suggestions for connecting to pogo pins

[retiredfeline]

I have a working keepsake from a Toshiba cassette walkman I owned back in the early 80s. It's a cassette that contains a FM tuner, turning the walkman into a radio. As you can see from the photo of the back, it has pogo pins that mate with a connector under the cassette compartment and the walkman can be switched to power the tuner and take the audio signal from there. You can see I labelled the pin functions before the walkman was recycled.

I would like to connect this "cassette" to a power supply and my entertainment amplifier as a retro accessory. I would also need to connect an antenna wire; this was provided by the headphones in the original.

Q: Any suggestions how I could connect to the pogo pins securely without much ugliness at the front? Sorry I don't have a 3D printer to make a cradle for the "cassette". In fact I hope to put it on a fold-out acrylic easel.

[Nusa]

Take some proto-board with plated-through holes, cut to size to match the side of the cassette. Drill/file out some registration notches to match the plastic protrusions next to the pogo pins. Determine which plated-through holes match up to the pins and attach wires to the protoboard for each signal. Cover with some electrical tape and clip it on with spring clips of some sort. And of course bundle your wires into a harness and connect them to your amplifier/antenna. Plenty of ways to improve on that, but quick and dirty should work.

That lock switch looks interesting. If you figure out how that works, you might be able to rig something to engage that instead of using a clip.

[retiredfeline]

Thanks. The lock switch simply held the cassette in place in the walkman compartment. It slid out a metal tab.