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Aiwa

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This yanwu 406 appeared on the chinese market in the late 70s.It includes a "slot deck" like several lasonics.
Have a look at the unusual colour.You see stereo led meters.




Its brother was sold with only one led meter instead of the second drive.



The protection bars are really awesome!
They reminding at 60s street cruiser shapes.

this model was also sold as "spring thunder"-k66
 

Fatdog

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Wow! It's like they made one boombox out of many different ones. Some of the "other" boxes I see in its design are:

Sanyo M9935 - chrome grille guards
Sharp GF-9696 - cassette door
Lasonic TRC-931 - cassette slot
MacDonald - front cabinet design
 

Aiwa

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another strange one is the shanghai14:

it doesn`t seem to be a rc550 hunter... :lol:



nontheless it is an interesing and rare box.
 

Aiwa

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This mono spring thunder 3p13 has been built like a brick ,a super solid radio .
Zijan from the chinese forum owns one.



I got some pics from Zijan.
have a look:




 

Fatdog

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That Shanghai mono reminds me of a GE for some reason. :hmmm:
 

Old school Scott

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Very interesting.
The orange one looks like it's made out of the soft plastic that toys are made out of.
I wonder how heavy it is?

Cheers OSS :afro:
 

Aiwa

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here`s a strange emerson.
it has got two fitting additional boxes ...never spotted this one again...

 

Aiwa

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....another very rare emerson,I only found this poor brochure picture ----

 

Aiwa

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this world wt327 needs 16 d-cells!



It looks like diy -made - but it`s a nice and very loud 8track boomer!

weights 15kgs!



not a mini!

In the chinese forum they say : frightening loud!
 

Tiko

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Wow! It's like they made one boombox out of many different ones. Some of the "other" boxes I see in its design are:

Sanyo M9935 - chrome grille guards
Sharp GF-9696 - cassette door
Lasonic TRC-931 - cassette slot
MacDonald - front cabinet design

And what about the colour?
 
This yanwu 406 appeared on the chinese market in the late 70s.It includes a "slot deck" like several lasonics.
Have a look at the unusual colour.You see stereo led meters.


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Its brother was sold with only one led meter instead of the second drive.

[ Image ]

The protection bars are really awesome!
They reminding at 60s street cruiser shapes.

this model was also sold as "spring thunder"-k66

the orange one seems indian i wonder why !!!

!!!
 

bill

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those are pretty interesting.
i find it pretty hard to believe the first two are from the seventies. i mean i am surprised that they would have been using leds on boxes like that back then. i am really surprised at the orange one.
i mean that box with the spring thunder name on it looks seventies. looks like a copy of a german mono box from the seventies.
cool boxes.
 

Aiwa

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i find it pretty hard to believe the first two are from the seventies. i mean i am surprised that they would have been using leds on boxes like that back then.........


Yep- I asked twice about the date in the leowood forum -the date is verified .They have brochures.1978.They found it also on the housing,mould stamp and on speaker printings.
This "LED -APPEARING"theme has been discussed several times
It`s quite a neighborhood legend and a hearsey that led`s appeared so late.There are more than 150 boxes (in bbdb)with verified manufacturing date BEFORE 1980.so:Unfounded rumors say that led`s appeared after 1980.

single led -meter rows :

asahi-rd802 :1979
g.e.-3-5257 :1976
hitachi-trk8000 :1979
hitachi-trk8005: 1979
hitachi-trk8110 : 1979 (included lcd timer!)
panasonic-rx5090 :1979
sharp-gf6363 :1979
sony-cfs-v2 :1978
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double led-meter rows:


examples:
aiko-atpr550:1979
graetz-src400:1978
hitachi-trk8020:(included 7 segment led)-1978
panasonic-rq4050:1978
panasonic-rq4370 :1978
pioneer-sk71:1978
sony-cfs65,cfs67,cfs81:1978
wilco1047:1978
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so what means "verified" manufacturing dates in this case?
either :
sales bill.
brochures.
transformer stamp.
loudspeaker stamp.
moulded date stamps in housing.
back side date tags.mostly in battery case.
service manuals do not count :they could have been printed earlier or later in the total span.
The production spans of early boomboxes :up to 7 years.(so the print date of date of the service manual does not show the exact mfd date)


Single LED`s appeared often in boxes (aiwa tpr950:1978-1984).