RECORDING AND MIC WORKS TOO
there was a little plastic piece that was rattling around the battery compartment that i cant figure out where it used to go, but everythings functioning just fine except for autostop on the b deck and it occurs to me just now that the piece has grooves that autostop bits usually have so i think its probably for that. oh well, i got it all back together and im not taking it back apart again lol. recording wasnt working because the lever that pushes the record switch had bent out of place a bit and only half pressed it so i just bent it back and now it works great. i couldnt get the radio tuners string back into place and shredded it trying so this just doesnt have a working radio anymore unless theres a signal broadcasting on whatever frequency its set at
all in all: fantastic little machine. i adore it. the botfly boombox era is upon us
turns out i am taking it back apart!! it was incredibly foolish to trust the old ff/rw belt. at least it snapped instead of going goo
been posting a thread about this on mastodon. the lil grooved thing was for the pause mechanism and i managed to improvise a cap to keep it attached by poking a hole thru a couple bits of rubber belt and very carefully supergluing them onto the post lol. so pause works now !
