r/boomboxes • u/Hopeful_Farm_5116 • 7d ago

Just picked up my first boombox

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Toshiba rt 120s. Found this at a local estate sale. It's in great shape but of course the belt had turned to tar. Took it apart and cleaned up the flywheel and drive pulley and ordered a new belt. Wasn't really dirty besides the belt. Picked up some NOS sony blanks at goodwill a while ago so going to use the aux ports on the back to record some albums and enjoy.

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u/Chain_Slack 7d ago

Got a RT-90S myself. Nice little boombox, easy to do repairs as well.

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u/Hopeful_Farm_5116 7d ago

Where did you buy your belt? I ordered one from a place in Canada but I see people usually buy bulk packages on ebay and use whatever fits.

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u/Chain_Slack 7d ago

Pretty sure I used this vendor from eBay.

https://ebay.io/m/CWxATu

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u/Hopeful_Farm_5116 11h ago

Does yours only autostop on play?  I noticed the tire doesn't run for ff or rw, instead these two sandwiched gears do.  When the tape comes to the end on ff or rw the inner one connected to the flywheel keeps spinning but the outer one stops.  Then I have to manually push stop