Sony hcd-101 User Manual

Use a soft cloth slightly moistened with mild
detergent solution.

Take up any slack in the tape, because it may
become tangled in the deck mechanism, making it
unusable.

Tapes with recording time of more than 90 minutes
tend to strech easily, so do not repeat cycles of
playback, stop, fast-foward, and rewind operations,
or thelike.  Doing so may cause the tape to become
tangled in the deck mechanism.

To prevent a cassette from being accidentally
recorded over, break off the cassette tab from side A
or B as illustrated.

If you later want to reuse the cassette for recording,
cover the broken tab with adhesive cassette.
However, be careful not to cover the detector slots
which allow the tape player to automatically detect
the type of cassette.

Clean the heads approximately once after every 10
hours of use.
If the heads becomes very dirty, problems such as
poor sound, low volume level, drop-out in the
sound, incomplete erasure of previous recording, or
inability to record new material may occur.  Also,
make sure to clean the heads before making
important recordings and after playing old
cassettes.  Use an optional cleaning cassette.  For
details, refer to the instructions provided with the
cleaning cassette.

Use a cassette type head demagnetizer (not
supplied) to demagnetize the heads and the metal
parts that come in contact with the cassette once
every 20 to 30 hours of use.  For details, refer to the
instructions provided with the head demagnetizer.

Detector slots

Tab of
side A

Tab of
side B

Detector slots

Break off the
cassette tab of
side A

Side A