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Darth Plasma

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Hi, I have an Aiwa NSX-5200 Stereo Shelf System with a dual cassette deck. I am unsure on how long ago since the last time a cassette tape was played on the system, but when i opened it up there was lots of dust, hair, and other dirt. I fully cleaned it out by following guides on YouTube and websites, and got both decks fully clean. Both players still eat tapes. I repeated the cleaning process several times including letting the rollers, etc. remain wet from alcohol cleaning, and also letting them completely dry. I have searched across the internet for a continuous player that eats tapes after cleaning, and i am unsure whether my player is actually broken or not. There is a playback deck and a recording/playback deck. Both eat tapes. Does anyone have any suggestions or solutions towards my problem? Thanks.
 
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I've seen 1970s music centres on e-Bay for really low prices and they had the facility to play vinyl and cassettes as well as FM radio - the latest big thing back then.

There's no reason to go for duplicates in another format if you can make the existing ones work. Up until a couple of years back I had 8Track Cartidges I bought for a car that had a Cartridge player in the Eighties.
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Thinking laterally, where have those tapes been stored all the time they weren't in use? If the machine is as clean as it should be, it must be the media.

I don't even know if you can buy tapes but if you can, record something off the radio and see if gets eaten before you get to play it back.

If you can't get it to work, buy a small, modern cassette player which has a USB connection to your PC so you can still play your old tapes. I paid about £25 for one such and it made my wife very happy. Priceless!
 
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You still using cassette tapes? Strewth!

I've taken the cassette player off my stereo component system because it was never used and made the system higher than it needed to be. All my tapes ended up in the bin 10 years ago at least!

Get a life and abandon old technology, you'll have more time to relax or do other stuff instead of wasting time trying to stop that dinosaur eating tapes.
 
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I may ditch the tape deck on the machine, or just try a couple more times to see if it works. I do have a smaller player i could use, but i was looking at something big with stereo speakers and all that could give me more of an "experience" while playing the tapes. I'll be sure to find a way somehow, thanks for your answer!

 
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I've seen 1970s music centres on e-Bay for really low prices and they had the facility to play vinyl and cassettes as well as FM radio - the latest big thing back then.

There's no reason to go for duplicates in another format if you can make the existing ones work. Up until a couple of years back I had 8Track Cartidges I bought for a car that had a Cartridge player in the Eighties.
 
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