The Bush KCS-317 cassette recorder/player is a recent, budget, device for playing, and recording, audio cassette tapes.
chebe picked one up during lockdown to digitise old tapes, but discovered that it was no longer functional.
I recently fell down the Steve’s Electronic Repair Shop rabbit-hole, and the ‘Cassette Tape Player. How it works and how to repair.’ video in particular emboldened me to sort out that player. So I found a speed calibration test tape which has 15 mins of 3,000 Hz sine wave (actually 3,010-3,020Hz), and instructions on how to use it. The tape showed the player to be running fast, and as if I needed more encouragement, the buttons, the big chunky physical plastic buttons got stuck in play.
See how this unit was made functional again in the post here.
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