Just finished a repair of a 1980’s vintage Aiwa cassette deck: Aiwa model 3500 (see https://www.vintagecassette.com/Aiwa/AD-3500), a 3-head model with decent performance for its era. The drive system was essentially nonfunctional. Why, you might ask, would I bother fixing such an old piece of electronics? The answer is that I needed a sound source for a “goose barker” to connect up to an amp and speakers to scare some persistent geese off my mother’s lawn, and a cassette deck was a pretty good choice, given that it was here and available. (more…)
Some smart Russians should hang Putin by his balls and then shoot him. Even better would be to smash his…