So I just recently got a Sony WM-EX631 Cassette Walkman from eBay. Its been pretty good the first month, had to replace the cassette door on the transparent case but other than that fine. Now, it seems there is an issue with the autostop/autoreverse function. The cassette was intermittently reversing to the opposite side at random, like in the middle of a song. Once I changed the mode to not reverse, now it just stops as soon as I hit play even mid tape. I’m wondering if the mechanism for detecting auto reversing needs attention. From what I’ve gathered they use some sort of transducers on a reflective gear to accomplish this. Is that information correct? If anyone knows anything I’d appreciate it.
Try a different tape. Maybe your tape is getting stuck.
Its all of them :\ even my test ones.
Ok one of the capstans is likely to be on a pivot, to detect tape tension for auto reverse. See if it is sticky etc. Try web search for this problem?
I did, even found a video of a teardown and asked questions. No responses. I have a service manual that I’m going through. I just thought I’d ask Lemmy, too. I’ll check the capstan when I’m off work and can take it apart. Thank you.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cassette+autoreverse+in+middle+of+tape
Gets some results
Thank you, most of these links are purple for me but I’ll keep looking.