Can anyone please........?

[codswallop]

tell me where I can purchase a 3.5 mm stereo jack to 3 pin DIN jack,I've tried all over the web till my eyes go crossed. Thanks!!!!

[AlBags]

There are plenty of 5-pin DIN to jack on Bay.
No 3-pin tho.
Why not buy a 5-pin and a 3-pin plug and solder up?

[codswallop]

Hi Albags that's the problem I found.I can't quite picture what you are suggesting as an alternative.

[rojash]

I think what AlBags is suggesting is that you buy a 3 pin DIN and make your own lead (for example by swapping the 3 pin for the 5 pin on an existing lead).
http://tinyurl.com/6bz85df

[codswallop]

Hi rojash i can appreciate that,but which of the 5 wires do I ignore when soldering up to the 3pin???

[rojash]

http://www.allpinouts...x.php/DIN_Audio_5_pin

http://www.allpinouts...x.php/DIN_Audio_3_pin

[codswallop]

Thanks rojash,you certainly know how to test an old codger. Does It mean that I have to ignore one input and one output and does it matter whether it's the left pair or right pair????

[rojash]

As I've no idea what you want to use this for, It's kind of difficult to answer. T

[AlBags]

Yes .. You will be wiring to use as a playing lead .. or a recording lead. So that will be pins on one side or the other.
Tape Recorder output cable maybe?
Leave other cores trimmed back/un-connected.

[codswallop]

It's to do with my previous post about downloading music from a 50 yrs old Grundig TK5 tape recorder to a PC The output needs a 3pin DIN jack and lead to 3.5 stereo (mono) jack.I first thought that it was to a USB.at the PC end. Thanks!!!

[rojash]

Assuming that you are replacing a 5 with a 3.
Your taperecorder is obviously mono, but your computer is stereo, so connect the wires from 1 & 4 on the five pin to 1 on the three pin.
Connect the wires from 3 & 5 on the five pin to 3 on the three pin.
Connect the screen(s) to pin 2.

[codswallop]

Thanks rojash that's very clear even I should be able to do it BUT after all the very good info I've been given the tape recorder decides it doesn't want to play the tape,I don't know why I give up.Thanks anyway everyone!!!!!!!

[AlBags]

When I used to bridge the pins for mono, I used solder.

[codswallop]

Assuming I can get this ruddy tape recorder to work,who do I listen to
rojash who says pair up the wires and solder or Albags who says trim back the unwanted wires before soldering.Oh woe woe a thousand tmes woe!!!!!

[rojash]

If you trim back the wires, it will work OK, but you will be connecting to only one side of the stereo input of the computer. That's fine as long as you remember to record only from the channel that you've wired. If you wire both sets, then you'll get the identical (mono) signal on both the left and right channels, so you can just go ahead and record without having to worry. It's that simple, and the choice is yours.

[codswallop]

Cheers rojash that seems logical.Any ideas why I'm not getting any sound(play back) out or the Grundig TK5??

[rojash]

Blimey! That's asking a lot without seeing it!
Does it actually have speakers (maybe it's just a deck)?

[AlBags]

Is it 2-track or 4-track?

You can do anything you like with the wires, so long as you connect together for mono or separate for stereo. Trim back the unwanted cores.

It really is pretty easy .. I had a few reel-to reels when I was a teenager and made up leads like that to direct-record Tom Browne's Top 40 from Radio 2! I had one with a magic eye .. that could well have been a Grundig .. and a Marconiphone stereo 4-track (1-4, 2-3) or something like that.

[AlBags]

Have heads been fiddled with?
Sure you have pre-recorded tape that has not been accidentally erased?

[rojash]

Why not check out the manual (though it'll cost you)
http://tinyurl.com/6bztffe

[codswallop]

Thanks Albags and rojash,I think that this one has run its course at least till I get the tape recorder sorted.I know that without having it at hand it would be nigh on impossible to say what was wrong.I was just hoping that you would throw some quite obvious reasons at me!!!!!