Pioneer 6 cassette Changer

[speakerman1]

I just bought a Pioneer 6 cassette changer. with manual. Looks like new. Works fine I played it for 2 days. It is kinda neat really. 250.00 plus shipping.
Larry

 

[Skywavebe]

Hi Larry,
I am glad you are having a good time with that unit but how is it to get to the tape path for cleaning? I worked on a bunch of Mitsubishi units that were also changers and there was physically no way to get to the heads and Pinch Rollers for cleaning which when a tape jams up in the cassette well leave for a very short service life. The quality of the performance figures even when the unit was cleaned up left a lot to be desired.
But this was a Mitsubishi- I hope Pioneer put more thought in their design.

Come to think of it there were a lot of CD changers with plastic cartridges that Pioneer and Hitachi sold- the same unit with different face. The cartridges warped and disc got caught in the mechanism. I had to fix several units at at least a couple of different places. I never buy changers of any kind or dual cassettes. I was against auto reverse until I found the R888X but that has mechanical weakness as well. But is better than most others- then there are Nakamichi. I never paid that much to get into those.

 

[speakerman1]

It says to use a wet cassette cleaner. I never opened it up. I don't know how you would demag it though. It was neat to mess with though. You could rewind all the cassettes with a push of the button. I just thought it was an oddity that not to many people had.
Larry

 

[Web Police]

Cleaning is pretty easy once you take the cover off. I owned two of them decks back in the early 90's. Sadly I sold both of them. Looking back I should have kept one of them for the novelty.

 

[stuwee]

That is a really cool piece of pioneer there, I think MacGyver over at ST should be notified of it, he has the Pioneer system that can't be complete without that 'badboy changer'

Good luck, it's certainly not something you see everyday