 жыл бұрын
Having broken that type connector myself, I am not surprised it is loose, and broken after watching the way you disassembled the DAT Walkman. It really is handy to have the repair manuals to simplify disassembly, repair, and reassembly.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
I didn't break it, it was already coming apart from the last person that was inside.
@sonyajones
3 жыл бұрын
Great job! Never had to work on one of those... Great video! Thank you.
@narutonish
3 жыл бұрын
I got into repairing stuff watching your videos. I have severals dat players tcd D7, D8 and D3 I repair them myself this is one of the worst to repair specially those 2 connections are a pain to put back together. Great video 📹!!!
@richardsmith2721
3 жыл бұрын
Gotta look for the duck stuck in it.
@electronicengineer
3 жыл бұрын
That's funny... I thought that there was a duck stuck inside of it also. Sounds like a quacking duck! Ha,ha,ha. Fred
@Raptor50aus
3 жыл бұрын
My Sony TCD-D10 Dat Walkman working great still. Love the old Dat gear.
@zanelibby8423
3 жыл бұрын
I just want to say your videos help me out and think you
@davidcollins1853
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this. Goes to show it's not always a happy ending. Great vid. Enjoyed it.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
Well it is for my TCDD3 as i brought it out of a deep sleep and now it is getting some TLC by running a bunch of tapes through it to keep everything running smoothly.
@revolvingtoto007
3 жыл бұрын
I still have two, same problem not opening sometimes, crap micro switches 😂 😂 again nice video 👍
@Raptor50aus
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for showing us the common issue with this model too.
@zx8401ztv
3 жыл бұрын
Dave, you manage to repair the majority of the stuff you look at. There will be no hopers, that owners tcdd3 is knackered, so don't worry about it.
@LibraAudioLaboratory
3 жыл бұрын
In your TCD-D3 the second one, you need to clean the two rotary encoder on the mechanism. Is very tedious to go in mechanic, and you need to remove the reel assy. A long work but's is work.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
That has been done. It just sticks, the door that is. If I tap the lid it once it has unloaded it opens every time.
@stpworld
3 жыл бұрын
Ive got a sony dtc 700 machine is that something that can be fixed it loads but wont spin does it have belts inside that could be changed? I have several people I trust that can send it away to or should I just get a replacement machine?
@Learnelectronics738
3 жыл бұрын
Hello brother I like your video Thank you
@vwestlife
3 жыл бұрын
How come all of your video thumbnails look corrupted?
@douglasallen9428
3 жыл бұрын
It looks like I’m not the only one who noticed that, too....
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
I don't do thumbnails. That is KZitem that does it. For whatever reason the still was grabbed during a transition.
@enzoperruccio
3 жыл бұрын
Doesn't look corrupted to me, unless it was changed since youtube gives you multiple auto generated thumbnails to choose from.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
@@enzoperruccio I upload at night and head to bed so I don't check them till the morning then fix bad ones.
@aarontrupiano9328
3 жыл бұрын
taking them apart is one thing but how were these things put together reliably when they were still making them? also he got this sent to sony and they actually looked at it? i thought they didn't service these anymore?
@mdzacharias
3 жыл бұрын
When you send stuff to Sony they often LIE about the nature of the problem, and suggest you have them scrap it. They come up with some part or other that is no longer available, and tell you that is what is wrong. I worked for a Sony authorized service center and we heard this many times.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
They are no different than anyone else. The smaller and complex the device the longer it takes to service. At 100 bucks an hour something like this is on economical to repair unless it's something extremely minor.
@mdzacharias
3 жыл бұрын
@@12voltvids The difference is the Sony people LIE. Seen it more than once. This is my experience with the Laredo Service Center, from which they truck stuff down to Mexico for the actual "repair".
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
@@mdzacharias Doesn't change the fact that someone had already been inside and the connector under the board was damaged. These things are a pain in the ass to work on to begin with and dealing with damage that others may have caused adds an unknown element to it.
@mdzacharias
3 жыл бұрын
@@12voltvids Yeah I admire you for even trying with that thing.
@nicmost3044
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for showing us the works of the TCD-D3. I still own one D7(not working) and I sold all but one of my working D8's. I would like to buy some parts for a D8/7 if you got them. I lent my D8 to a friend that has a music studio, and they lost my D8's Battery tray box, and the optical cable. Do you have any of these things 2nd hand??? Regards, Nick the MechaNICK, 5FM DJ and sound engineer....PS: I gave the vid a like.
@mauanderuk
3 жыл бұрын
Glad I sold mine it had all the accessories (remote and spdif).
