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Originally Posted by Kiwick
i have this same radio!
Autovox car radios were unusual in many ways, i have some 70s Autovox Melody cassette car stereos and their mechanism is excellent and absolutely unique! you have to push the "joystick button" once to engage the tape, then move it left and right to rewind and fast forward, and then push it again to eject the tape...
This is one of the very few mechanism that can be trusted not to chew your tapes even after 30 years and thousands of hours of use... the only thing they usually need to work like new is a belt and a drop of oil on the motor bearings and on the shaft of the brass idler pulley
By the way, Were Autovox radio available in the US back then?
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Ho anche io questa radio!
Le autoradio Autovox sono molto originali, ho diversi autoradio con mangianastri stereo Autovox Melody anni '70, il meccanismo del mangiacassette e' stranissimo! per far partire la cassetta bisogna premere il tasto "joystick" multifunzione, muovendolo a destra e sinistra si manda avanti ed indietro il nastro, e premendolo di nuovo si espelle la cassetta
Questo e' uno dei pochi meccanismi che non rischiano di stracciare i nastri anche dopo oltre 30 anni e migliaia di ore di uso... le uniche attenzioni di cui hanno bisogno sono l'eventuale sostituzione della cinghia ed un goccetto d'olio sulle boccole del motore e sull'albero della puleggia di rinvio in ottone
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E 'unbelievable sometimes how, after so many years and after the flood, the radio after a good cleaning and a review of the components, functions perfectly. also we Italians, many years ago, building good electronic devices. I had on car of my father Autovox car compac cassette paid, I remember, 140,000 lire. was kind of pull the lever with the multifunction as you say, but if operations was too fast.... zac! she ate the tape.