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(David M.) wrote:

Hi all,

I am hoping someone here can provide the info I need to modify my
system. I took three years of electronics courses in high school,
followed a couple of years later with a 2 semester course of Consumer
Electronics Servicing in college. This was ten years ago, so I'm a
little rusty, but still know which end of a soldering iron to hold...
:-)

I have a Panasonic SA-D102 bookshelf stereo system
(AM/FM/DualTAPE/CD/AUX) that I bought secondhand. One of the tape mechs
is broken, however, since it's too tall for the space I want to put it
anyway, I want to remove the tape decks completely. This is an
all-in-one unit, so it will take some work. Since I consider my time
less valuable than my money (at this point in my life), I was hoping
someone who has a schematc and/or assembly diagrams for it might be able
to tell me if it's possible, and guide me in what steps to take to
accomplish what I want to do.

I don't think you'd need a schematic to do what you want.

I figure there are some circuits i would need to clip, some wiring to
reroute and connectors to reposition.

Probably, you won't need to do anything like that. Take out the tape
mechanism, and unplug or cut any wires that prevent that from happening
(there won't be many). Tape or otherwise insulate any dangling wires
that are left over from your surgery.

The only thing might be noise pickup if you select the tape input -- but
why would you do that, if the deck is missing?

Also, another mod I need to make is to add a button to the front to
toggle on and off the backlighting of the display.

Find the wires going to the backlight. Cut one of them and stick in a
switch. Drill a hole in the front panel to mount the switch.

Isaac