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
I have the spdif, and car mounting bracket for mine. Works great. Did stick a couple of times when I first fired up but ran a few tapes through it and it is fine. The display el panel is out in mine. I was hoping this one would be junked but the guy wanted it back to sell for parts. Thinks someone is going to pay a few hundred for broken machines. Good luck. Back in the box and off it goes.
@ricfair9919
3 жыл бұрын
When you took the back off I said OMG. Looks like Sony never intended this item to be serviced.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
Nope.
@Maxwick.
2 жыл бұрын
There’s no sound at mine can you help ? I only hear when I put the headphones and another problem is the battery don’t work I have to keep it connected to the power source can you help ?
@geraldbowe4741
3 жыл бұрын
Hi I was wondering how I go by shipping something to u to look at and possibly fixing it
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
Contact me by email. My email is on my main youtube page.
@rogeriorogerio1007
3 жыл бұрын
Little things made in hell, a nightmare for anyone! Just to think in putting this back together makes me cry
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
I hear you. It is actually worse than a DV camcorder which is almost as small.
@svenschwingel8632
3 жыл бұрын
The D3 was a beautiful machine with that turquoise-colered LCD and it sounded awesome as a walkman due to a good headphone stage. But it suffered many problems, with that godforsaken Ni-Cd battery being the least of them. The device said "mobile use" but the fragile mechanism rather was like "please don't" lol
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
My survived in a car for years.
@theannoyedmrfloyd3998
3 жыл бұрын
I seem to remember a DAT forum website or somesuch of enthusiasts who know how to work on DAT units. It's worth trying to send it to someone there.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
Remember this format is completely obsolete now. No parts available. I don't spend much time on them because 9 out of 10 won't be fixable due to parts issues. Since i make nothing doing guestimates i look for the obvious and if nothing jumps out I walk away.
@svenschwingel8632
3 жыл бұрын
@@12voltvids in Europe, there has developed a whole business branch around DAT spares. People are manufacturing gears, pinch rollers and other parts to keep the decks running. But as soon as you need a replacement head drum or one of those drum or capstan motors, all you can hope for is to cannibalize from a defective sacrificial machine. And good luck getting a replacement for one of those 4-head-drums from the 87ES/2000ES or the studio PCM series. I have a PCM-2700 with 385 hours on its drum which I am guarding like the apple of my eye lol.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
@@svenschwingel8632 Yes I have a spare DA40 that I am hanging onto for parts.
@tacofortgens3471
24 күн бұрын
@@svenschwingel8632tape is obsolete
@brucebuckeye
3 жыл бұрын
You have waaaayy to much Patience! :)
@andynoon2584
3 жыл бұрын
A great shame you weren't able to fix it. But I understand that it was difficult to get into. I never got into DAT guess to late now.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
More like impossible.
@albertocabezas282
3 жыл бұрын
Oh. I bought this same model more than 20 years ago, until someone stole it. Great when It worked but a pain in the *ss when it started to fail.
@jeremytravis360
3 жыл бұрын
Sony was a company that was obsessed with miniaturisation. Sadly they didn't think about the engineers who had to fix them when they broke. When it came to stuff like this I would send it back to Sony to fix it or give a quote. That left them with the headache.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah that's exactly what I would do when these tiny little camcorders and really tiny electronic devices came in under warranty I just sent them to Sony and let them deal with it wasn't worth my time for what they paid me under warranty to fix this shit
@geraldbowe4741
3 жыл бұрын
And to see if u can do a video on it
@Jammerk40
3 жыл бұрын
You know what so sad about these machines is that they are put together by people getting paid very low wages! And it's all done an assembly line! One lady does one part and another and looking through big glasses just to put those little tiny ass screws in! I feel your patience wearing off sometime during the video! Boy no way I could do it!
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
I lose patience quickly when I know that someone else has been inside as there is usually a surprise. In this case a connector that the lock clip was broken and as soon as I released it the thing fell apart. We refer to those as a cracker jack unit (surprise inside) Had it been never touched I would have more confidence of a successful repair.
@BoB4jjjjs
3 жыл бұрын
The smaller things get the worse they are to fix!!
@walle637
3 жыл бұрын
Wait what? Sony's still servicing walkmans these days?
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
The note didn't say when they condemned it it could have been 20 years ago for all I know and have been sitting in a box all these years.
