How To Repair a Noisy Nakamichi BX-100 Cassette Deck

Read below for a tip on how to repair noisy recordings on a Nakamichi BX-100 cassette deck.

I recently purchased a Nakamichi BX-100 cassette deck off Facebook market for $40. The seller listed the item “as is” because the unit played tapes fine, but when a tape was recorded on the machine, it would play back with crackling noise throughout, especially on the right channel.

How to repair noisy recordings on a Nakamichi BX-100 cassette deck?

To remove the noise from recordings, clean the cassette deck’s heads, capstan, pinch roller, recording input sliders and the relay switch. Read below for step by step instructions.

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