A 40-year-old Sony cassette player gets The Restoration Hub's full treatment
It was the channel's only new upload, while a Rolex restored with rudimentary tools, posted back in April, keeps drawing a steady crowd.
The Restoration HubStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Fully restoring a damaged Sony cassette player after 40 years of use
One upload went up on The Restoration Hub this week, and it fits the channel's habit of picking objects with a long life behind them: a Sony cassette player, described as damaged after 40 years of use, taken apart and brought back. It passed 27,000 views in four days.
The comments are an international crowd. Some write in Russian, one in Indonesian, remembering the same model from 1995. A few viewers doubt the restoration is what it seems, and one points out that the music starts the instant the play button is touched. Another asks for a camera setting to be changed.
The tape deck is not alone among the channel's Sony pieces. A 14-inch vintage Sony TV, restored to working order and posted 17 days ago, is moving at almost the same daily pace and has gathered close to 280,000 views. Busier than both is an older favorite: "Master watchmaker restores expensive Rolex watch using only rudimentary tools," now 170 days old and still the channel's most watched video of the moment.
The channel as a whole ran a little warmer than usual, with views ahead of its ordinary daily pace while the subscriber count held at 873,000. Among the DIY and home channels of a similar size it sat in the middle this week, with eFIXX and Homeworthy far busier and Henry Keate Carpentry Shorts much quieter.
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Persis yg pernah aku punya tahun 95.
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The videos drawing views on The Restoration Hub right now
- Channel
- The Restoration Hub
- Subscribers
- 873,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 394,335
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 27,592
- Views on its first day
- 7,833
The numbers
Here are The Restoration Hub's figures for the week.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which company launched the Walkman portable cassette player in 1979?
Sony released the first Walkman, the TPS-L2, in Japan in 1979.
