Hello chaps, Tony here just signing in to say hello after a few weeks perusing the forums just loving the pictures and the info... and being of a 'certain age' ( 52 ) because of you guys I became obsessed with getting my very own boom-box and when a ?-reasonably priced-? one came along I took the plunge and I can now say without fear of contradiction that I'm now the proud owner of a wonderful device from JVC the 3090EN.
When I first saw one on the early 1980's it's lines ( not to mention the sound ) entered my soul permanently... I never got the name, just the JVC part and the TV slap bang in the middle... and for years it's visage would flicker across my memory If I ever heard the word boom-box or if I heard some nice Electro or whatever.
Talking of music and the 80's etc, I've never told this to anyone before but during the 'breakdance' phase of the mid 1980s in the UK in the absence of having a real boom-box to play with I myself became the "Human Beat Box" ( following in the heals of the Fat Boys etc ) - I remember having phrase 'Human Beat Box' written on the back of my jacket haha, Anyway So It was just me and another guy at our local shopping centre every Saturday with a few guys on a piece of lino break-dancing, I grew out of it when I purchased my first synthesiser and started making beats that way.
Anyway I wanted to use my JVC in a video for one of my own musical creations, but sad to say I have a sick JVC... I knew she was ill when I got her but I'm restoring this beauty back to full health hopefully with your help, I'm a bit of a geek/tech, I'm known as Tony-Tech to my friends, but it's more in the computer field really, websites etc, programming, but I'm learning quite a bit about CRT's and how they work etc because of my poor JVC which has a tuner fault ( I think ) which I could use some help on, plus I've found an interesting AM radio modification inside of the JVC which seemed to be an after market modification.
Plus I'm restoring the missing metal fascia which sadly was missing, it's got a sticky cassette door to but besides that it's just great.
Anyway I'll make my way around the forums and see If I can get some help with my JVC, re.. the tuner, you know I think at some point during the 1980s or whenever someone had plugged in some phono leads so forcefully that it snapped away some of the tuner casing, anyway I'll post the details as & when but I hope to share the fascia design so that others might get theirs back looking better, we'll see.
For now hello and thank you.
When I first saw one on the early 1980's it's lines ( not to mention the sound ) entered my soul permanently... I never got the name, just the JVC part and the TV slap bang in the middle... and for years it's visage would flicker across my memory If I ever heard the word boom-box or if I heard some nice Electro or whatever.
Talking of music and the 80's etc, I've never told this to anyone before but during the 'breakdance' phase of the mid 1980s in the UK in the absence of having a real boom-box to play with I myself became the "Human Beat Box" ( following in the heals of the Fat Boys etc ) - I remember having phrase 'Human Beat Box' written on the back of my jacket haha, Anyway So It was just me and another guy at our local shopping centre every Saturday with a few guys on a piece of lino break-dancing, I grew out of it when I purchased my first synthesiser and started making beats that way.
Anyway I wanted to use my JVC in a video for one of my own musical creations, but sad to say I have a sick JVC... I knew she was ill when I got her but I'm restoring this beauty back to full health hopefully with your help, I'm a bit of a geek/tech, I'm known as Tony-Tech to my friends, but it's more in the computer field really, websites etc, programming, but I'm learning quite a bit about CRT's and how they work etc because of my poor JVC which has a tuner fault ( I think ) which I could use some help on, plus I've found an interesting AM radio modification inside of the JVC which seemed to be an after market modification.
Plus I'm restoring the missing metal fascia which sadly was missing, it's got a sticky cassette door to but besides that it's just great.
Anyway I'll make my way around the forums and see If I can get some help with my JVC, re.. the tuner, you know I think at some point during the 1980s or whenever someone had plugged in some phono leads so forcefully that it snapped away some of the tuner casing, anyway I'll post the details as & when but I hope to share the fascia design so that others might get theirs back looking better, we'll see.
For now hello and thank you.
