Compact living room stereo with cassette?

[Joerg]

Only 10 years old? The deck was probably by an OEM. The same drive
probably was used in other singles or boomboxes. You might try MCM,
Newark's sibling distributor for the repair trade.

I still use cassettes to record radio programs, which results in a
hobby of repairing cheap chinese walkman players and shoebox recorders.
They all have the same guts (a lot of them are built in the same factory
or at least the same town). They all use variants of the same Japanese
company's single chip design, use the same motor, and drive mechanics.

Dang, I should have snapped a photo. Now I have to open it all up again
to get the motor data. But chances are some of the other rollers are
also worn. Then there is a loose belt, a wobbly plastic idler, and so
on. Not sure if it's really worth a repair attempt.

This one seems not to be an OEM. They really spared no expense and
digitized just about everything. Fancy flex cables everywhere, a fat AD
converter in the middle of this cassette unit, I think it said SonicBlue
on the board or something. And they are gone :-(

While they did use some cost-cutting tricks such as using phenolic
boards this radio appears to be a bit over-engineered. Unfortunately the
firmware in it is at the same time a bit buggy, some things appear to
not have been thought through very well.