Luxman kx102 cassette deck How to repair Suck face movement

[Gdizard]

Hello
Does anyone have experience on the Luxman KX-102 cassette deck,
Mostly the suckface servo mechanism needs repair.
Thank you for reading this

 

[oldvinyldude]

There are some threads here, about this belt change. It bothers me that I have not completed this repair-it’s a PIA, so for now I have the carriage pulled back, zip tied it, and pulled the carriage motor bus.

 

[dr*audio]

This feature was a solution for a non existent problem. I defeated it.

 

[SmileyFaceEQ]

I did the mechanism on a rx-101 amplifier. Same system.

For starters, you have to disassemble the entire mechanism starting with removing the moving face plate. Get a compartmentalized tray to keep track of screws as there are a lot.

Be careful of the microswitch as they are unobtainable.

Once you get all the way to the housing of the belt, be careful when opening as the drive gear is a series of 3 planetary gears.

Add a drop of machine oil to the motor while in there.

First time it took about 2 hours. Take plenty of pictures.

It is very doable, but plan on time and use a JIS screwdriver or grind the tip off a phillips to avoid cam out / stripping screws and work methodically.

......And it is a royal PITA.

 

[The Fuxtor]

I was also able to repair the belt in the motor, but the damn microswitch is super fragile and I managed to break 2 of them! They can be modded to work with the face sucked in but that's no fun...

 

[SmileyFaceEQ]

I added a momentary switch on mine to activate the motor as the microswitch was missing from the previous owner.

 

[Gdizard]

I added a momentary switch on mine to activate the motor as the microswitch was missing from the previous owner. View attachment 3070071

Thank you What does a momentary switch look like ? Do you recall where you found one?

 

[SmileyFaceEQ]

Every hobby shop has them. Or online. It only closes the circuit when you push on it. Effective bodge.