Sony PS-F9 Flamingo RetroTech Repair & Demo

Sony's portable battery-powered turntable from 1983 has become a highly desired and expensive collectors piece. However before I can demonstrate this one, I'll need to get it working.

Sony Global Design History Pages
https://www.sony.net/Fun/design/histo...

Ebay (well it doesn't cost anything to look)
PS-F5 http://ebay.to/2jBcaTl
PS-F9 http://ebay.to/2mzsrJF

UPDATE: After uploading the video, it occurred to to that Sony have in fact revisited their back catalogue recently with the re-launch of the Aibo robotic dog. Hopefully this will continue and we'll get to see some more modern reinterpretations of classic Sony products.

OMISSION: I forgot to mention that I pulled out any remnants of the old felt washer that was protruding from between the cogs before installing my replacement cloth tape.
Also perhaps I should have clarified that the gears unit was welded on at both ends, there were no retaining washers or e-clips that could be removed to disassemble it.

Lots of people want me to say the word Clutch to describe the gears mechanism as if somehow this will fill a void...so here we go
CLUTCH
I suspect nothing has changed.

There's also a fan website dedicated to the Sony PS-F5 that has some additional information - https://www.ps-f5.com

A few people think the Sound Crocodile drawing shown on the advert for the Sound Burger is a real thing (?!????!!!?) - It’s not, here’s a picture of the full advert https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?co...


RECORDS USED
The bicolour records used for the demonstrations were:
1) Stax Number Ones (Yellow & Red)
2) Lou Reed - Transformer (Black & Yellow)
These were limited editions from https://www.newburycomics.com/collect...
Both are now discontinued - however they have plenty of other exclusive coloured discs to choose from.

Standard black vinyl editions of both are readily available
Stax - Number Ones
Amazon US http://amzn.to/2iDygSa
Amazon UK http://amzn.to/2iAEjqq (very over priced)

Lou Reed - Transformer
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/2zUuUnb
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/2zYhRin

Back to the Future Picture disc was also from Amazon
US: http://amzn.to/2zWeXgj
UK: http://amzn.to/2hRtO57

Q) Where did the 45 with the puppet picture come from.
A) See this video for more.    • A Custom Picture Disc Vinyl Record  

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