I'm repairnig another ancient Aiwa AD6900 cassette unit.
It would make access to the deck much easier if I could remove the 3 sockets
that protrude
through the front plate. These are locked into the subchassis , the barrel
(that the plug passes through)
pokes through holes in a steel plate and then stout plastic rings pushed
over
the barrels to lock in place. Hot air gun to soften the plastic to remove ?
Any attempt to prize off these barrels would be obvious as they protrude out
the front plate.

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No photo available.
Retaining rings are thick black plastic like the back rings of LED clips but
scaled up to go over the brass barrel of the socket , rather than normal
threaded bush, and this ring then sits under a lip around this barrel
after being forced over the lip so firmly in place. Although with fair
amount of finger force you can rotate the whole socket in the hole in the
thin steel chassis plate .

N Cook wrote:
No photo available.
Retaining rings are thick black plastic like the back rings of LED clips but
scaled up to go over the brass barrel of the socket , rather than normal
threaded bush, and this ring then sits under a lip around this barrel
after being forced over the lip so firmly in place. Although with fair
amount of finger force you can rotate the whole socket in the hole in the
thin steel chassis plate .



Are you sure it`s not a bayonet fitting? There is a pretty common jack
socket used on many mixing desks so designed.

Ron(UK)

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