Owner's & Service Manuals for Vintage Stereo Equipment

[Sweat One]

https://www.hifiengine.com/

https://www.vinylengine.com/

These sites contain thousands of downloadable owner's and service manuals for stereo receivers, tape decks, reel to reels, cd players, boomboxes, minidisc players, DATs, etc. Vinyl engine is the sister site for turntables.

Click on 'library' to search by brand or click 'database' to search by category.
And there's a search function. Bookmark these!

[Lou-E]

Nice, used this site to fix my dads old record player when he gave it to me, had to figure out why the platter wouldnt come off and a manual on there showed that I needed to take an unseen screw out to lift it out

[Sweat One]

Damn, I guess there are some record players in there.

[zendanisdead]

i've got a question

does anyone on this forum have real experience working on turntables, tape decks, receivers, etc?

[Lou-E]

Do you mean general usage or repairing said things.

[zendanisdead]

Do you mean general usage or repairing said things.

servicing, repairs, refurbishing

[ghost bazz]

Great find & share!

[ghost bazz]

Do you mean general usage or repairing said things.

servicing, repairs, refurbishing

You’re probably going to need to b more specific. I bet more than half the cats on here have cracked open a piece of hardware at some point to upgrade or attempt a fix.

Personally, I feel I’m at the point where I need to learn how to solder a circuit board. 1 of my 808s has a fader that no longer works... plus I want to unlock the secret of changing out pads on a MC-505 or Rm1x-type unit. The plastic ones.

[zendanisdead]

Do you mean general usage or repairing said things.

servicing, repairs, refurbishing

You’re probably going to need to b more specific. I bet more than half the cats on here have cracked open a piece of hardware at some point to upgrade or attempt a fix.

Personally, I feel I’m at the point where I need to learn how to solder a circuit board. 1 of my 808s has a fader that no longer works... plus I want to unlock the secret of changing out pads on a MC-505 or Rm1x-type unit. The plastic ones.

i mean someone who really KNOWS what they're doing, can open up a tape machine and fix the belts adjust the heads then even shit like replacing faulty knobs and shit like that on the controls, replacing a motor for the belt drive or some shit

[Lou-E]

i mean someone who really KNOWS what they're doing, can open up a tape machine and fix the belts adjust the heads then even shit like replacing faulty knobs and shit like that on the controls, replacing a motor for the belt drive or some shit

ok yeah that aint gonna be me. the most ive done is resoldered a new rca wires out of my turntable, the other ones had a break in the middle of the wire.
a thing that does help thou is getting a battery reader and switching it to a circuit testing mode, just to make sure if its actually the button itself or if its something else, ive saved myself lots of broken electronics by finding that just one thing had the solder dry up or break off cause of a loose button or line out, and I just had to resolder it back on.