@valentinc22
3 жыл бұрын
All these SONY DAT walkmans suffer from hardened grease in the mechanism: it is a common and well known problem. In order to fix them, most of the mechanism needs to be relubricated. The idea is that without relubricating the mechanism, it's only going to be a temporary fix, like it seems to be in the second unit shown in the video. The caution on display is caused by the mechanism remaining stuck in one postion from the hardened grease (the mode switches are not the problem, although it may seem like it). That's why operating the unit a few times partially solves the problem. The TCD-D7 shown in an older video which failed to load the tape had the same hardened grease problem. Although Dave lubricated some parts, there were others stuck and only a full relubrication will solve the problem for good. kzitem.info/news/bejne/x3-czYqNk4GLlaA - this almost 5 hour video shows the refurbish process of these walkmans (the mechanism on the TCD-D3 is almost identical to the TCD-D7/D8). There are people who specialize in DAT repairs who can refurbish these units completely for a good price. There are others besides those mentioned in the links, but keep in mind these units need a full refurbish, otherwise they're never going to work properly in the long run. www.andyselectronicstuff.co.uk/sony_dat_recorder_repair_service.html www.paulcarrington.co.uk/dat-repair-example It is to be mentioned this comment is not a critical one, just offering people who want to repair these things some solutions. They are indeed very hard to repair and it's nothing wrong with Dave's decision not to go any further.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
If you watched my original TCDD3 that is what I did. Lubricated it and cleaned the eject switch. I then put the unit away and it has not been run for years. The mechanisms do get gummed up just like those old dual tape decks. This one that came in had already been to sony awhile back and they had condemmed it. Also the mechanism on it was turning freely as I did run it though its paces when it was apart. The big problem on it is the capstan motor connector on the bottom of the board is so bloody loose that the connector won't stay in even with the clip engaged, and the servo problem that sony already said it had. The guy sent me 2 VCRs along with it, and one of them has a bunch of broken plastic cams and gears as well. The 3rd hasn't been looked at yet.
@valentinc22
3 жыл бұрын
@@12voltvids I didn't say this unit in particular was repairable. I was just stating that in my opinion, someone who wants to collect something like this should have it completely serviced in order to enjoy it. Is it worth it ? It depends on how much one is willing to spend to have a perfectly working unit. But the ones specializing in these units charge something like 100$ for a complete refurbish. Depending on what the unit itself is worth, it may or may not be worth getting it repaired. I did watch the video when you serviced your unit. If you want, skip through the video I linked up above. It's made by a retired Sony engineer who knows all the problems with the little DAT walkmans. The fact that the mechanism is moving freely by hand is not relevant, as the motors have very low torque and even a little bit of drag can cause it not to work properly. Did successfully repair a D7 with sticky mechanism, so in my experience it can be done, but it requires a couple of hours of patience diassemblying the entire mechanism (every moving part must be cleaned and lubed with oil) and putting it back toghether. It's not an easy fix for sure, but after replacing the old grease with oil, the mechanism works perfectly. Again, I'm not judging your decision, just think that these DAT walkmans are worth being repaired, because they're a collector's item. Much more valuable than old camcorders in my opinion.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
@@valentinc22 Yes if there is not another underlying problem. I restored a portable Teac and of course my TCDD3 as well as a TCDD7. Had an 8 which won't spin the drum, and then this one which the owner indicated he didn't want to invest much as it had already been written off. The big problem with these units is the mechanisms stick. That is well known, and they will continue to stick even after oiled up if they are not used regularly. Even min e had some trouble the first time I fired it up in 2 years, but I have been running it all day now and it working fine now. Note to self, don't let it sit around. This is the biggest problem for all camcorders and vcrs and DAT machines and there is a warning in every owners manual recommending that the device needs to be run at least once a month to keep the mechanical parts in good order. Doesn't matter what it is. Your car is the same. If you let it sit eventually the engine will freeze and then you have a problem. Now you see I just reminded myself that I need to run a tape through my digital 8 cameras and mini DV cameras to keep them in good order as they have all been sitting for months untouched.
@valentinc22
3 жыл бұрын
@@12voltvids So true ! It is indeed very important to use these units regularly. But in your case it's probably more difficult given how many you have. But at least I get to see in your videos a lot of devices that I would never want to own anyway.
@12voltvids
3 жыл бұрын
@@valentinc22 There is the cool factor to the size of it. I like them to show off what was available, but you are right they need to be run from time to time or they will just deteriorate from disuse.
@enricoself2256
3 жыл бұрын
If you are a Sony service centre and receives a unit like that, what would you do ? technicians who know how to fix those walkmans are very likely retired, parts are unavailable, chances of a successful repair are slims and costs might be too much for the client who might just decide not to pay and leave the unit in your storage. It's plain simple, you come up with an excuse, say unit is not repairable and avoid yourself some headache. There is no point in bringing 15 or 20 years old devices to official service centre, in most cases they just refuse to do any work.
@Upgradeo8
3 жыл бұрын
Always keep soldering
@geraldbowe4741
3 жыл бұрын
Please get back to me
@pliedtka
3 жыл бұрын
Just a 'little' too small and complex to work on it. Feel sorry for assembly people
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